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 Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Philosophers call this state of isolation and disconnection “species loneliness”—a deep, unnamed sadness stemming from estrangement from the rest of Creation, from the loss of relationship. As our human dominance of the world has grown, we have become more isolated, more lonely when we can no longer call out to our neighbors. It’s no wonder that naming was the first job the Creator gave Nanabozho.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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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