Language Study

Best friend, old friend, good friend, BFF, college roommate, neighbor, workplace confidante: women's friendships are lifelines in times of trouble and support systems for daily life. A friend can be like a sister, daughter, mother, mentor, therapist, or confessor - or she can be all of these at once. She's seen you at your worst and celebrates you at your best. Figuring out what it means to be friends is, in the end, no less than figuring out how we connect to other people.

How Does Accurate Word Study Safeguard the Authority of Scripture? This volume explores the essential discipline of lexical semantics within biblical studies, offering believers a roadmap for understanding how Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words function to convey God’s truth. From the distinctive features of each biblical language to the implications for translation and interpretation, readers are guided to handle the inspired text with reverence and confidence. Drawing on a conservative approach that resists liberal skepticism, the book explains practical methods for identifying a word’s...

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Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies, and in this study guide we analyse the key meanings and subtleties within the play. We discuss the main protagonists, the key themes and the context and break down the core scenes so that you have all the necessary facts and arguments at your disposal. Written by Catherine Hartley and Stella Vassiliou, both of whom have master's degrees in English literature from Cambridge and Oxford Universities respectively.

Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers. These permanent and painful marks could act as signs of alliance or signs of conflict, producing a complex bodily archive of cross-cultural entanglement. Indigenous body modification practices were adopted and transformed by colonial powers, making tattooing and scalping key forms of cultural and political contestation in early America.

With his characteristic clarity and elegance A. C. Grayling takes the listener from the worldviews and moralities before the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates, through Christianity's dominance of the European mind, to the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and on to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre and philosophy today. And, since the story of philosophy is incomplete without mention of the great philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world, he gives a comparative survey of them, too.

If you're looking to score a perfect five on your AP US Government exam, look no further. Whether it's reviewing the Constitution or learning about civil rights, AudioLearn is your complete study guide to The US Government. Best of all, you get a complete free AP US Government test!

Lots of intermediate English speakers tend to get trapped using the same vocabulary over and over again. They often only speak about subjects they know the words for and avoid anything outside of their comfort zone. The problem with this is that, even though they sound ok, they never really get any better.

Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes. From her mother's black wedding suit to the swirling patterns of her own silk kimono, her memoir unfolds in spare, luminous prose the spellbinding power of the things we wear.

The Audiopi series of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon examines all aspects of the story, including the major characters, themes, its context and the form and structure; it also discusses and analyses each individual chapter. To provide an insightful view of the novel to help throughout your listening, we have Chris Ashby, who played Christopher in the West End production, delivering key quotes.

Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's greatest and best loved tragedies. In this series for GCSE English Literature, we analyse all aspects of the play, ensuring that you gain a full understanding of the various complexities - including the context and a detailed analysis of all the scenes - helping whilst you study and revise. Furthermore, we have two dedicated chapters on preparing for your exam, so when it comes to the big day you know what to expect.

Listen to the key words and phrases in French, then repeat, practise and refine! A relaxing way to pick up the language. All essential words and phrases for modern life in France are here, with topics covering home life, work and school environments, shopping, food and drink, sport and leisure, transport, technology and the environment. Great care has been given to represent modern French culture and enhance your experience of France and its people, including food and drink, customs, celebrations and festivals.

This book encompasses traditional tips that have worked for most people and then goes way beyond them. adjusting them to individual learners and teaching the learners to develop their own heuristics for rapid and successful language learning. Within these pages, the reader can find a trove of treasure, such as strategies and tactics reading, listening, writing, and speaking mental management ways to manage cognitive dissonance ways to control emotional reasoning the connection between health and language learning understanding and improving memory knowing how personality type and cognitive ...

Why is it important to learn collocations and idioms? An appreciation of collocations and idioms will help you to use the words you know more accurately. In other words, you’ll make (not do) fewer mistakes. Mastering collocations, idioms, and phrases means no more struggle, pausing, or confusion while dealing with any of the major skills of the language (writing, reading, speaking, and listening). This is the most effective method to use English words in a correct but natural way.

In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the uses and implications of that epithet. The N Word moves beyond that short, provocative book by revealing how the word has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America.

The Swiss National Science Foundation claims that listening to a newly learned foreign language while sleeping can help solidify the memory of the reviewed content. The stimulus we hear in our sleep helps us consolidate memories. This is a combination of two of our best sellers 2000 French Phrases and Learn French with 1144 Random Interesting & Fun Facts. Combined together, you get the value of two books in one! The audio version comes out to 25+ hours of content so you won't get bored and can listen to it over and over again.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to 5,000 Most Common GRE Words with Example Sentences: Official Test Preparation Guide: A Vocabulary Builder for Adults and build up your vocabulary for the GRE.

Do you need listening practice for the TOEFL test? Have you taken the TOEFL iBT before and been disappointed by your score? TOEFL Listening Practice Tests by Exam SAM can help! The book contains three complete TOEFL listening practice tests. Each of our practice test has six tasks each, just like the real exam, so there are 18 listening tasks in total in the audiobook.

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers. In this engaging memoir, Rickford recalls landmark events for his racial identity.

Learn hundreds of new English vocabulary words, expressions, phrasal verbs, and idioms in a fun and engaging way! Sound like a native speaker with these common words that are used in the USA and around the world. Most importantly, improve your TOEFL, TOIEC, or IELTS score by mastering new vocabulary words. Maximize your score on English proficiency exams like the TOEFL test. That’s where this Vocabulary Builder Workbook for Adults (Beginner ESL/EFL) comes in. Speak more fluently, gain some confidence, and improve your English exam scores. Yes, it really is that easy!