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Dracula (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,476,916 ratings — published 1897
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 13,065 ratings — published 2014
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,402,347 ratings — published 1942
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,800 ratings — published 1956
How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 864 ratings — published 1991
The Decameron (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 43,621 ratings — published 1349
Candide (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 301,640 ratings — published 1759
Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.33 — 234 ratings — published 1999
Mimi and the Exhibition. (Mimi #2)
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avg rating 4.11 — 18 ratings — published 2012
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,479,483 ratings — published 1943
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,081,318 ratings — published 1866
Hasta que nos quedemos sin estrellas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 43,532 ratings — published 2022
Gomorrah (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 22,768 ratings — published 2006
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 81,934 ratings — published 800
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,880,151 ratings — published 1890
Broken Throne (Red Queen)
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avg rating 3.80 — 48,436 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Kingdom (Hundred Kingdoms, #1)
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avg rating 3.71 — 208,715 ratings — published 2018
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 2,583 ratings — published 1913
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 172,487 ratings — published 1320
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 221,299 ratings — published 1812
The Italian (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 6,180 ratings — published 1796
GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. II (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 694 ratings — published 1999
Deux mondes (Student Edition)
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avg rating 3.62 — 60 ratings — published 1993
Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 335 ratings — published 1995
First Thousand Words in French (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 138 ratings — published 2007
Short Stories in Italian for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Italian the fun way! (Readers Vol. 1) (Italian Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 991 ratings — published 2015
The Trial (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 395,519 ratings — published 1925
Aura (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 43,072 ratings — published 1962
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 395,674 ratings — published 1980
2666 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 48,844 ratings — published 2004
Ficciones (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 79,195 ratings — published 1944
Tree man (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 29 ratings — published 1993
انجیل عیسی مسیح (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 1,836 ratings — published 382
Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (Leather Bound)
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avg rating 4.60 — 45 ratings — published
Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese Characters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 99 ratings — published 1986
The Plague (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 314,975 ratings — published 1947
The Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,193,176 ratings — published -800
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,890,065 ratings — published 1818
War and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 365,957 ratings — published 1869
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,805,520 ratings — published 1813
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 7,380 ratings — published 2010
English Grammar for Students of Spanish: The Study Guide for Those Learning Spanish (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 194 ratings — published 1994
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 5,786 ratings — published 2014
Collins Italian Grammar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 44 ratings — published 1998
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,324,416 ratings — published 1847
Tobira: Gateway To Advanced Japanese Learning Through Content And Multimedia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 156 ratings — published 2009
A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar 日本語文法辞典【上級編】 (Japanese Grammar Dictionary #3)
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avg rating 4.75 — 103 ratings — published 2008
El túnel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 94,654 ratings — published 1948
Collins Easy Learning German Grammar (Collins Easy Learning Dictionaries)
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avg rating 3.92 — 63 ratings — published 2005
Les Justes (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 10,987 ratings — published 1949
“Burnout is also why passive language learning activities can sometimes be very beneficial. For example, relaxing to a song, movie, book, or conversation in a target language without looking up any words or preoccupying the mind with linguistic minutiae. In these moments, learners can focus on mastering what they already know. As for the unknown, they can draw inferences based solely on context without racking their brains. Passive language activities are doubly productive when learners have acquired a solid language base, without which their ability to rehearse, refine, and infer is constrained.”
― The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me
― The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me
“I started learning English from Abuelo Jorge's old grammar textbooks. I found them in Abuelo Celia's closet. They date back to 1919, the first year he started working for the American Electric Broom Company. At school, only a few students were allowed to learn English, by special permission. The rest of us had to learn Russian. I liked the curves of the Cyrillic letters, their unexpected sounds. I liked the way my name looked: Иван. I took Russian for nearly two years at school. My teacher, Sergey Mikoyan, praised me highly. He said I had an ear for languages, that if I studied hard I could be a translator for world leaders. It was true I could repeat anything he said, even tongue twisters like kolokololiteyshchiki perekolotili vikarabkavshihsya vihuholey "the church bell casters slaughtered the desmans that had scrambled out." He told me I had a gift, like playing the violin, or mastering chess.”
― Dreaming in Cuban
― Dreaming in Cuban












