Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognise letters and common words in Hebrew script. Whether you're travelling and want to understand the words around you, or preparing to learn Hebrew and want to master the basics, this is the book for you. In this book you will find: · An introduction to Hebrew script · Plenty of practice activities to help you recognise each letter of the alphabet · Helpful mnemonics to make you remember the shape of each letter · Accompanying audio files so you know how to pronounce letters and words · Handy tips to help you decipher common and familiar words The audio for this course can be downloaded from the Teach Yourself Library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com. Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 80 years.

Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognize letters and common words in Arabic script. Whether you're traveling the want to understand the words around you, or preparing to learn Arabic and want to master the basics, this is the book for you. In this book you will find: An introduction to Arabic script Practice activities to help you recognize each letter of the alphabet Helpful mnemonics to help you remember the shape of each letter Accompanying audio files, so you know how to pronounce letters and words Handy tipes to help you decipher common and familiar words

Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognise letters and common words in Greek script. Whether you're travelling and want to understand the words around you, or preparing to learn Greek and want to master the basics, this is the book for you. In this book you will find: · An introduction to Greek script · Plenty of practice activities to help you recognise each letter of the alphabet · Helpful mnemonics to make you remember the shape of each letter · Accompanying audio files so you know how to pronounce letters and words · Handy tips to help you decipher common and familiar words The audio for this course can be downloaded from the Teach Yourself Library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com. Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.

Whether you're traveling and want to understand the words around you, or you're preparing to learn Hindi and want to master the basics, this is the book for you. Using a unique tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and effectively recognize letters and common words in Persian (Modern Persian/Farsi) script. Whether you're traveling and want to understand the words around you, or you're preparing to learn Hindi and want to master the basics, this is the book for you. In this book, you will find: - An introduction to Persian (Modern Persian/Farsi) script - Plenty of practice activities to help you recognize each letter of the alphabet - Helpful mnemonics to make you remember the shape of each letter - Accompanying audio files so you know how to pronounce letters and words The audio for this course can be downloaded from the Teach Yourself library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com. Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 80 years.

Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognize letters and common words in Korean script. Whether you're traveling and want to understand the words around you, or preparing to learn Korean and want to master the basics, this is the book for you. In this book you will find: An introduction to Korean script Plenty of practice activities to help you recognize and write each letter of the alphabet #ScriptHacks including helpful mnemonics to make you remember the shape of each letter Accompanying audio files so you know how to pronounce letters and words Handy tips to help you decipher common and familiar words The audio for this course can be downloaded from the Teach Yourself Library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com. Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.

Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognise letters and common words in Russian script. Whether you're travelling and want to read and understand the words around you, or preparing to learn Russian and want to master the basics, this is the book for you. In this book you will find: · An introduction to Russian script and the Cyrillic alphabet · Plenty of practice activities to help you recognise each letter of the alphabet · Helpful mnemonics to make you remember the shape of each letter · Accompanying audio files so you know how to pronounce letters and words · Handy tips to help you decipher common and familiar words The audio for this course can be downloaded from the Teach Yourself Library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com. Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.

This open access volume reveals the hidden power of the script we read in and how it shapes and drives our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures. Expanding on the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (i.e., the idea that language affects the way we think), this volume proposes the “Script Relativity Hypothesis” (i.e., the idea that the script in which we read affects the way we think) by offering a unique perspective on the effect of script (alphabets, morphosyllabaries, or multi-scripts) on our attention, perception, and problem-solving. Once we become literate, fundamental changes occur in our brain circuitry to accommodate the new demand for resources. The powerful effects of literacy have been demonstrated by research on literate versus illiterate individuals, as well as cross-scriptal transfer, indicating that literate brain networks function differently, depending on the script being read. This book identifies the locus of differences between the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans, and between the East and the West, as the neural underpinnings of literacy. To support the “Script Relativity Hypothesis”, it reviews a vast corpus of empirical studies, including anthropological accounts of human civilization, social psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, applied linguistics, second language studies, and cross-cultural communication. It also discusses the impact of reading from screens in the digital age, as well as the impact of bi-script or multi-script use, which is a growing trend around the globe. As a result, our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures are now growing closer together, not farther apart.