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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as languages)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,771 ratings — published 2014
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as languages)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,894 ratings — published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,702 ratings — published 2010
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as languages)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,826 ratings — published 1956
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as languages)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,763 ratings — published 1994
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,823 ratings — published 2014
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,077 ratings — published 1990
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as languages)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,572 ratings — published 1970
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as languages)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,497 ratings — published 2012
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as languages)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,148 ratings — published 2005
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as languages)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,334 ratings — published 2001
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as languages)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,983 ratings — published 2003
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as languages)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,385 ratings — published 2018
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as languages)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,989 ratings — published 2011
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as languages)
avg rating 4.12 — 545,755 ratings — published 2022
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as languages)
avg rating 4.16 — 405 ratings — published 1943
Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,827 ratings — published 1999
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,184 ratings — published 2005
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,017 ratings — published 2009
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as languages)
avg rating 4.61 — 1,127 ratings — published 1996
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as languages)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,090 ratings — published 2015
Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as languages)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,867 ratings — published 1993
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as languages)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,612,506 ratings — published 1943
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as languages)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,874 ratings — published 2019
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as languages)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,838 ratings — published 2011
The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as languages)
avg rating 4.19 — 473 ratings — published 1996
Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as languages)
avg rating 4.25 — 889 ratings — published 1977
How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as languages)
avg rating 3.81 — 874 ratings — published 1991
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as languages)
avg rating 3.74 — 16,205 ratings — published 2015
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as languages)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,463 ratings — published 1918
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as languages)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,564 ratings — published 2015
English Grammar in Use With Answers: Reference and Practice for Intermediate Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as languages)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,994 ratings — published 1985
Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as languages)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,060 ratings — published 1953
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as languages)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,283 ratings — published 2008
Short Stories in French for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as languages)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,401 ratings — published
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,301 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as languages)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,839,528 ratings — published 1997
Mastering Arabic: The Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as languages)
avg rating 4.10 — 197 ratings — published 1990
501 French Verbs (Barron's 501 French Verbs)
by (shelved 23 times as languages)
avg rating 4.26 — 656 ratings — published 2003
Japanese from Zero! 1: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as languages)
avg rating 4.35 — 893 ratings — published 2006
Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament with Scripture, Subject, and Greek Word Indexes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as languages)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,507 ratings — published 1995
Japanese for Busy People I: Romanized (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as languages)
avg rating 3.78 — 468 ratings — published 1984
How to Speak Any Language Fluently: Fun, stimulating and effective methods to help anyone learn languages faster (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as languages)
avg rating 3.84 — 502 ratings — published 2017
The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as languages)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,761 ratings — published 1974
Short Stories in Italian for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Italian the fun way! (Readers Vol. 1) (Italian Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as languages)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,098 ratings — published 2015
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as languages)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,570 ratings — published 2017
The Story of French (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as languages)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,026 ratings — published 2002
Language Families of the World (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 20 times as languages)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,037 ratings — published 2019
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as languages)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,138 ratings — published 2014
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as languages)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,210 ratings — published 2003
“Pojąłem, że każdy świat ma własną tajemnicę i że dostęp do niej jest tylko na drodze poznania języka. <...> Rozumiałem, że im więcej będę znał słów, tym bogatszy, pełniejszy i bardziej różnorodny świat otworzy się przede mną.”
― Travels with Herodotus
― Travels with Herodotus
“BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
