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  The Simple Way to Learn Chinese

  Lei Xiangjian

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  While in school, we learned stuff we probably don't use today. However, language is essential to almost every aspect of the human condition. How do you expand your business beyond your continent for more sales? How are you going to express your love for the beautiful lady who just walked past? How do you get directions to the magnificent Great Wall? With the knowledge of language, that's how. This book contains a lexicon of some of the most commonly used words in everyday Chinese conversation. It makes use of the age-old learning techniques of repetition and rote memorization to condition the brain for learning Chinese as quickly as possible. In addition, an auxiliary feature called story mode has been included to aid the listener in a test for comprehension. Finally, it should be noted that while this book will aid in a visual recognition and comprehension of words in the Chinese language, students must also understand their proper pronunciations. To help with this, an accompanying audiobook is also available to enable listening lessons. And so, from the beautiful city of Beijing, the city of love and all things fashionable, we present to you, The Simple Way to Learn Chinese.

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  Who Owns This Sentence? - A...

  Alexandre Montagu, David Bellos

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  Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties—making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws with colorful and often baffling rationales covering almost all products of human creativity. 
   
   
   
  It wasn't always so. Copyright has its roots in eighteenth-century London, where it was first established to limit printers' control of books. But a handful of little-noticed changes in the late twentieth century brought about a new enclosure of the cultural commons, concentrating ownership of immaterial goods in very few hands. Copyright's metastasis can't be understood without knowing its backstory, a long tangle of high ideals, low greed, opportunism, and word-mangling that allowed poems and novels (and now, even ringtones and databases) to be treated as if they were no different from farms and houses. Principled arguments against copyright arose from the start and nearly abolished it in the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, countless revisions have made copyright ever stronger.

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  The Sleeping-Car a farce

  William Dean Howells

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  The Sleeping-Car, a farce by William Dean Howells
  
  libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. 
  Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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  Learn Vietnamese: Must-Know...

  Innovative Language Learning, ...

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  ***Important: This Audiobook comes with 3 bonus Vietnamese “slang” and “curse words” conversation cheat sheets***
   
  
   
  Want to speak Vietnamese like a native, understand daily conversations...
   
  
   
  ...and graduate from “knowing just a few basic textbook phrases”?
   
  
   
  Then this the Audiobook is for you.
   
  
   
  You’re about to learn 100+ Vietnamese slang words and phrases used in daily life. With the “Learn Vietnamese: Must-Know Vietnamese Slang Words & Phrases (Extended Version) by VietnamesePod101” Audiobook, our teachers explain and break down each word and phrase across 25 lessons!
   
  
   
  And all YOU have to do is listen and repeat.
   
  
   
  What you get with this Audiobook:
   
  • 25+ Audio-based Lessons & Review Tracks
   
  • 174 Minutes (2.5+ Hours) in Total 
   
  • Includes a 100+ Page eBook
   
  • BONUS! 3 Vietnamese Slang Conversation Cheat Sheets
   
  
   
  Results you can expect:
   
  • Master 100+ New Words & Phrases
   
  • Improve Your Speaking & Listening Skills
   
  • Become a Better Vietnamese Speaker
   
  
   
  Download the PDF and read along

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  1000 Common Nouns - Learn...

  Science-Based Language Learning Lab

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  Unlock Spanish fluency with 1000 Common Nouns: Learn Spanish Through Simple Sentences. This guide is perfect for beginners and intermediate learners, introducing the 1000 most common Spanish nouns through easy-to-understand sentences. By mastering these essential nouns in daily contexts, you'll significantly improve your comprehension and communication skills. Each sentence comes with an English translation, making it ideal for self-study or classroom use. 
   
  Whether you're preparing for travel, boosting your career, or passionate about learning a new language, this book lays a strong foundation for your Spanish skills. You'll expand your vocabulary and learn to use these words naturally in conversations, helping you speak confidently and understand native speakers with ease. 
   
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  - 1000 common Spanish nouns in practical sentences 
   
  - Clear English translations for every sentence 
   
  - Suitable for beginners and intermediate learners 
   
  - Enhances vocabulary, comprehension, and conversational skills 
   
  - Great for self-study, travel, or classroom use 
   
  Start your Spanish learning journey today and see how mastering just 1000 common nouns can transform your communication skills. 1000 Common Nouns: Learn Spanish Through Simple Sentences is your essential guide to proficiency in one of the world's most widely spoken languages.

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  Digital Grooming - Discourses of...

  Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

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  Illicit digital activity is a substantial and growing problem. Extremists' use of social media over the past decade or so has raised increasing concern among governments and media corporations alike. In Digital Grooming Nuria Lorenzo-Dus analyzes manipulation practices in digital spaces that are situated at, or beyond, the boundaries of law. Lorenzo-Dus identifies and examines in detail the online discourse of adults luring children for sexual abuse and exploitation (digital sexual grooming); extreme ideology groups aligning others to their views (digital ideological grooming); and drug dealers soliciting business in crypto markets (digital commercial grooming). With sophisticated style and stance analyses of large and varied datasets, the book reveals that digital sexual, ideological, and commercial grooming practices have much in common. Three stances—expertise, openness, and avidity—scaffold this manipulative work, which constructs groomers and their targets as sharing a homogenous identity. 
   
   
   
  By shedding new light on grooming practices, this book provides a key resource for discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, communication, and media studies, as well as for practitioners aiming to counter online grooming through policy changes, detection software, and prevention-focused training to promote digital civility and safety.

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