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In these 24 thought-provoking lectures, you'll investigate how social differences based on factors such as region, class, ethnicity, occupation, gender, and age are inseparable from language differences. Further, you'll explore how these linguistic differences arise, and how they both reflect and generate our social systems.

From greetings to holidays, there are tons of times in your world where you can sign. What's the sign for happy? Or for cake? Learn helpful words for birthdays, feelings, holidays, and more.

Being an English author in a new and different culture seems to work its magic when these two are placed together in the same spot with a rich vocabulary; ideas seem more fully formed and characters have another edge to their existence. For the outsider looking in, more can be revealed and shared with ourselves.

Welcome to Satura Lanx, upper beginner / intermediate podcast told in beginner-friendly, easy spoken Latin. I'm Irene Regini, and every other Saturday I'll chat about everything concerning Latin (literature, language, culture), my own life and reflections and the questions you'll ask me. The same episodes are available in full video format on my YouTube channel. Start receiving resources and updates: https://pages.saturalanx.eu/catullus-carme/ This is a Satura Lanx production (listen to my other podcasts: Litterae Latinae Simplices, Rara avis).

Experience the third episode of the "Dino lernt Deutsch" story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration speed and style of this audiobook is aimed at absolute beginners, with special emphasis on clear pronunciation, so that you can easily pause and repeat words and phrases whenever you please. Intermediate learners are invited to just sit back and immerse themselves in the sounds and sights of the Cologne Carnival. To maximize learning benefits, we recommend listening to this audiobook together with a paperback or ebook edition of "Learn German with Stories: Karneval in Köln - 10 Short Stories for Beginners".

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

Experience the sixth episode of the "Dino lernt Deutsch" story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration speed and style of this audiobook is aimed at beginners, with special emphasis on clear pronunciation, so that you can easily pause and repeat words and phrases whenever you please. Immerse yourself in the sounds and sights of Sicily and learn German along the way!

American author, scholar, and satirist H.L. Mencken wrote The American Language in 1919, intending to defend American speech from prescriptivist critics. "America itself is unutterably vulgar. But vulgarity, after all, means no more than a yielding to natural impulses in the face of conventional inhibitions, and that yielding to natural impulses is at the heart of all healthy language-making."

This podcast is a production of Form 1 ( Grade 8) Students (The Navigators) of the BVI Seventh-day Adventist School on Tortola, British Virgin Islands. We highlight the story, A Cow Called Boy out of Kendal, Jamaica.In these episodes, we feature expressive reading, authors’ focus, school trivia, riddles, gems, fun facts and much more. Join The Navigators, as we navigate our world through literature. In Season two,we spice things up a little with stories,poetry,drama,recipes,music and more. We will showcase the talents to represent all members of our school family.

Theodor Fontane's best-known novel is published in simple language for the first time. Theodor Fontane's best-known novel is published in simple language for the first time. It largely complies with the ISO 24495-1:2023 plain language standard. We have also largely adapted it for plain language. The content is also typographically designed to be particularly reader-friendly. The book is suitable for readers with limited reading ability, English as a second language or with cognitive impairments.

The Audiopi series of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon examines all aspects of the story, including the major characters, themes, its context and the form and structure; it also discusses and analyses each individual chapter. To provide an insightful view of the novel to help throughout your listening, we have Chris Ashby, who played Christopher in the West End production, delivering key quotes.

Pinocchio is a naughty, disobedient wooden puppet that longs to grow up and become a real boy, but as long as he misbehaves and disappoints his father, old Gepetto, he is doomed and his dream will never be realized.

The bestselling modern classic by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden about a deaf couple, their hearing child, and the bond they create through sign language, featuring a new introduction by Sara Nović, author of the New York Times bestseller True Biz, and a new afterword by the...

Sie hören gerne Krimis und möchten Ihr Englisch aufbessern? Mit diesen spannenden Hörkrimis tauchen Sie in die Sprache ein und erweitern Ihren Englischwortschatz. Sie bietet Ihnen eine reizvolle Mischung aus bekannten und neuen Elementen, so dass Ihnen das Hören leicht fällt und Sie gut unterhalten werden. Alle Texte werden vorgelesen von einem muttersprachlichen Profi-Sprecher. Für Fortgeschrittene (B1). Wenn Sie doch einmal die Geschichten oder einzelne Stellen schwarz auf weiß sehen möchten, können Sie sie im PDF mit- und nachlesen.

Sie hören gerne Krimis und möchten Ihr Englisch verbessern? Mit diesen spannenden Kriminalgeschichten frischen Sie Ihr Englisch auf. Die verwendete Sprache passt genau zu Ihrem Lernniveau, so dass Ihnen das Hören ganz leicht fällt und sie beim Lernen von neuen Wörtern unterstützt werden. Für Anfänger (A1) bis Wiedereinsteiger (A2). Wenn Sie doch einmal die Geschichten oder einzelne Stellen nachlesen möchten, brauchen Sie nur das PDF öffnen. Hier finden Sie alle Geschichten nochmal schwarz auf weiß. Schwierigere Wörter können Sie dabei in einer alphabetischen Wortliste nachschlagen.

Sie lieben Deutschland und alles was dazugehört? Ohren auf und zugehört! Mit diesen abwechslungsreichen Kurzgeschichten frischen Sie ganz entspannt Ihre Deutschkenntnisse auf. Echte Deutsche hören und perfekt nachsprechen - muttersprachliche Sprecher sorgen für den letzten Schliff. Nichts verpassen! Im Begleitheft können Sie alle Geschichten mit- und nachlesen und den kompletten Wortschatz der Geschichten nachschlagen. Für Anfänger (A1) und Wiedereinsteiger (A2).

I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours. ’With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning. This famous book has made people laugh all over the world for a hundred years . . . and they are still laughing.

Möchten Sie Portugiesisch lernen oder Ihre Portugiesisch-Kenntnisse festigen? Dann ist dieses Hörbuch genau das Richtige für Sie. Reisen Sie durch die portugiesischsprachige Welt (Lusophonie) und lernen Sie die Facetten der Sprache sowie die Vielfalt der Kulturen der einzelnen Länder kennen, in denen Portugiesisch gesprochen wird. Das Hörbuch eignet sich besonders gut für Portugiesisch-Anfänger, da es in einfacher portugiesischer Sprache (A2-B1) verfasst wurde.

Ellen Shore’s family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first. And when they are adults, Al still comes first. He begins a rock band and makes records. Soon he is rich and famous - very rich, but he gives nothing to his sister Ellen. She has a difficult life, with three young kids and very little money. And she learns to hate her rich, famous, unkind brother.

Sind alle am Tisch Ja-Sager? Bloß nicht! Dieses Hörbuch zeigt, wie Meinungsverschiedenheiten positiv eingesetzt werden können...