English Language

Teaching your child to read is monstrously important, and there's no better way to do it than with everyday opportunities for laughter and play. Bringing Up Bookmonsters is full of fun ways to build literacy at home - no flashcards or timers required! Feed your budding bookmonster's brain as you: Turn storytime into playtime to build comprehension; get giggling with games and jokes that reinforce spelling; converse at family meals with varied vocabulary; satisfy your bookmonster's cravings with books they are sure to devour; and more!

Dr. Gary Chapman identifies five basic languages of love and then guides couples towards a better understanding of their unique languages of love. Learn to speak and understand your mate's love language, and in no time you will be able to effectively love and truly feel loved in return. Skillful communication is within your grasp!

The Zen Art of Confidence. Become 10 feet tall and Bullet-Proof Stop making decisions based on fear of failure, rejection, anxiety, and judgment. Break out of your shell and live boldly. All the goals you have, all the people you are jealous of, and the life you want to live are unlocked by one simple key: Bulletproof Confidence. Everybody wants it, but how do you get it? Not just “fake it ‘til you make it” or “just smile more.” Bulletproof Confidence is filled with real, actionable advice for your life TODAY. It’s not generic, borderline useless advice you can read in any blog ...

Author Dr. Etel Leit is one of the foremost experts in the world on teaching parents sign language for babies and American Sign Language for kids. She has appeared on NBC Nightly News, KTLA Morning Show and teaches the Master’s program at USC. In You Are My SignShine, children’s sign language and parenting advice authority Etel Leit, MS, draws on years of experience improving family communication by teaching sign language to parents of hearing children, including pre-verbal babies, toddlers and children with special needs, such as autism, Down Syndrome and cerebral palsy. In this ...

When 7'2" Chinese basketball prodigy Li Ren is drafted to the San Diego Sol, the entire league is watching—but the only one who truly sees him is Imani Blake, the team's brilliant multilingual interpreter 🌍💬. She's the daughter of a diplomat. Fluent in five languages. Determined to keep things strictly professional. He's quiet, enigmatic, and the most sought-after rookie in the league 🏀—but around her, his carefully controlled facade begins to crack. Their sizzling chemistry speaks volumes, even when words fail 🔥. Through stolen glances during press conferences and late-...

A flower of mystical insight from 14c. England, this book records the visions and prescient theological world-view of Julian, an anchoress at Norwich. Her unique and visceral retelling of both the birthing and the dying of Christ, the first book to be written in English by a woman, has never been duplicated in the clarity and eloquence of its language. Here, preserving the humility of the original in a modern idiom, is a metered poetic version of her revelations: …she who’s Mother of our Savior Is mother of all who shall be saved; And our Savior our very Mother, In whom we are endlessly...

Learn Jamaican Patois For Beginners is perfect for people who have no other time to learn a new language! It contains over 1000 common Jamaican phrases, that will help you in everyday life! Each phrase is pronounced slowly and multiple times, so that you can really learn the correct pronunciation! Each phrases' equivalent English translation is also provided!

When Marcus’s sister said, "One of these days you’re going to meet someone that takes your breath away”, he wasn't prepared for it to happen at a drag show. But the blue-eyed stranger in the corner following along with the ASL interpreter had him mesmerized. Sam’s eyes were drawn across the room like a magnet the first time he saw Marcus, but was he willing to give up a future filled with gay cruises and adult bunk beds with his best friend Travis, for some hot, closeted guy that couldn't even speak sign language? Maybe...

This is an improved and revised edition of a friendly self-help grammar for those who wish to learn Bible Greek. Presented in English with large print for easy reading and study, GREEK GRAMMAR provides an enjoyable step-by-step method of understanding of what has been perceived by many to be a difficult language. One will find, however, that Greek is not as difficult as it may seem. In fact, after just a few lessons, some who have embarked on this project have been able to achieve an effective working knowledge of the Greek language. For those who have had an understanding of Greek when ...

Start speaking Japanese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Ultimate Getting Started with Japanese Box Set, a completely new way to learn Japanese with ease! Ultimate Getting Started with Japanese Box Set will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Japanese friends.

At the very heart of the message of the New Testament is a Hebraic approach to the Almighty and His Good News. This approach is so vastly different from the Greek (and modern, Western) mindset, that without some basic appreciation of this foundational truth and perspective, the New Testament can be so totally misunderstood and misused as to render it’s central message null and void. This book looks at the question of the original language of the NT and what impact this has on the message contained therein.

In the voices of 20 landmark memoirists - including New York Times best-selling authors Cheryl Strayed, Sue Monk Kidd, and Pat Conroy - a definitive book on the craft of autobiographical writing, indispensable for amateur and professional writers alike. For fans of Mary Karr's The Art of Memoir and Judith Barrington's Writing the Memoir, this follow-up to editor Meredith Maran's acclaimed writers' handbook, Why We Write, offers inspiration, encouragement, and pithy, practical advice for bloggers, journal-keepers, aspiring essayists, and memoirists.

Few other issues have separated the church more than the issue of tongues. Sam Storms focuses on this controversial subject with his signature insights to theology and the gifts of the spirit. What does the gift giver say about the gift He gave? Storms seeks to bring balance to this subject in The Language of Heaven as he wrestles with this sensitive issue experientially as well as theologically.

Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day offers a lively and entertaining method for adding a more impressive list of words to your everyday speech, and for learning how to use them effortlessly and accurately. Besides giving definitions, this invaluable guide also provides root meanings and elements of words so you can increase your vocabulary base by thousands of exciting new words and use them with aplomb in sentences.

How To Pray Perfectly Powerful Prayers by Speaking in Tongues™ is an easy-to-read guide for any Christian, whether you've already spoken in tongues or not. This book helps you build intimacy with the Holy Spirit, empowering you to walk in God's power, hear His voice, and contribute to building His Kingdom on earth. Perfect for teens, women, and men in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond—even into their 100s! Inside, you’ll: 🗣️ Learn how to start speaking in tongues and build stamina that reveals spiritual gifts. 🙏 Find out how to pray powerful prayers that get results. ...

After years of teaching intermediate students who never seemed to improve, I decided to find out what the problem was. Essentially, intermediate students get stuck because learning at this stage is a different type of learning than at the beginner stage. You have mastered the grammar and the basic vocabulary, but most textbooks just carry on like nothing has changed. However, what you need at the intermediate stage is not just more dry grammar and lists of vocabulary.

Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our common language. Author, Richard Lederer, collects some of the worst—and funniest—English language errors ever committed to print. From legendary student screwups to horrible headlines and cringe-worthy advertising copy, Lederer shares a treasure trove of laugh-out-loud flubs and gaffes worthy of a Pullet Surprise.

Language is more than words—it is a recursive system of truth, power, and structure. In Word Calculator, Ronald Joseph Legarski, Jr. unveils a semantic framework that quantifies meaning through linguistic recursion. From graphemes to glyphs, from morphemes to AI systems, this book introduces a universal method to calculate, verify, and anchor language across all fields of human and machine intelligence. Featuring codoglyphs, semantic weight indexes, polarity maps, and recursive error correction matrices, this is a vital tool for developers, educators, policymakers, theologians, and ...

Appalachian Mountain Handbook reveals the life and culture of people born and raised in the mountains of Appalachia. This includes their Language. Superstitions. Ghost Stories. Remedies.Cures. Potions. Sayings. Euphremisms. Growing Food. Fields and Streams. Games they Play. Favorite Food Recipes. Drinks they Make.

This book is organized to teach Java to beginners, and it guides readers to master writing code by working with more than 100 examples, exercises, and assignments. Prior experience in coding is not required in order to start this book. It explains Java in an easy to understand way, with simple coding examples and many exercises that make it interesting and helpful to the reader even if they have no prior experience in programming. It is difficult for any expert software developer to believe that anyone can learn to program by only reading books. All experts build their experiences by doing ...