検索キーワード： 単語・言語・文法

Looking for a convenient language course that gets you speaking Italian in hours, not years? The Michel Thomas audio courses have helped over five million language learners to master a new language, with no writing, no stress and no memorisation. Perfect for absolute beginners, little or no...

1984 is a novel by the British author George Orwell in 1949. The narrative unfolds in an imagined future when most of the world has fallen prey to omnipresent government surveillance, propaganda, and endless war. Great Britain has become a province of the super state Oceania, which is ruled by the Party, whose leader is called Big Brother. The Party employs the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Winston Smith, the protagonist, is an ordinary worker who secretly despises the Party and dreams of rebellion.

Elevate Your Vocabulary as You Sleep is an audio learning experience designed to expand your vocabulary, enrich your language, and refine your communication while your mind rests.

文章を書くことは「人生を変える」ほど重要になった。では、そのスキルはどうやって引き上げればよいのだろうか。さまざまなシーンや目的に応じて、専門家がそのポイントを解説する。マスターすれば、ビジ

Whether you’re preparing for exams, boosting professional communication, or simply aiming to feel more confident in daily conversations, this book gives you the tools you need. Organized step by step, it guides you through the most frequent and essential words in English, showing you how to use them naturally.

The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organization of ideas and notes. This audiobook helps students, academics, and other knowledge workers to get more done, write intelligent texts, and learn for the long run. It teaches you how to take smart notes and ensure they bring you and your projects forward.

This course offers an overview of the English language that is literary, historical, cultural, political, and scientific in its scope and designed to give you greater insight into the written and spoken word.The lectures provide a thorough understanding of the history of the English language - from its origins as a dialect of the Germanic-speaking peoples through the literary and cultural documents of its 1,500-year span to the state of American speech today.

The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains: How you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world (hint: Seattle) connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what precisely the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.

"Les deux Tours", deuxième partie du "Seigneur des anneaux", poursuit le récit des aventures de Frodo et de ses compagnons, lancés dans leur périple en Terre du Milieu. Tandis que Merry et Pippin rencontrent les fascinants Ents de la forêt de Fangorn, Aragorn, Gimli et Legolas affrontent les Orques et les Cavaliers du Rohan, avant de rencontrer un mystérieux cavalier blanc. Frodo et Sam, de leur côté, suivent Gollum le long des chemins périlleux qui mènent vers le royaume du Mordor, le seul lieu où l'Anneau pourrait être détruit.

« Le poète est semblable au prince des nuées - Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer ; Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées, Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher. »...

緊張で言葉に詰まるプレッシャーの場面を、相手の信頼を勝ち取る明快なビジネスコミュニケーションへと変える実践的な会話術。重要なプレゼンの前夜や、自分の意見をうまく言えずに後悔した通勤電車のなかで聴きた...

派手な展開や奇抜な設定に頼ることなく、聞き手の心に深く永続的な余韻を刻み込むストーリーテリングとクリエイティブ・ライティングの極意がここにあります。慌ただしい通勤時間や静かな夜のリラックスタイムにこ...

職場の人間関係や家族とのすれ違いに心をすり減らす日々を変える、コミュニケーションの行き違いを防ぐための実践的な対話スキルを手に入れませんか。毎日の通勤時間や一日の終わりの静かな夜に耳を傾けるだけで、...

シリーズ510万部突破の大ベストセラー書籍『旅の指さし会話帳』（情報センター出版局刊）から、とにかく使える基本用語を徹底収録。

相手の顔色をうかがいながら言葉を探すプレッシャーから解放され、会話の構造を解き明かすことで対人関係の不安を根本から解消する、実践的で心が軽くなるコミュニケーションの手引き。通勤電車の中や夜のリラック...

In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns about correctness, Horobin considers whether such changes are improvements or evidence of slipping standards.  

A powerful, patriarchy-defying manifesto that will transform your relationship to saying “no”—from the award-winning writer, founder of Jezebel, and former New York Times "Work Friend" advice columnist When was the last time you said “no”? Not, I don’t think so, or maybe, or let me...

George Orwell's nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most definitive texts of modern literature. Set in Oceania, one of the three inter-continental superstate that divided the world among themselves after a global war, Orwell's masterful critique of the political structures of the time, works itself out through the story of Winston Smith, a man caught in the webs of a dystopian future, and his clandestine love affair with Julia, a young woman he meets during the course of his work for the government.

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言葉の裏に隠された非言語コミュニケーションのサインを読み解き、日常のすれ違いを確かな信頼関係へと変える、実践的で温かな対話のスキルを手に入れませんか。「うまく伝わらない」「誤解されやすい」という対人...