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Learn Bengali with this complete course, now with free audio download! Spoken by over 200 million people worldwide, Bengali (Bangla) is an official language of Bangladesh and India. It is an Indo-Aryan language that descended from Sanskrit and has a rich thousand-year-old literary tradition. Ideal for those new to Bengali/Bangla, learning at home or in the classroom, Beginner’s Bengali (Bangla) with Online Audio includes: - Introductory Unit 1 that clearly outlines basics of Bengali/Bangla sounds and script and serves as a key building block for subsequent chapters - Fourteen carefully-paced units, each chapter including practical grammar lessons, exercises and vocabulary - Answer key and helpful appendices including verb charts, numbers and kinship terms - Bengali-English and English-Bengali glossaries - Online MP3 audio files for free download featuring pronunciation by native speakers

Yoruba, one of the national languages of Nigeria, is spoken by more than 30 million people worldwide. Yoruba-speaking populations are mostly located in southwest Nigeria, but also in parts of the Benin Republic and Togo, as well as in diaspora populations in the Americas, Caribbean and Europe. A variety of Yoruba is used in rites of the Santería religion of the Caribbean, and many Yoruba words can be found in Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion. Yoruba is also used in many other Afro-American religions in the Americas and the Caribbean. In fact, Yoruba is one of the most-widely spoken African languages outside of Africa. Ideal for those new to Yoruba, learning at home or in the classroom, Beginner’s Yoruba with Online Audio includes: - Fifteen carefully-paced and practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, and expressions - Cultural notes and details throughout, including religion, songs and folklore - Exercises for each lesson with answer key - Yoruba-English and English-Yoruba glossaries - Online MP3 audio files for download featuring pronunciation by native speakers

This title includes a book and 2 CDs. A small volcanic island just south of the Arctic Circle, lceland is a place of fierce natural beauty and warmly hospitable people. Glaciers and fjords punctuate the coastline while geysers, waterfalls and hot springs dot the interior, harnessed by Icelanders to provide geothermal and hydropower energy. The island itself is composed primarily of basalt, or cooled lava. Icelandic retains ancient characteristics that today have been lost by most Western European languages. A North Germanic language related to Faroese, it is grammatically comparable to Latin or Ancient Greek, but is most closely linked to Old Norse. Written Icelandic has changed very little since the 13th century. Icelanders take the preservation of their language very seriously, and are immensely proud of the fact that the 800-year old sagas can still be read today. "Beginner's Icelandic" contains 14 lessons structured to help the student traveller gain ease and familiarity with this noble language. The dialogues follow a variety of practical situations such as shopping, transportation, discussing the weather, eating in restaurants, and renting a car or a room, while building on the grammar, vocabulary and phrases learned in previous exercises. The audio CDs follow the dialogues on the page, so that the student benefits from seeing the script while simultaneously hearing the pronunciation. A glossary of words and colloquialisms rounds out this remarkable introduction to a unique language.

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Slovak-English/English-Slovak Dictionary and Phrasebook

Offers five thousand vocabulary entries arranged in thirty-four sections dealing with aspects of daily life.