Foreign Language Study

A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic is a comprehensive handbook on the structure of Arabic. Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, it provides a detailed yet accessible overview of the language in which the essential aspects of its phonology, morphology and syntax can be readily looked up and understood. more...

Price: $35.00

Shake it up in Spanish with a little help from your friends. Looking to break the ice in Barcelona? Flirt in Fajardo? If you want to connect with Spanish speakers, then get in on the conversation with your instant amigas, Pepa and Pili, and experience the real-world rhythm of everyday Spanish. Join the party and learn hundreds of expressions with their formal, informal, and “downtown” variations including tips on how and when to use them. So, if you want to mingle in Madrid, then you'll want to know how to say…. ¿Eres de Madrid? Are you from Madrid?. ¿Estudias o trabajas? Are you studying or working?. ¿Te importa si me siento aquí? Do you mind if I sit here?. ¿Estás libre esta tarde? Are you free this afternoon? more...

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The only verb reference a student of Italian will ever need Students, business people, educators, and tourists will love this handy, compact reference. It features 575 verbs, fully conjugated in easy-to-read charts and presented alphabetically, plus more than 1,500 additional verbs in their infinitive form (cross-referenced to the appropriate conjugation), a verb conjugation review, an appendix of irregular verbs, sample sentences demonstrating usage, and more. more...

Price: $15.99

Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourse’s claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that through the production of the Arabic text, the African slave already had all the elements that the West attributes to “reason” before his original introduction to Western culture—a literacy that already mediated between Africa and Europe. more...

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Indus Kohistani is a major language of the Dardic group of Indo-Aryan languages. It is spoken in North Pakistan along the west bank of the Indus. The Dardic languages are - in the words of the eminent linguist R.L. Turner - linguistically of great interest. They are of crucial importance for our understanding of the early stages of Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit) and of its prehistory. The dictionary contains around 8.000 entries, many of which are supplemented with parallels from other languages (Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Dravidian, etc.), and with information about their origin. The book is presently the most comprehensive dictionary of a Dardic language and a rich source for linguists and South Asian philologists. more...

Price: $193.20