Verbomania ESL


Book Description

Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs together give you the power to express more complicated thoughts. With recordings at half speed and normal speed, Verbomania ESL can quickly help you improve your English fluency and pronunciation. Verbomania ESL was created for English as a Second Language intermediate and advanced level students that have the bases to start speaking English, but that are lacking fluency. FAST and EASY! In Verbomania ESL, you will learn how to use 100 irregular verbs--in the present, past, and past participle forms, in context--together with the 22 most commonly used auxiliary verbs, and the 1000 most-used words in English. This book also offers some general information about the pronunciation of regular verbs in the past and past participle forms. Verbomania ESL can also be used to complement any level of English to get a better understanding of regular, irregular, and auxiliary verbs from the beginning. This is the bilingual English-Spanish Edition. If you would like Verbomania ESL translated to another language, please send your suggestion to: [email protected]




English-Spanish Dialogues II for Advanced Spanish and ESL


Book Description

English-Spanish Dialogues II is a collection of over 60 conversations ranging from fundamental topics (e.g., Beach, Novels, and Garden) to academic (e.g., Philosophy, Algebra, and Chemistry). Revolving around a middle-class family, these conversations are presented in an easily accessible bilingual format ideal for classroom use, allowing the student to attain authentic tone, rhythm, inflection and volume in context. Throughout is a series of cartoons meant not only to enhance the vocabulary, but also to bring life to the dialogues. Choosing the dialogues most practical and interesting, the student can be exposed to an ample variety of useful vocabulary—lasting over a year at the rate of one dialogue per week. The introduction presents a variety of standard and innovative methods for presenting the material. Our goal is to breathe life into language learning.




English-Spanish Dialogues for Advanced Spanish and ESL


Book Description

Spanish-English Dialogues is a collection of over 60 conversations ranging from fundamental topics (e.g., phone calls, introductions, and tools) to academic (e.g., Renaissance, Copernicus, and Newton). Revolving around a middle-class family, these conversations are presented in an easily accessible bilingual format ideal for classroom use, allowing the student to attain authentic tone, rhythm, inflection and volume in context. Throughout is a series of cartoons meant not only to enhance the vocabulary, but also to bring life to the dialogues. Choosing the dialogues most practical and interesting, the student can be exposed to an ample variety of useful vocabulary—lasting over a year at the rate of one dialogue per week. The introduction presents a variety of standard and innovative methods for presenting the material. Our goal is to breathe life into language learning.




Verbomania


Book Description

Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs together give you the power to express more complicated thoughts. Verbomania ESL can quickly help you improve your English fluency and pronunciation. Verbomania ESL was created for English as a Second Language intermediate and advanced level students that have the bases to start speaking English, but that are lacking fluency. FAST and EASY! In Verbomania ESL, you will learn how to use and pronounce 100 irregular verbs--in the present, past, and past participle forms, in context--together with the 22 most commonly used auxiliary verbs, and the 1000 most-used words in English. The book also offers some general information about the pronunciation of regular verbs in the past and past participle forms. Verbomania ESL can also be used to complement any level of English to get a better understanding of regular, irregular, and auxiliary verbs from the beginning, and to learn the 1000 most-used words in English with good pronunciation. This is the Bilingual English-Spanish Edition. If you would like Verbomania ESL translated to another language, please send your suggestion to [email protected]




The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style


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Survey of English usage, grammar, and style offering guidance on almost any writing problem imaginable.







The Yahoo! Style Guide


Book Description

WWW may be an acronym for the World Wide Web, but no one could fault you for thinking it stands for wild, wild West. The rapid growth of the Web has meant having to rely on style guides intended for print publishing, but these guides do not address the new challenges of communicating online. Enter The Yahoo! Style Guide. From Yahoo!, a leader in online content and one of the most visited Internet destinations in the world, comes the definitive reference on the essential elements of Web style for writers, editors, bloggers, and students. With topics that range from the basics of grammar and punctuation to Web-specific ways to improve your writing, this comprehensive resource will help you: - Shape your text for online reading - Construct clear and compelling copy - Write eye-catching and effective headings - Develop your site's unique voice - Streamline text for mobile users - Optimize webpages to boost your chances of appearing in search results - Create better blogs and newsletters - Learn easy fixes for your writing mistakes - Write clear user-interface text This essential sourcebook—based on internal editorial practices that have helped Yahoo! writers and editors for the last fifteen years—is now at your fingertips.










Loan Phonology


Book Description

For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword nativization provides a direct window for observing how acoustic cues are categorized in terms of the distinctive features relevant to the L1 phonological system as well as for studying L1 phonological processes in action and thus to the true synchronic phonology of L1. The collection of essays presented in this volume provides an overview of the complex issues phonologists face when investigating this phenomenon and, more generally, the ways in which unfamiliar sounds and sound sequences are adapted to converge with the native language’s sound pattern. This book is of interest to theoretical phonologists as well as to linguists interested in language contact phenomena. As of January 2019, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.