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Eleanor Harz Jorden and Mari Noda, authors of the widely used language textbook Japanese: The Spoken Language, now offer the first volume of the much anticipated companion to it, Japanese: The Written Language.

An introductory manual for writing Chinese characters specifically designed for English-speaking readers. The author guides the reader through the fundamentals of writing, introduces the various scripts used in China and demonstrates how to write with a fountain pen rather than a brush.

A grammar of classical Arabic, and a reference tool for beginning- or advanced-level students. It is designed to be brief enough to be used with efficiency, but also seeks to be rich in content and thorough in its coverage.

This volume is an interdisciplinary introduction to French cultural studies designed for French-language students. The book employs a holistic approach, integrating French with texts and images that might be studied in fine art, anthropology, sociology, or history.

"One of the most reliable classroom textbooks of Japanese for beginners."-Yoshiko Nakano, Language This first book of Japanese: The Spoken Language initiates a course in modern spoken Japanese that teaches current usage through drills and functional exchanges. The series is entirely romanized. Accompanying audio and video materials are available

'Biblical Hebrew' offers 55 lessons, each based around verses or segments from Biblical texts. This new edition has been fully revised, includes three new audio CDs and a companion volume, 'The Supplement' which presents reinforcement and review activities along with additional detail about topics in the main text.

Focusing on contemporary Italian films, this book offers Italian-language teachers an opportunity to incorporate authentic language in their classrooms. The book is adaptable for any level of language instruction and devotes one chapter to each of ten entertaining movies.

Devoted entirely to Russian motion verbs, this work integrates text and workbook exercises, aiming to prepare intermediate students (second and third year undergraduates) to use comfortably the everyday Russian heard in conversation on the street and in the home.

This volume is a comprehensive grammar of Hausa, one of the largest and most important languages of Africa. It is organized alphabetically, and the grammar covers such expected topics as tonology, noun plurals, and verbal tense/aspect as well as often neglected topics like verbal idioms.

This text presents a thorough introduction to the modern written language of Japan. It introduces 425 kanji characters.

Learn to Write the Hebrew Script presents a new and innovative approach to learning the Hebrew script.

This collection of writings highlights some of the work being done in the USA and abroad to make communicative competence an attainable goal. The contributors examine what has come to be known as communicative language teaching, or CLT, from the perspectives of teachers and teacher educators.

Barbara Mujica provides an introduction to the volume in English, placing early modern Spanish women's writing within the broader context of Europe of the time. The remaining text is in Spanish, and for each of the selections Mujica offers an introduction with biographical and critical information.

A collection of approaches to reading in a foreign language. The contributors all place reading at the heart of learning a foreign language and entering a foreign culture, and they consider issues and methods of language education from such diverse perspectives as cognitive theory and history.

This unique Russian-language textbook draws on printed mass media, and especially up-to-date Internet media sources, to introduce intermediate and advanced students to varied aspects of modern Russian life.