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Japanese for Busy People II (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 225 ratings — published 1990
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 13,796 ratings — published 2014
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.91 — 4,823 ratings — published 2014
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,776 ratings — published 1994
Integrated Korean: Beginning 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 252 ratings — published
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 4,186 ratings — published 2005
Kanji & Kana: A Guide to the Japanese Writing System (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 167 ratings — published 1979
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 45,112 ratings — published 1990
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 7,717 ratings — published 2010
Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,831 ratings — published 1999
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,812 ratings — published 1956
Short Stories in German for Beginners (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,165 ratings — published 2018
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 3.94 — 1,103 ratings — published 2015
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 4,391 ratings — published 2018
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13,010 ratings — published 2011
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,582 ratings — published 2017
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,092 ratings — published 2015
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,017 ratings — published 2009
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,147 ratings — published 2005
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,286 ratings — published 2008
Japanese for Busy People: Kana Workbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 40 ratings — published 1996
Japanese For Young People II: Kanji Workbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 1999
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,339 ratings — published 2001
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,167 ratings — published 2023
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,996 ratings — published 2022
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 12,896 ratings — published 2019
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 7,213 ratings — published 1980
Short Stories in Russian for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Russian the fun way! (Readers)
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avg rating 3.99 — 314 ratings — published
Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.66 — 486 ratings — published 2016
On Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,087 ratings — published 1998
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 6,501 ratings — published 2008
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 715 ratings — published 2003
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 4,146 ratings — published 2014
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,505 ratings — published 2014
Learn Italian (Italiano) the Fast and Fun Way/With Barron's Italian-English English-Italian Dictionary
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avg rating 3.77 — 52 ratings — published 1985
Collins Robert French Dictionary: French-English English-French (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 227 ratings — published 1978
Arabic (Teach Yourself)
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avg rating 3.34 — 59 ratings — published 1979
Integrated Chinese: Textbook, Level 1, Part 1 Simplified Characters (English and Chinese Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 241 ratings — published 1997
GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. II (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 707 ratings — published 1999
Japanese for Busy People I: Romanized Version1 CD attached (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 109 ratings — published 2011
Japanese for Busy People III: The Workbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 1999
Colloquial Icelandic: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series)
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avg rating 3.93 — 70 ratings — published 2001
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,337 ratings — published 2016
How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 702 ratings — published 1998
Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Workbook: Simplified Characters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 191 ratings — published 2004
A Guide to Japanese Grammar: A Japanese Approach to Learning Japanese Grammar (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.51 — 386 ratings — published 2012
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 5,712 ratings — published 2025
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 4,803 ratings — published 2025
The Everything Learning Russian Book Enhanced Edition: Speak, Write, and Understand Russian in No Time (Everything®)
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avg rating 3.48 — 63 ratings — published 2007
A Manual of Modern Greek, I: For University Students: Elementary to Intermediate (Yale Language Series)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1983