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Wordbuilders: The convenient and entertaining way to build a more powerful vocabulary. Each 60-minute entry in the series features 40 words used in everyday conversation, or in the media and books, but which many people skip, finding them difficult or even impossible to define or pronounce...

Wordbuilders: The convenient and entertaining way to build a more powerful vocabulary. Each 60-minute entry in the series features 40 words used in everyday conversation, or in the media and books, but which many people skip, finding them difficult or even impossible to define or pronounce...

For too long, sentence instruction has been heavy on correctness and terminology (as in “mind your grammar”) and light on play and experimentation. Or it has been abandoned altogether. In this lively book, Marty Brandt sets out to change all that.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition if First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran, read by Roy McMillan. The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A poet writes in sentences, but so does the unsung author who came up with Items trapped in doors cause delays. A good sentence can...

Brought to you by Penguin. The King's English is Kingsley Amis's authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders and barbarities that lie in...

""I'm reading the OED so you don't have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on..."" So reports Ammon Shea, the tireless, word-obsessed, and more than slightly masochistic author of Reading the OED. The word lover's Mount Everest...

‘Fascinating… I loved this book; I really did’ David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules. Cecelia Watson used to be obsessive about grammar rules. But then she began...

Unlock the meaning behind everyday English. Speak with confidence. Think with clarity. Have you ever heard phrases like “break the ice,” “hit the nail on the head,” or “under the weather” and wondered what they really mean? Idioms are everywhere — in conversations, books, movies, and the workplace. But without understanding them, it’s easy to feel confused or left behind. This audiobook gives you a clear, practical way to master idioms and start using them naturally in real life.

In dieser Ausgabe präsentiert Spotlight Audio die schönsten Beleidigungen auf Englisch, bietet vielseitige Einblicke, von den Entscheidungen junger Amerikaner bis zu kulturellen Themen aus Großbritannien, Südafrika, Indien, Wales und Irland.

Words matter. But precision matters more. The difference between sounding competent and sounding truly articulate is not complexity—it is control. The most respected communicators don't use rare or archaic language. They use the right words, deliberately.

Unlock the meaning behind everyday English. Speak with confidence. Think with clarity. Have you ever heard phrases like “break the ice,” “hit the nail on the head,” or “under the weather” and wondered what they really mean? Idioms are everywhere—in conversations, books, movies, and the workplace. But without understanding them, it’s easy to feel confused or left behind. This book gives you a clear, practical way to master idioms and start using them naturally in real life.

A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter. Why does the G in George sound different from the G in gorge? Why does C begin both case and cease? And why is it funny when a philologist...

Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day offers a lively and entertaining method for adding a more impressive list of words to your everyday speech, and for learning how to use them effortlessly and accurately. Besides giving definitions, this invaluable guide also provides root meanings and elements of words so you can increase your vocabulary base by thousands of exciting new words and use them with aplomb in sentences.

Stop memorizing endless vocabulary lists — and start understanding how the SAT actually tests words. SAT Vocabulary Decoded reveals the strategies behind one of the most misunderstood parts of the SAT: “Words in Context” questions. Instead of testing obscure dictionary definitions, the SAT challenges students to determine how a word is being used within a specific passage.

Would you like to improve your overall fluency in French? This course will improve your listening and conversational skills, expand your vocabulary and improve your grammar. Ideal for anyone who has completed the Michel Thomas Intermediate French course, or anyone with an intermediate level...

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What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget. - Michel Thomas Experience significant results in a remarkably short period of time thanks to the unique Michel Thomas Method, perfected over 50 years by celebrated psycholinguist Michel Thomas. The method works in tune with how...

The nearet thing to painless learning. - The Times Works like a dream. - Daily Telegraph Five minutes in and you already feel like you're winning. - Time Out Looking for a beginner refresher language course that fits into your busy lifestyle and gets you speaking a new language in a matter of...

The nearest thing to painless learning. - The Times Works like a dream. - Daily Telegraph Five minutes in and you already feel like you're winning. - Time Out Looking for a beginner refresher language course that fits into your busy lifestyle and gets you speaking a new language in a matter of...