"Since it was first established in the 1970s, the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the exploration of practical problems in human communication and language education. Drawing extensively on empirical research and theoretical work in ling…
Colloquial French grammar: a practical guide
by Ball, Rodney
fromBlackwell reference grammars
"The many differences between formal and informal, written and spoken French are one of the most striking features of the language, and can cause problems even for its native speakers. Colloquial French Grammar provides a practical, non-technical survey of those aspects of morph…
A guide to learning everyday Spanish that includes thirty dialogues that focus on specific language functions and demonstrate how to use the different slang terms that are found in the Spanish language.
"This book is the first to focus exclusively on this growing topic. It begins with basic coverage of typical approaches used in SLU, such as favourite classification methods and modeling techniques, and discussion of the terminology used. It then provides state of the art approa…