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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as languages)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,648 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 — 5,877 ratings — published 2014
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as languages)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,819 ratings — published 1956
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,637 ratings — published 2010
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as languages)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,716 ratings — published 1994
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as languages)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,792 ratings — published 2014
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,886 ratings — published 1990
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as languages)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,538 ratings — published 1970
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as languages)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,134 ratings — published 2005
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as languages)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,492 ratings — published 2012
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 3.99 — 3,316 ratings — published 2001
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as languages)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,870 ratings — published 2003
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as languages)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,335 ratings — published 2018
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as languages)
avg rating 4.16 — 402 ratings — published 1943
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as languages)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,881 ratings — published 2011
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.13 — 530,477 ratings — published 2022
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,146 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 — 3,016 ratings — published 2009
Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as languages)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,822 ratings — published 1999
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as languages)
avg rating 4.61 — 1,113 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 40 times as languages)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,076 ratings — published 2015
Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as languages)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,858 ratings — published 1993
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as languages)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,578,685 ratings — published 1943
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as languages)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,830 ratings — published 2011
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as languages)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,811 ratings — published 2019
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 — 873 ratings — published 1991
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as languages)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,167 ratings — published 1918
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as languages)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,100 ratings — published 2015
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as languages)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,561 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 — 1,990 ratings — published 1985
Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as languages)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,049 ratings — published 1953
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as languages)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,257 ratings — published 2008
Short Stories in French for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as languages)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,365 ratings — published
Mastering Arabic: The Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as languages)
avg rating 4.10 — 196 ratings — published 1990
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,283 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as languages)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,729,612 ratings — published 1997
501 French Verbs (Barron's 501 French Verbs)
by (shelved 23 times as languages)
avg rating 4.26 — 655 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 4.36 — 890 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 — 1,504 ratings — published 1995
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 — 501 ratings — published 2017
The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as languages)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,759 ratings — published 1974
Japanese for Busy People I: Romanized (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as languages)
avg rating 3.78 — 467 ratings — published 1984
The Story of French (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as languages)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,021 ratings — published 2002
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as languages)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,192 ratings — published 2003
Language Families of the World (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 19 times as languages)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,023 ratings — published 2019
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 19 times as languages)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,079 ratings — published 2015
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as languages)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,507 ratings — published 2017
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as languages)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,121 ratings — published 2014
“Whether you're native or foreign to a language isn't determined by blood, it's determined by whether you have to translate it in your head from another language.
Nativity of language has nothing to do with literacy or grammatical accuracy - any language that comes to you naturally, any language that bypasses the translation circuits of your brain, and forms spontaneous speech, albeit flawed, is your native language.”
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
Nativity of language has nothing to do with literacy or grammatical accuracy - any language that comes to you naturally, any language that bypasses the translation circuits of your brain, and forms spontaneous speech, albeit flawed, is your native language.”
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
― Maxims and Reflections
― Maxims and Reflections
