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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as languages)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,682 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 114 times as languages)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,881 ratings — published 2014
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as languages)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,820 ratings — published 1956
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,663 ratings — published 2010
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as languages)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,726 ratings — published 1994
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as languages)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,805 ratings — published 2014
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,929 ratings — published 1990
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as languages)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,542 ratings — published 1970
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as languages)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,137 ratings — published 2005
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as languages)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,494 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as languages)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,319 ratings — published 2001
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as languages)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,894 ratings — published 2003
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as languages)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,349 ratings — published 2018
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as languages)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,910 ratings — published 2011
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as languages)
avg rating 4.16 — 403 ratings — published 1943
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.13 — 533,844 ratings — published 2022
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,161 ratings — published 2005
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)
by (shelved 43 times as languages)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,016 ratings — published 2009
Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as languages)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,824 ratings — published 1999
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as languages)
avg rating 4.61 — 1,117 ratings — published 1996
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as languages)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,080 ratings — published 2015
Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 2,863 ratings — published 1993
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as languages)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,586,517 ratings — published 1943
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as languages)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,832 ratings — published 2011
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as languages)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,821 ratings — published 2019
The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as languages)
avg rating 4.19 — 474 ratings — published 1996
Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as languages)
avg rating 4.25 — 889 ratings — published 1977
How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as languages)
avg rating 3.81 — 873 ratings — published 1991
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as languages)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,123 ratings — published 2015
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 88,235 ratings — published 1918
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as languages)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,561 ratings — published 2015
English Grammar in Use With Answers: Reference and Practice for Intermediate Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as languages)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,991 ratings — published 1985
Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as languages)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,049 ratings — published 1953
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as languages)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,259 ratings — published 2008
Short Stories in French for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as languages)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,375 ratings — published
Mastering Arabic: The Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 196 ratings — published 1990
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as languages)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,285 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as languages)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,751,547 ratings — published 1997
501 French Verbs (Barron's 501 French Verbs)
by (shelved 23 times as languages)
avg rating 4.26 — 655 ratings — published 2003
Japanese from Zero! 1: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as languages)
avg rating 4.36 — 891 ratings — published 2006
Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament with Scripture, Subject, and Greek Word Indexes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,505 ratings — published 1995
Japanese for Busy People I: Romanized (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as languages)
avg rating 3.78 — 467 ratings — published 1984
How to Speak Any Language Fluently: Fun, stimulating and effective methods to help anyone learn languages faster (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as languages)
avg rating 3.84 — 501 ratings — published 2017
The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as languages)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,759 ratings — published 1974
The Story of French (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as languages)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,022 ratings — published 2002
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as languages)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,194 ratings — published 2003
Language Families of the World (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 19 times as languages)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,024 ratings — published 2019
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 19 times as languages)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,085 ratings — published 2015
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as languages)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,530 ratings — published 2017
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as languages)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,126 ratings — published 2014
“Vin paused. "And you have all of these religions memorized?"
"As much as is possible," Sazed said. "Their prayers, their beliefs, their mythologies. Many are very similar -- break-offs or sects of one another."
"Even still, how can you remember all of that?"
"I have...methods," Sazed said.
"But, what's the point?"
Sazed frowned. "The answer should be obvious, I think. People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so--therefore--are their beliefs.”
― Mistborn: The Final Empire
"As much as is possible," Sazed said. "Their prayers, their beliefs, their mythologies. Many are very similar -- break-offs or sects of one another."
"Even still, how can you remember all of that?"
"I have...methods," Sazed said.
"But, what's the point?"
Sazed frowned. "The answer should be obvious, I think. People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so--therefore--are their beliefs.”
― Mistborn: The Final Empire
“The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.”
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