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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as languages)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,924 ratings — published 2014
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World ― A Language Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as languages)
avg rating 3.67 — 5,981 ratings — published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,738 ratings — published 2010
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as languages)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,812 ratings — published 1956
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as languages)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,816 ratings — published 1994
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as languages)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,843 ratings — published 2014
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,207 ratings — published 1990
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as languages)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,586 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 — 1,502 ratings — published 2012
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World ― A History of World Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as languages)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,151 ratings — published 2005
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as languages)
avg rating 4.12 — 557,165 ratings — published 2022
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as languages)
avg rating 3.87 — 107,068 ratings — published 2003
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 — 3,351 ratings — published 2001
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as languages)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,413 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 — 13,052 ratings — published 2011
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as languages)
avg rating 4.61 — 1,138 ratings — published 1996
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as languages)
avg rating 4.15 — 406 ratings — published 1943
Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,833 ratings — published 1999
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,194 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
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 — 2,102 ratings — published 2015
Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as languages)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,873 ratings — published 1993
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as languages)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,635,241 ratings — published 1943
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as languages)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,927 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 3.78 — 2,846 ratings — published 2011
The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as languages)
avg rating 4.19 — 474 ratings — published 1996
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 — 16,302 ratings — published 2015
Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as languages)
avg rating 4.25 — 892 ratings — published 1977
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as languages)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,625 ratings — published 1918
Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as languages)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,072 ratings — published 1953
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as languages)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,566 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
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as languages)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,298 ratings — published 2008
Short Stories in French for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as languages)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,437 ratings — published
Mastering Arabic: The Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as languages)
avg rating 4.11 — 199 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 — 11,319 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as languages)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,908,034 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 — 898 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 — 503 ratings — published 2017
The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as languages)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,763 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 3.95 — 1,115 ratings — published 2015
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as languages)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,608 ratings — published 2017
The Story of French (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as languages)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,027 ratings — published 2002
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as languages)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,226 ratings — published 2003
Language Families of the World (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 20 times as languages)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,040 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 — 4,154 ratings — published 2014
“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 here, Ms. Mori said. White people will always think we’re foreigners. But isn’t there another side to that? I said, my words a little slurred from the cognac in my bloodstream. If we speak perfect English, then Americans trust us. It makes it easier for them to think we’re one of them.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“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.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
