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Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Latvian ? Learning Latvian can be fun with this picture book. In this book you will find the following features: Latvian Alphabets. Latvian Words. English Translations.
Author : Margrieta S.
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2020-01-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780369600936
Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Latvian ? Learning Latvian can be fun with this picture book. In this book you will find the following features: Latvian Alphabets. Latvian Words. English Translations.
Author : Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2002-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0547541015
A woman’s true account of eighteen years as a Soviet prisoner: “Not even Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich matches it.”—The New York Times Book Review In the late 1930s, Eugenia Ginzburg was a wife and mother, a schoolteacher and writer, and a longtime loyal Communist Party member. But like millions of others during Stalin’s reign of terror, she was arrested—on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist counter-revolutionary—and sentenced to prison. With sharp detail and an indefatigable spirit, Ginzburg recounts her arrest and the eighteen harrowing years she endured in Soviet prisons and labor camps, including two in solitary confinement. Her memoir is “a compelling personal narrative of survival” (The New York Times Book Review)—and one of the most important documents of Stalin’s brutal regime. “Deeply significant…intensely personal and passionately felt.”—Time “Probably the best account that has ever been published of…the prison and camp empire of the Stalin era.”—Book World Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward
Author : Blake Eskin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2003-05-27
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 9780393324457
An account of the rise and fall of the author of Fragments.
Author : Tereze Svilane
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1444134655
Are you looking for a complete course in Latvian which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Latvian will guarantee success! The course is structured in thematic units and the emphasis is placed on communication, so that you effortlessly progress from introducing yourself and dealing with everyday situations, to using the phone and talking about work. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B2 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party. Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design, complete online audio support and interactive features: NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. GRAMMAR TIPS Easy-to-follow building blocks to give you a clear understanding. USEFUL VOCABULARY Easy to find and learn, to build a solid foundation for speaking. DIALOGUES Read and listen to everyday dialogues to help you speak and understand fast. PRONUNCIATION Don't sound like a tourist! Perfect your pronunciation before you go. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it. AUDIO Access the audio for this course for free by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app or streaming it on library.teachyourself.com The course is also available to purchase as a book (9781444106046).
Author : Philip Nolan
Publisher : Hachette Books Ireland
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1444743651
In this hilarious, no-holds-barred account, journalist Philip Nolan packs his bag (maximum 10kg, please) and takes us on an adventure that is not for the faint-hearted as he flies with Europe 's biggest low-cost airline. Using Ryanair destinations as a route planner, we grab our boarding passes and fight for the first available seat as we travel with him to towns we've never heard of ( Tampere and Wroclaw , anyone?) and to cities we've always wanted to visit. From watching the pilgrims completing the Camino in Santiago de Compostela to cheering with the fans in Frankfurt during the World Cup, from having his alpha waves channelled at a spa in Austria to a little soul cleansing at the baths at Lourdes, from the all-night party that is Riga to the eerie hush of Beauvais on a slow Monday night, we are treated to a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the quirks and foibles of a continent. Ryanair has opened up Europe 's treasures, and a few complete dumps too, in a way never before possible. From Biarritz to Blackpool to Bratislava , Pau to Pisa to Porto, Vienna to Valencia to Venice , Philip Nolan completes a whirlwind tour of the continent he calls Ryanland. The journey is whimsical, wistful and laugh-out-loud funny, as we travel on a spellbinding no-frills odyssey.
Author : Robert Eugen Zachrisson
Publisher :
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Germanic philology
ISBN :
Includes section "Reviews".
Author : Eva S.
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780369600196
Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Dutch ? Learning Dutch can be fun with this picture book. In this book you will find the following features: Dutch Alphabets. Dutch Words. English Translations.
Author : Kelly Cherry
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 1991-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807116203
In January, 1965, in the café of the Hotel Metropol, in Moscow, the young American poet Kelly Cherry met the young Latvian composer Imant Kalnin. They fell in love—and began an alliance of the heart and mind sustained over twenty-five years in the face of threats from the Central Committee, surveillance by the KGB, confiscation of mail by censors, and eve “disinformation.” Their passionate friendship, growing out of a recognition of each other’s artistic destiny, also survived the hazards of other relationships—romantic and familial—and the professional demands of two careers, and sheer distance. There was more at stake here than just love. Or maybe just love is exactly what this romance was about: the deeply felt attempt to learn whether and why and how to love justly. What can love mean, when the world in which it is expressed and experienced is corrupt? In The Exiled Heart, Kelly Cherry takes on that profound question, seeking answers to it at every level—theological, political, artistic, personal. In this book that is in the great tradition of Dostoevsky and Anna Akhmatova and at the same time startlingly original and American, she translates experience into a work of classic dimensions. Interpreting in extraordinary prose her firsthand encounters with Latvia and Latvians, describing a weekend at an underground hotel in Leningrad, or recounting misadventures with the Soviet consulate in London (the same cast kept changing characters), she pursues a philosophical quest. The Exiled Heart is a nonfiction narrative journey that, of necessity, makes metaphorical excursions into philosophical territory as Cherry reflects on the nature of justice, the idea of utopia, morality in art, the meaning of despair, the problem of suffering, the possibility of forgiveness. As the author explains in the first chapter, “I didn’t know, in 1965, where that train was taking me: to Moscow, I thought, but equally to my heart and my conscience. This book is a kind of log, a moral travelogue if you will, of a course that was set then and there, deep into heartland.” These brilliantly conceived and beautifully written side trips broaden an autobiographical story into a tale of political exile and personal covenant that is almost a paradigm for the history of the Cold War and for the faith in the future that has always led people and nations to strive for independence. Beginning with a girl and a boy in a Moscow café, in the end this stunning book is about nothing less that the soul’s search for freedom.
Author : William Chisholm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902722868X
This is a comparative study on the subject of interrogativity, presenting broad and narrow attributes on this subject in diverse languages: Russian, Mandarin, Georgian, Bengali, Bantu, Japanese, West Greenlandic and Ute. Each contribution presents, first the basic facts about the language in question, its more recent provenience, facts about numbers of speakers, writing systems, and related areal and sociolinguistic points. An overview of the typological hallmarks follows together with a sketch of the grammar broadly construed. Finally, the grammar of interrogativity is described and the semantics and pragmatics of it are explored.
Author : Atikah S.
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780369600592
Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Hausa ? Learning Hausa can be fun with this picture book. In this book you will find the following features: Hausa Alphabets. Hausa Words. English Translations.