October 2011 | Text Language List

Spanish for Dummies Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I like this book. A lot. It's one of my favorites for learning and reviewing bite sized pieces of Spanish. I agree with the reviewer who said that it should not be used alone. Actually, what I am finding after trying to learn Spanish for business for about a year, is that there is NO single resource...

Songs of West Africa: A Collection of over 80 Traditional West African Folk Songs and Chants in 6 Languages with Translations, Annotations Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I wasn't sure what to expect when I bought this, but this book turned out to be really fun to read! Part storytelling, part anthropology, part language lessons, the book introduces not just songs from six different tribal groups but a sense of how they see the world. The songs are translated, plus the...

Children's Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide (Library and Information Science Text Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This was a prescribed text in one of my graduate classes and is one of my favorite texts. Unlike many textbooks prescribed at graduate level, this book is written in an easily accessible manner, is not steeped in jargon, and makes for interesting reading. Many of the textbooks I have read at both undergraduate...

Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication: A Self-Study Course and Reference Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an excelent book. Having gone through a course in elementary Japanese, I wanted a book to quickly review the basic grammar and speech patterns. This little book does a marvelous job. It explains all the main patterns concisely, yet sufficiently. The organization and clarity of the book are its...

501 English Verbs: with CD-ROM (Barron's Language Guides) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I purchased this book to review for our language school's ESL program. Though it is a useful tool in presenting all of the complexities of the English verb, as a practical tool for ESL students I cannot recommend it. It is needlessly complicated in its format. The book contains unusual and infrequent...

Street Italian 1: The Best of Italian Slang (Street Language) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you're learing Italian, even if you're not planning to go to Italy - you may benefit from watching Italian movies. You can learn slang from the movies, too, but having a book which some common expressions spelled out may help you, too. It will also help you if you're socializing with Italian crowd...

Assessment And Treatment of Articulation And Phonological Disorders in Children: A Dual-level Text Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I received the book quicker than expected. I have started using it for the upcoming fall semester. There were very few highlights.Click Here to see more reviews about: Assessment And Treatment of Articulation And Phonological Disorders in Children: A Dual-level TextThe second edition of Assessment and...

Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I got decent grades in college Spanish; two "A-‘s" and a "B+." However, when I needed to actually speak Spanish, I was lost. I couldn't say much except "Mas cervezas, por favor (More beer, please)!" "Madrial's Magic Key", along with the expensive (but quite worth it) Pimsleur tapes, have corrected...

Spanish Idioms (Barron's Foreign Language Guides: Idiom Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is THE BOOK to consult when it comes to Spanish idioms. It is the best among all others. The book is very well organized; alphabetically, guide words appear at the top of the page and for each word, there is an English translation and after that appear idioms that contain that word. There is...

Teach Business English (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've read and bought many business English books but have never found one as useful as this one. Sylvie Donna specifically details many, many excellent in-class exercises and even provides the level targeted (elementary, intermediate, etc) AND how long each activity is expected to take. Each activity...

Chinese (Mandarin) I Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've gone through all 3 full sets of Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese. If you'd have asked me immediately after I'd finished them what I thought of the series, I'd have given it 5 stars without hesitation. However, after spending the past year trying to advance past what I've learned via the Pimsleur series,...

Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Andrea McDowell is Professor at the Seton Hall University School of Law, New Jersey, being specialized in legal history and property. One of her recent concerns is the American legal history. Let's remind some important data about her Egyptological career. She received her Ph.D. from the University of...

Ultimate Chinese (Mandarin) Beginner-Intermediate (CD/Book) (Ultimate Beginner-Intermediate) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The only portion this series misses is the written, but that's not what they were aiming for. I have lived in Shanghai and traveled to various parts of China. The voices on CD are very realistic and relaxed, helping the student to understand ordinary speakers - rather than the "standard" Beijing pronunciation....

Month-by-Month Trait-Based Writing Instruction: Ready-to-Use Lessons and Strategies for Weaving Morning Messages, Read-Alouds, Mentor Texts, and More ... Writing Program (Month-By-Month (Scholastic)) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Every year brings on more new ideas to try in the classroom. While I knew the importance of writers' workshop, morning message, mini-lessons and genre awareness, including these in my daily lesson plans was a monumental task. This resource gave me actual samples of all of these as well as suggestions...

Assessment and Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders in Children: A Dual-Level Text with Resource Manual Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I used this text as an undergraduate, and later when teaching the Phonological and Articulation Disorders course as a TA, so I have gotten to know it well.Strengths:- Information on structural anomalies and their impact on articulation- Emphasis on the difference between phonological and articulation...

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This excellent descriptive grammar is currently the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of English grammar available. For someone familiar with an older generation of English grammars, even grammars written by linguists, this work represents a significant rethinking of they way English is described....

American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Wesleyan Poetry) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book presents the work of 10 important contemporary poets: Rae Armantrout, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lucie Brock-Broido, Jorie Graham, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, Susan Howe, Ann Lauterbach, and Harryette Mullen. Each is represented by a sample of work, a brief poetics statement, and...