Apprendre une langue étrangère est aussi fascinant qu'exigeant. L'apprentissage des langues se distingue des autres disciplines, comme les mathématiques, la géographie ou la composition de poèmes. Il ne s'agit pas simplement de s'asseoir et de mémoriser des centaines de pages et de formules, pour pouvoir se lever et commencer à parler la langue couramment et avec confiance. Cela prend du temps, demande de la patience, de la souplesse, de la créativité et beaucoup de travail. Au cours des 7 prochains jours, ce livre vous guidera à travers un processus très spécial et efficace pour apprendre n'importe quelle langue.

Learning a foreign language is just as beautiful as it is challenging. Learning a language is different from learning other disciplines, such as mathematics, geography, or poetry writing. You cannot simply sit down and memorize hundreds of pages and formulas and then stand up and speak the language fluently and confidently. It takes time, patience, resourcefulness, creativity, and hard work.In the next 7 days, this book will guide you through a very special and effective process in language learning.

This book is a crash course in learning Spanish. Spanish is a language that is considered easy to learn, and this book will teach the basics of the Spanish language in 7 days. The reader will first discover why we should learn Spanish. He will also learn about the Spanish alphabet and proper pronunciation, Spanish grammar rules, and basic conversational phrases in different scenarios.

This textbook includes all 13 chapters of Français interactif. It accompanies www.laits.utexas.edu/fi, the web-based French program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Tex's French Grammar (2000) www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ Français interactif is an open acess site, a free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees. Français interactif has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251) as an example of the open access initiative.

English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.