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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,564 ratings — published 2014
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,864 ratings — published 2014
Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,818 ratings — published 1999
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,523 ratings — published 1970
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,553 ratings — published 2015
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,017 ratings — published 2015
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.61 — 1,108 ratings — published 1996
Café in Berlin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,563 ratings — published 2013
Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.25 — 887 ratings — published 1977
Talk To Me In Korean - Level 1 (Talk To Me In Korean Textbook #1)
by (shelved 16 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.56 — 658 ratings — published 2012
How Languages are Learned (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,287 ratings — published 1993
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,490 ratings — published 2012
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.16 — 401 ratings — published 1943
How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.81 — 872 ratings — published 1991
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,555,930 ratings — published 1943
GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. II (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.35 — 699 ratings — published 1999
How to Speak Any Language Fluently: Fun, stimulating and effective methods to help anyone learn languages faster (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.84 — 500 ratings — published 2017
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)
by (shelved 13 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,064 ratings — published 2015
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,814 ratings — published 1956
Japanese from Zero! 1: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.36 — 887 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,660,823 ratings — published 1997
Short Stories in German for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,102 ratings — published 2018
Integrated Korean: Beginning 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.23 — 252 ratings — published
Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition (Language Teaching Methodology Series)
by (shelved 11 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.23 — 232 ratings — published 1982
Talk To Me In Korean Workbook Level 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.54 — 296 ratings — published 2013
Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.99 — 433 ratings — published 1990
Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese I - Workbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.33 — 538 ratings — published 1999
Korean Grammar in Use - Beginning (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.48 — 274 ratings — published 2010
French for Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.24 — 176 ratings — published 1968
The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.19 — 472 ratings — published 1996
Short Stories in French for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,338 ratings — published
Short Stories in Russian for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Russian the fun way! (Readers)
by (shelved 9 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.98 — 306 ratings — published
The Linguist: A Personal Guide to Language Learning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.47 — 205 ratings — published 2003
Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Spanish the fun way! (Readers nº 1)
by (shelved 9 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,720 ratings — published
Japanese from Zero! 2: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals (Japanese Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.40 — 242 ratings — published 2006
Learning Chinese Characters (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.98 — 189 ratings — published 2007
The Way of the Linguist: A Language Learning Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.98 — 277 ratings — published 2005
My First 500 Korean Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.52 — 130 ratings — published
Learn German With Stories: Ferien in Frankfurt - 10 German Short Stories for Beginners (Dino lernt Deutsch 2)
by (shelved 8 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,247 ratings — published 2013
Colloquia Personarum (Lingua Latina per se Illustrata)
by (shelved 8 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.45 — 252 ratings — published 1994
How to Learn a Foreign Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.91 — 476 ratings — published 2013
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,595 ratings — published 2010
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,701 ratings — published 1994
Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.01 — 290 ratings — published 2021
Standard Course HSK 1 - HSK标准教程 (附光盘1)
by (shelved 7 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.29 — 193 ratings — published 2014
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar 日本語基本文法辞典 (Japanese Grammar Dictionary #1)
by (shelved 7 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.66 — 463 ratings — published 1989
Japanese Stories for Language Learners: Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English (Online Audio Included)
by (shelved 7 times as language-learning)
avg rating 3.96 — 168 ratings — published
The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.16 — 643 ratings — published 1993
Hangeul Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.58 — 206 ratings — published 2014
Learn German with Stories: Momente in München – 10 Short Stories for Beginners (Dino lernt Deutsch - Simple German Short Stories For Beginners 4)
by (shelved 7 times as language-learning)
avg rating 4.33 — 712 ratings — published 2014
“The Whirling Linguist
(Naskaristana 2670-2671)
Language is a paradox,
by ambition it is expansive,
but by neurology it is restrictive,
and language tied to ideology,
is downright decrepit.
I live in six languages,
and occasionally dabble in a few more,
and I learnt none inside classrooms,
I just outgrew the jungle memberships.
What makes a language native is
not flawless syntax or grammar,
but a shameless flow of passion.
For example, yo soy humano, por que humano?
cunku benim icin bi tek insanlik onemli -
sesangi sarang, sarangi sesang -
and to hell with armchair linguists
and grammar nazis, who can't tell
day from night without consulting textbooks -
I'm the center that the dervish whirls around,
I'm the flame that syllables dance around,
I'm the immeasurable that your complex-obsessed
psychology books patronize with analysis, and
philosophy books desecrate with ivory-tower,
lifeless logic disconnected from soil,
most of whom are more interested in calculation and
condescension than the elevation of human condition.
You think Naskar writes me, Naskar is an idiot, I'm beyond Naskar, beyond every single puny mortal brain, I'm the original sentience that occasionally seeks out fitting vessels, with a dominant tendency of expansion and a tinge of naivety, and makes them whirl at my whim, so that your little toddler species doesn't crawl back into jungle slime.”
― With Love From A Blue Rock
(Naskaristana 2670-2671)
Language is a paradox,
by ambition it is expansive,
but by neurology it is restrictive,
and language tied to ideology,
is downright decrepit.
I live in six languages,
and occasionally dabble in a few more,
and I learnt none inside classrooms,
I just outgrew the jungle memberships.
What makes a language native is
not flawless syntax or grammar,
but a shameless flow of passion.
For example, yo soy humano, por que humano?
cunku benim icin bi tek insanlik onemli -
sesangi sarang, sarangi sesang -
and to hell with armchair linguists
and grammar nazis, who can't tell
day from night without consulting textbooks -
I'm the center that the dervish whirls around,
I'm the flame that syllables dance around,
I'm the immeasurable that your complex-obsessed
psychology books patronize with analysis, and
philosophy books desecrate with ivory-tower,
lifeless logic disconnected from soil,
most of whom are more interested in calculation and
condescension than the elevation of human condition.
You think Naskar writes me, Naskar is an idiot, I'm beyond Naskar, beyond every single puny mortal brain, I'm the original sentience that occasionally seeks out fitting vessels, with a dominant tendency of expansion and a tinge of naivety, and makes them whirl at my whim, so that your little toddler species doesn't crawl back into jungle slime.”
― With Love From A Blue Rock
“I'm larger than genre, larger than grammar, I'm larger than primate dictionary.”
― With Love From A Blue Rock
― With Love From A Blue Rock
