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Russian Picture Word Book: Learn Over 500 Commonly Used Russian Words Through Pictures (Foreign Language Anyone?)

Svetlana Rogers

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 2.5 of 5

Not for the English student of Russian 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Some of these types of vocabulary picture books are designed for native Russian speakers to learn English and not the other way around, but many of us native English speakers buy them in hopes of using them to learn Russian. The main problem with this and similar books is that the Russian words are not stress-marked, an essential feature for learning proper Russian pronunciation. So, you get a lot of words and their associated pictures, but nothing in the way of pronunciation help.

That said, one can use this as an exercise in looking up Russian words in a good Russian/English dictionary and page by page, mark the stress yourself. Could be useful in memorizing the vocabulary and make a marginally useful book, more so. Good luck!

Editorial Review:

Delightful learning aid contains 15 scenes of home, school, farm, beach, park, classroom, and other common environments--with more than 500 objects labeled in Russian. Complete list of Russian words and English translations included at back of book. Fun-filled, effective way for students of Russian to build and strengthen their vocabulary skills.

Baby's First Words in French

Living Language

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Good, but... 4 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

This is the same thing as Baby's First Steps in French! Different title, same thing. It even says that customers who bought this, also bought 'First Steps,' so don't be misled... Amazon seriously needs to let customers know that this is a revised edition, so others don't make the same mistake I did, which is to make two purchases of the same item.

That said, my 4 and a half month old, seems to like listening to the songs, and I enjoy it, as well. :)

Editorial Review:

Before they focus in on their native language, babies have an amazing ability to hear and absorb sounds that adults unconsciously block out, like the subtleties of a foreign language. Baby’s First Words in French is an introduction to the sounds of French and “locks in” a child’s ability to learn these sounds.

Created by linguistic experts, Baby’s First Words in French is designed for newborns to toddlers up to two years old. Each package includes:

·60 minute CD of sweet and soothing songs, rhymes, words and stories
·Parents’ guide that explains how children learn languages
·Lyric sheet so that parents can sing along to the songs on the CD with their children

The Complete Book of Spanish (Spanish Edition)

School Specialty Publishing

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Learning a foreign language has never been easier or so much fun! The Complete Book of Spanish teaches children useful words and phrases and is filled with pictures to give clues to the meanings of Spanish words. Children will learn useful vocabulary to describe things they encounter every day in the classroom, in their homes, and in the world around them.

This best-selling, 352 page workbook features exercises that build on Spanish vocabulary and review lessons to reinforce learning and build confidence. Includes a complete answer key and easy-to-understand directions.

Over 4 million in print! The best-selling Complete Book series offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information about a single topic or subject area. Containing over 30 titles and encompassing preschool to grade 8 this series helps children succeed in every subject area!

My First Book of Tagalog Words: Filipino Rhymes and Verses

Liana Romulo, Jaime Laurel

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Its just OK. 2 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Its ok, but not great. My son and I love the graphics and colors, but the text is lacking. The author writes a disclaimer in the beginning that she added non-traditional letters like C, X, and Z etc. (due to the Spanish and American influences on the country), but what disappointed me was that the traditional sound "Ng" from the real Tagalog alphabet was missing. So many Tagalog words start with "Ng", so she shouldnt have left this out. Otherwise, its ok.

Fun to read! 4 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this book for my two children. My son who is 2 and my daughter who is 7 months. I am half Filipino but can not speak Tagalog fluently. The chosen entries for the book brought back quite a few memories. I hope that with a book like this one and others if I can find them will help the kids become familiar with Tagalog. So far, they seem to enjoy it. My son loves the bright illustrations. I like the simplicity. I just wish I could find another version for American born Tagalog speakers.

Editorial Review:

In the age-old tradition of teaching language through rhyme and verse, My First Book of Tagalog Words introduces Philippine language and culture to preschool children in a playful and non-intimidating way. The ABC structure provides a familiar framework that encourages fun and easy learning. Its bold and bright illustrations aim to make children laugh and enjoy the learning process.

The Oxford Picture Dictionary English/Arabic: English-Arabic Edition (Oxford Picture Dictionary Program)

Norma Shapiro, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein

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Total reviews: 24 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

ESL Resource Book 5 out of 5 stars.
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The intention of the Oxford Picture Dictionary Series is to instruct English Language Learners with parallel text. They are not meant to instruct English speakers to learn a second language. Keep this in mind before you buy the text.
It IS an excellent tool for beginning ELLs no matter what age level. Check out the tapes and CD rom, too.

illustrated nouns and verbs 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is an excellent source book that names everything with pictures. For the English-speaking student of Arabic as well as the Arabic-speaking student of English, everyone learns how to name everything. This book is an essential language-learning tool.

IS INDEED an Excellent Resource for Eng-speaking Students 5 out of 5 stars.
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Contrary to what's been said here, this book is invaluable for those who
have mastered pronunciation and have a few years of Arabic. In so many Arabic-study
texts, you don't find words grouped together by theme. E.g., you learn apple, spoon,
body part, etc., but rarely all together. If you're serious, this and the 1000 Arabic media words
are helpful. No, it's not for newbies; neither is much of what is offered. In that case, go
to the Kitab (Georgetown Series) or other fine beginner's texts.

Editorial Review:

A comprehensive, flexible, and up-to-date vocabulary reference and teaching tool for English language learning. The Oxford Picture Dictionary and its components create a highly teachable programme that can be used as a complete, four-skills beginning course, or as a language development supplement and practical reference. NEW Grammar Activity Book

Der Kleine Prinz (A Harvest /HBJ Book) (German Edition)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Great book! 5 out of 5 stars.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful.

Although I am only in my second semester of German, this book has been fairly easy to read. For English speakers learning German, this book will give you a better understanding of imperative sentences ---the little prince commands the pilot to do things. z.B: Draw me a sheep!

I have read the book several times in English, which of course, helps me to understand the story in German.

It is a wonderful story. I have searched the Internet, and the Amazon price on this book is very fair.

Simply the best 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

If you ask me about my favorite book, the book that I would take to a lonely island, the book that I would recommend everyone to read: Here is it. I read Saint-Exupery's wondrous story of the little prince in the German translation, but translations cannot harm this wonderful, poetic book and cannot hide the deep thoughts that are expressed in this simple language that makes it sound like a book for children.

Le petite prince is not really a typical text of Saint-Exupery's. He was famous for his activities as a pilot (which presumably ended his life during WWII) and has written several books about this. There are also a few very complex texts (like "Citadelle" which I haven't managed to read completely), and then there is this strange book, which is for kids and not for kids, which contains so much wisdom and ongoing astonishment about the world around us.

The little prince lives on a very (extremely) small planet nearby with his vulcanoes and his flower. On his tour arond the solar system he meets many different people (kings, merchants, ...) until he finally meets with the author who had an emergency landing somewhere in the desert on Earth.

Read this - in what language ever - and be charmed by the little prince!

Editorial Review:

The little prince discovers the secrets of friendship while traveling throughout the universe.

Tintin in America (The Adventures of Tintin)

Herge

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Total reviews: 19 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Weak early work. 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Herge, Tintin in America (Methuen, 1932)

The first of the canonical Tintin works (the third written; the other two, out of print for decades, are finally being brought back into print in 2007), Tintin in America has served since the forties as an introduction to Tintin and Snowy for generations of fans. It's an odd little volume, not as smooth nor as funny as the later works got, and it still contains some pretty nasty stereotypes (the reason those first two adventures have been out of print for so long) about ethnic minorities as part of the background humor. If you're a Tintin completist, obviously, you'll need a copy of this one, if you've never read it; otherwise, I'd suggest starting with one of the later adventures and coming back to this one once you're already a fan. ***

Dumb, camp or fun? 3 out of 5 stars.
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When I read this Tintin as a child I thought it was pretty dumb, especially (ARRGH!) that Wild Western-style lynching. Surely they didn't do things like that in America in the 1930s. Only the poor Negroes got lynched by that time.

Looking back at the book I found it more enjoyable. The lynching still aggravates me but it gets hilarious when the first man fails to lynch Tintin twice and they fall over themselves to do it. The plot gets silly and contrived in places but it seems to have an appealing camp quality. And I really love the scene when Tintin is rescued in the nick of time from being run over by the train. That is my favourite scene from that book.

However I like the Nelvana adaptation much better than the original book. The plotting is much tighter, focussing on the gangsters. Much of the silliness has been cut out. And I am very glad they deleted the Blackfeet tribe and (thank goodness!) the lynching.

Editorial Review:

The boy hero comes to the United States and triumphs over gangsters in Chicago of the 1930's and the pitfalls of the wild West.

I Can Read and Speak in Spanish (Book + Audio CD)

Maurice Hazan

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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A unique learning experience geared to the way children learn best.

The biggest hurdle young children face when learning a new language is stringing words together into coherent sentences. Developmental psychologist and veteran language teacher Maurice Hazan has created an ingenious new way to help kids over that hurdle. The I Can Read and Speak series makes learning fun with an exciting combination of dramatic action, pictures, sounds, symbols and learning activities including flash cards and stickers. Kids are introduced to 60 new words that are used in simple illustrated stories. Learning activities at the end of each story encourage kids to re-create the sentences and create new sentences of their own, using specially designed flash-card symbols. Each book includes:

A colorful storybook illustrated with photographs

Lively storybook narration (on CD) for proper pronunciation

Flash cards and stickers for sentence and story creation

Tips for parents on how to adapt the material to their child's learning style

The Call of the Wild (Classics Illustrated (New York, N.Y.), No. 10.)

Chuck Dixon, Jack London, Gary Fields

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Jack London - Part Prolific Novelist, Part Wolf 5 out of 5 stars.
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After reading "The Call of the Wild" or more precisely, after being transferred to another place and time, or even more to the point after being totally submerged into the being of this animal, I'm left completely awe-struck by London's work.

To see what Buck saw, to feel the forces and the instincts that he felt... that is the power of this book. Here's a passage from the third chaper to illustrate what I mean:

"At the mouth of the Tahkeena, one night after super, Dub (a member of the sled-dog team) turned up a snowshoe rabbit, blundered it, and missed. A hundred yards away was a camp of the Northwest Police, with fifty dogs, huskies all, who joined the chase. The rabbit sped down the river, turned off into a small creek, up the frozen bed of which it held steadily. It ran lightly on the surface of the snow, while the dogs plowed through by main strength. Buck led the pack, sixty strong, around bend after bend, but he could not gain. He lay down low to the race, whining eagerly, his splendid body flashing forward, leap by leap, in the wan white moonlight. And leap by leap, like some pale frost wraith, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead.

All the stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He as mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move."

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Taken from a kindly owner, Buck is forced into the perilous life of a sled dog in the treacherous Yukon Territory during the Klondike gold rush. Presented in comic book format.

Fun with Hieroglyphs

Catharine Roehrig

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Good to Use With Children 4 out of 5 stars.
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I had gotten this item in hopes of spending time with my little sibling, teaching her a thing or two about Egyptian writing. I had expected to drag her into this, but, surprisingly, she came in with full excitement because she had already learned about hieroglyphs in school (I'm way past remembering what 2nd grade taught me).
We had a wonderful time creating words and names with the stamps, and learning more about the lettering and symbolism from the book. Although I'm not too familiar with Egyptian writing, I can only rely on what the stamps provide, and so am hesitant to base my full trust in Roehrig's research.

But, all in all, if this kit is directed to families, then it is highly recommended.

Fun Product! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Fun With Hieroglyphs is a great way to get an education on ancient Egyptian writings. This book tells the history of hieroglyphics and goes on to identify actual symbols used in the writings on walls and in art work of the Egyptians. Charts are presented that identify the sounds of each symbol. I found it very interesting that when you see a picture of someone on a hieroglyphic, the way the person is facing is the way you would read the writing: if the person is facing left, then that is how to read that particular piece, from left to right.

There is a lot of information in this nicely presented book. It is easy to read and understand and it has a variety of exercises that help you learn the symbols.

Also interesting are the writings on tombs - the Egyptians wanted to make sure they had everything they needed on their journey beyond so on their tombs are lists of things they needed most in the afterlife. You can look at actual photos of tombs and learn to read them. If they wanted a particular bird such as an owl or other animal, often they were depicted without wings, or legs to keep the animal from running or flying away.

My daughter is in 6th grade and they are studying ancient civilizations. This is a great book for understanding how the ancients used their writings, many of which have lasted for centuries.

You can also make your own hieroglyphic messages for others to decipher with the included rubber stamps and ink!

Editorial Review:

Introduces Egyptian hieroglyphs, indicates how they correspond to the English alphabet, and explains how to use them to write words and sentences. Includes rubber stamps and an ink pad for printing messages.