Introducing Linguistics brings together the work of scholars working at the cutting-edge of the field of Linguistics, creating an accessible and wide-ranging introductory level textbook for newcomers to Linguistics.

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisit...

This course teaches Catalan, as spoken in north-eastern Spain today.

This third edition of the popular Japanese course for beginners has been completely rewritten to make learning the language easier and more enjoyable than ever before.

This third edition of Colloquial Czech has been revised and updated to make learning Czech easier and more enjoyable than ever before.

This new edition of Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf has been revised and updated to make learning this variety of Arabic easier and more enjoyable than ever before.

Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Malay. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Third revised edition of Genki: an integrated course in elementary Japanese. This is the second textbook in the series that includes 11 lessons in which the student will learn all the aspects that complete the basic level of Japanese. Each of the units contains a specific topic in which vocabulary and grammar are practiced. One of the peculiarities of this method is that it seeks to have a balance between all communication skills. Therefore, the student must perform listening and speaking com...

If you don't know these, you don't really know Dutch

You've memorized grammar rules, built a solid vocabulary, and can hold a decent conversation. But when native speakers laugh at a phrase you don't understand—or use an expression that makes no literal sense—you suddenly feel like an outsider again.

Because authentic Dutch isn't just learned. It's lived—through proverbs and idioms.

In HOW TO SPEAK DUTCH - Master Dutch Expressions, you'll discover the colorful expressions that Dutch peo...