The secrets of how to improve your memory are fascinatingly revealed by Tony Buzan. He teaches you how to improve your memory for names, numbers, dates and lists, and also for speeches, articles, poetry, and whole books. There are sections for card players, for people learning new languages and for those studying for exams, as well as an intriguing chapter on how to recall your dreams.
Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism, the acquisition of two or more languages from birth, second language acquisition in adulthood, language change, linguistic typology, language processing and the structure of the language faculty.
Discover languages early. Students develop conversational skills in four foreign languages and develop a foundation to more fully participate in future language study.
Through multicultural stories, games and songs, students engage in activities that build overall language skills and their appreciation of different cultures. Curriculum Skills
* Develop conversational phrasing
* Understand basic vocabulary
* Discover sentence structuring
* Hear and speak special pronunciations
Special Features
* Four languages: French, Japanese, Spanish, and English
The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth: A Case Study
This book deals with the question of how children exposed to two languages simultaneously from birth learn to speak those two languages. After a critical and comprehensive survey of most of the literature on the subject, the author concludes that empirically well-documented knowledge in this area is very scant indeed. The core of the book concerns a naturalistic study of a Dutch-English bilingual girl around the age of three. The study's main aim is to explore the nature of early bilingual morphosyntactic development.
The volume examines the motives for lexical borrowing from English during the last century, the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments, and the extent of its integration into twelve languages representing several language families. Many of these absorbing languages are studied here for the first time.
