In de Vraagbaak Nederlands staat het praktische gebruik van onze taal centraal: hoe schrijf je foutloos en helder Nederlands? Snel vind je korte en krachtige antwoorden op honderden taalvragen.

De volledig vernieuwde Vraagbaak Nederlands is nog overzichtelijker én completer. De opbouw maakt dat je sneller een helder antwoord op al je vragen over taal en taalgebruik vindt. De volgende zoekingangen brengen je snel tot het juiste antwoord: Hoe schrijf je dat? Welk woord is het juiste? Hoe gebru...

Hoe zit taal in elkaar en hoe leren en gebruiken mensen taal? Het nieuwe Handboek taalkunde behandelt op een toegankelijke en overzichtelijke manier het fascinerende systeem achter taal. Het boek omvat alle leerdoelen over taalbeschouwing uit de kennisbasis voor toekomstige docenten Nederlands en biedt andere studenten een boeiende inleiding in de taalkunde.

Het Handboek taalkunde is opgebouwd aan de hand van vier categorieën. De eerste hoofdstukken behandelen de systematiek van taal in volg...

Practical English Usage has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Now revised and updated for the fourth edition, it answers the questions that teachers and learners ask about English grammar and vocabulary with clear, corpus-informed explanations and examples.

Longman dictionaries are compiled using the Longman Corpus Network - a huge database of 430 million words of spoken and written English - collected from both British and American English sources. They are easy to use and easy to understand: they are written using a limited vocabulary of just 2000 words - the Longman Defining Vocabulary - ensuring that they all have clear and understandable definitions.

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was to ...

Speak and write perfect English! BBI teaches you how to combine words with words to form phrases (so you can say "mortgaged to the hilt; I want something badly"). BBI also teaches you how to combine words into structures to form clauses and sentences (so you can say "I want you to go = What I want is for you to go"). So BBI helps you with both vocabulary and grammar.

BBI shows you important vocabulary and grammatical differences between American and British English. BBI gives you plenty of ex...

Zeer uitgebreid: antwoord op de meest uiteenlopende taalvragen

* Eenvoudig zoeken en snel vinden

* De zekerheid van kwaliteit door Van Dale

* Toegankelijk: luchtig geschreven en fris vormgegeven

* Geschreven vanuit het perspectief van de Nederlandstalige gebruiker

* De verdiepingsslag op de grote woordenboeken

* Passend bij de reeks grote woordenboeken: voor een complete taalvraagbaak in je boekenkast

Taal is leuk, maar soms ook moeilijk. Gelukkig zijn er de vertrouwde Van Dale-woordenb...

The 9th edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary has been revised and updated to include detailed coverage of today's English in a clear, attractive format. Ideal for upper intermediate and advanced learners of English, this dictionary covers all the words, phrases and idioms that students need to master in order to speak and write effective English. Thousands of updated examples taken from the 4.5- billion word Collins Corpus, show learners how the words are used in authe...

Fully updated throughout to include recent themes and events such as the 2020 election and 2021 Presidential inauguration, providing students with a current overview of US politics and society. Chapters on geography, women and minorities, and the media have been comprehensively revised to incorporate more information on such themes as environmental legislation, the LGBTQ+ community, social media and people, key themes in the study of American culture and society today, ensuring students get a...

WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best rep...