Czech Vocabulary for English Speakers - 5000 Words


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T&P BOOKS VOCABULARIES are intended to help you learn, memorize, and review foreign words. The dictionary contains over 5000 commonly used words. Recommended as additional support material to any language course. Meets the needs of beginners and advanced learners of foreign languages. Convenient for daily use, reviewing sessions and self-testing activities. Allows you to assess your current vocabulary. This book can also be used by foreigners to learn English. THIS REVISED EDITION (American English, July 2013) contains 155 topics including: Basic Concepts, Numbers, Colors, Months, Seasons, Units of Measurement, Clothing & Accessories, Food & Nutrition, Restaurant, Family Members, Relatives, Character, Feelings, Emotions, Diseases, City, Town, Sightseeing, Shopping, Money, House, Home, Office, Working in the Office, Import & Export, Marketing, Job Search, Sports, Education, Computer, Internet, Tools, Nature, Countries, Nationalities and more ... SPECIAL FEATURES of T&P Books bilingual vocabularies: Words are arranged according to their meaning, not alphabetically. Content is presented in three columns to facilitate the reviewing and self-testing processes. Each theme is composed of small blocks of similar lexical units. The vocabulary offers a convenient and simple transcription for each foreign word. IF YOU HAVE any question, suggestion or feedback, please contact us: [email protected]. Ref. BODFR




A Frequency Dictionary of Czech


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A Frequency Dictionary of Czech is an invaluable tool for all learners of Czech, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on data from a 100 million word corpus and evenly balanced between spoken, fiction, non-fiction and newspaper texts, the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part of speech indexes. All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence with English translation and an indication of register variation. The dictionary also contains twenty thematically organised and frequency-ranked lists of words on a variety of topics, such as family, food and drink and transport. A Frequency Dictionary of Czech enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way. It is also a rich resource for language teaching, research, curriculum design, and materials development. A CD version is available to purchase separately. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.




Readings in Speech Recognition


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Speech recognition by machine : a review / D.R. Reddy -- The value of speech recognition systems / W.A. Lea -- Digital representations of speech signals / R.W. Schafer and L.R. Rabiner -- Comparison of parametric representations for monosyllabic word recognition in continuously spoken sentences / S.B. Davis and P. Mermelstein -- Vector quantization / R.M. Gray -- A joint synchrony-mean-rate model of auditory speech processing / S. Seneff -- Isolated and connected word recognition : theory and selected applications / L.R. Rabiner and S.E. Levinson -- Minimum prediction residual principle applied to speech recognition / F. Itakura -- Dynamic programming algorithm optimization for spoken word recognition / S. Hakoe and S. Chiba -- Speaker-independent recognition of isolated words using clustering techniques / L.R. Rabiner [and others]Two-level DP-matching : a dynamic programming-based pattern matching algorithm for connected word recognition / H. Sakoe -- The use of a one-stage dynamic pr ...




Italian Vocabulary for English Speakers - 7000 Words


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7000-WORD ENGLISH-ITALIAN VOCABULARY The knowledge of approximately 7000 words makes it possible to understand authentic Italian texts. Combining vocabulary with conversational practice, you will be able to produce fluent phrases and express your thoughts smoothly and accurately. You will find it easy and natural to talk about various everyday topics. This knowledge and ability will help you to achieve the language level where you may confidently say: "Yes! I do speak Italian." T&P Books vocabularies are intended to help you learn, memorize and review foreign words The dictionary contains over 7000 commonly used words Recommended as additional support material to any language course Meets the needs of both beginners and advanced learners Convenient for daily use, reviewing sessions and self-testing activities Allows you to assess your current vocabulary This book can also be used by foreign learners of English Special features of T&P Books bilingual vocabularies: Words are arranged according to their meaning, not alphabetically Content is presented in three columns to facilitate the reviewing and self-testing processes Each theme is composed of small blocks of similar lexical units The vocabulary offers a convenient and simple transcription for each foreign word This revised edition (03.2018) contains 198 topics: Basic Concepts, Numbers, Colors, Months, Seasons, Units of Measurement, Clothing & Accessories, Food & Nutrition, Restaurant, Family Members, Relatives, Character, Feelings, Emotions, Diseases, City, Town, Sightseeing, Shopping, Money, House, Home, Office, Working in the Office, Import & Export, Marketing, Job Search, Sports, Education, Computer, Internet, Tools, Nature, Countries, Nationalities and more ... Our Italian collection includes also vocabularies of 3000, 5000 and 9000 words. All these titles are available as printed books and e-books. For more information please visit www.tpbooks.com. If you have any question, suggestion or feedback, please contact us: [email protected] Italian dictionary, Italian vocabulary, Italian phrasebook, learning Italian, basic Italian, books in Italian, Italian language










English as a Global Language


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Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.




French English Bilingual Visual Dictionary


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Learn more than 6000 French words and phrases with this easy to use dictionary that features illustrations of objects and scenes from everyday life.




The New Century Book of Facts


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Includes music.




Defining the World


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Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, this volume tells the story of Samuel Johnson's endeavor to create an authoritative English dictionary. Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure--his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.