Languages


Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
Wheelock's Latin
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstIn the Land of Invented Languages by Arika OkrentThe Unfolding of Language by Guy DeutscherThe Mother Tongue by Bill  BrysonThrough the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher
Books for Language Lovers
203 books — 74 voters
النهضة اللغوية وخطاب التلهيج الفرانكفوني - في نقد الاستعمار ا... by سلمان بونعمان"The Shining Ones" by Helene E. HaganDébuts de l'écriture au Maghreb - نشأة الكتابة في البلاد المغ... by Ahmed SirajTirra - Aux origines de l'écriture au Maroc by Ahmed SkountiLangues et pouvoir. De l'Afrique du Nord à l'Extrême-Orient by Salem Chaker
Maghreb Linguarum
75 books — 6 voters


Viet Thanh Nguyen
Typical white man behavior, Ms. Mori said. Have you ever noticed how a white man can learn a few words of some Asian language and we just eat it up? He could ask for a glass of water and we’d treat him like Einstein. Sonny smiled and wrote that down, too. You’ve been here longer than we have, Ms. Mori, he said with some admiration. Have you noticed that when we Asians speak English, it better be nearly perfect or someone’s going to make fun of our accent? It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been h ...more
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

Dejan Stojanovic
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.
Dejan Stojanovic

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