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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as languages)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,488 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 — 5,848 ratings — published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,528 ratings — published 2010
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as languages)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,813 ratings — published 1956
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as languages)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,650 ratings — published 1994
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,664 ratings — published 1990
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as languages)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,745 ratings — published 2014
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as languages)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,512 ratings — published 1970
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as languages)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,120 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 — 1,488 ratings — published 2012
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as languages)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,273 ratings — published 2018
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as languages)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,724 ratings — published 2003
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as languages)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,284 ratings — published 2001
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as languages)
avg rating 4.16 — 399 ratings — published 1943
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,710 ratings — published 2011
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,098 ratings — published 1996
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as languages)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,116 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 42 times as languages)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,001 ratings — published 2009
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as languages)
avg rating 4.13 — 507,201 ratings — published 2022
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as languages)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,538,287 ratings — published 1943
Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as languages)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,820 ratings — published 1999
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as languages)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,062 ratings — published 2015
Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as languages)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,842 ratings — published 1993
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as languages)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,813 ratings — published 2011
The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as languages)
avg rating 4.19 — 471 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 — 886 ratings — published 1977
How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as languages)
avg rating 3.81 — 871 ratings — published 1991
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as languages)
avg rating 3.75 — 15,942 ratings — published 2015
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as languages)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,644 ratings — published 1918
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as languages)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,683 ratings — published 2019
English Grammar in Use With Answers: Reference and Practice for Intermediate Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as languages)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,987 ratings — published 1985
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as languages)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,549 ratings — published 2015
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,251 ratings — published 2007
Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as languages)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,028 ratings — published 1953
Short Stories in French for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as languages)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,316 ratings — published
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as languages)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,235 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as languages)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,602,099 ratings — published 1997
501 French Verbs (Barron's 501 French Verbs)
by (shelved 24 times as languages)
avg rating 4.26 — 655 ratings — published 2003
Mastering Arabic: The Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as languages)
avg rating 4.08 — 196 ratings — published 1990
How to Speak Any Language Fluently: Fun, stimulating and effective methods to help anyone learn languages faster (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as languages)
avg rating 3.85 — 500 ratings — published 2017
Japanese from Zero! 1: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as languages)
avg rating 4.36 — 887 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 — 1,505 ratings — published 1995
The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as languages)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,755 ratings — published 1974
Japanese for Busy People I: Romanized (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as languages)
avg rating 3.78 — 469 ratings — published 1984
The Story of French (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as languages)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,012 ratings — published 2002
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as languages)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,172 ratings — published 2003
Language Families of the World (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 19 times as languages)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,012 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 3.97 — 1,042 ratings — published 2015
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as languages)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,401 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 — 4,087 ratings — published 2014
“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”
― The Luck of the Bodkins
― The Luck of the Bodkins
“Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers).
How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around).
What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around).
What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
