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
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Wheelock's Latin
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
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
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
Complete Romanian by Dennis DeletantRomanian verbs by Víctor Manuel Martínez RamírezRomanian Verbs by LibrenhausLearn Romanian - Level 1 by Innovative LanguageColloquial Romanian by Ramona Gönczöl-Davies
Language Learning: Romanian
22 books — 1 voter
BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian 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
201 books — 73 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanPoecabulary by Francis DiClementeAlive by Piers Paul ReadThe Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1970s
249 books — 19 voters
Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners by Jane WightwickAlif Baa by Kristen BrustadFirst Arabic Reader bilingual for speakers of English by Saher Ahmed SalamaArabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar by Jane WightwickThe Arabic Alphabet by Nicholas Awde
Best books for learning Arabic
16 books — 19 voters

Umberto Eco
Über die deutsche Sprache: „Sie halten sich für tief, weil ihre Sprache unklar ist, ihr fehlt die clarté der französischen Sprache, sie sagt nie exakt das, was sie sollte, so dass kein Deutscher jemals weiß, was er sagen wollte – und dann verwechselt er diese Undeutlichkeit mit Tiefe. Es ist mit Deutschen wie mit Frauen, man gelangt bei ihnen nie auf den Grund
Umberto Eco, Il cimitero di Praga

Iain Pears
Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal. "Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement. ...more
Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

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