Teach Yourself: Improve Your Spanish

"Teach Yourself: Improve Your Spanish' is the ideal way to extend your language skills if you already have some knowledge of Spanish. Whether you've completed "Teach Yourself Spanish" or any other beginners' Spanish course, either by yourself or at evening class, this course should help you build on your existing knowledge and improve your spoken and written language. The book covers a wide range of topics of the sort you will want to talk about when in Spain and teaches you the kind of everyday language and features of speech that will enable you to communicate with confidence and feel comfortable taking part in conversation with native speakers of Spanish. The choice of material aims to give you something of the flavour of Spain today and each unit is based around a single theme with lively interviews and conversations on the accompanying recording.

Juan Kattán-Ibarra was born in Chile and lived in Spain for a number of years. He has degrees in foreign language teaching from the University of Chile, Michigan State University, Manchester University and the Institute of Education, London University. He taught Spanish at Ealing College and Shell International, and was an examiner in Spanish for the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the University of London School Examinations Board. He is now a full-time author.

Improve Your French

If you are learning French and want some extra help with vocabulary, this book is for you - it will give you the words you need to communicate with confidence. Each unit of the book starts with "Basics". Check that you know all these words. When you think you know the words, try "Test your basics". Next is "Extension" - this will get you to learn more words and will help with problems such as difficult verbs before trying the exercises in the next section. Finally there is "Recap" should help you check, remember and write down what you have done. At the end of each unit you will find an answer key to check your work.

Foreign Service Institute - French I

MASTERING FRENCH is part of a series of language courses being presented by Baren's
This foreign language word power builder takes a thematic approach to words and meanings. Each book presents approximately 5000 words with translations divided by themes that include business terms, medical terms, scientific terms, household terms, and many more. Here's a fine supplementary reference source for language classes, language labs, and readers of specialized foreign language publications.

GMAT Data Sufficiency Prep Course

Comprehensive Prep for GMAT Data Sufficiency

Every year, students pay $1,000 and more to test prep companies to prepare for the math section of the GMAT. Now you can get the same preparation in a book.

Although data sufficiency problems are difficult, they are very learnable. GMAT Data Sufficiency Prep Course presents a thorough analysis of GMAT math and introduces numerous analytic techniques that will help you immensely, not only on the GMAT but in business school as well.

Features:

Comprehensive Review: Twenty-four chapters provide the most thorough review of data sufficiency math available.

Practice: Includes 196 examples and more than 205 exercises!

Performance: If your target is 700+ score, this is the book.

Strategies for the TOEFL iBT

Increase your TOEFL iBT score by increasing your speaking and writing scores. How? By using the strategy called argument mapping. Why argument mapping? Because the TOEFL iBT speaking and writing sections are all argument-based tasks. That means if you want high speaking and writing scores, you must know how to map out (develop and deliver) spoken and written arguments, quickly and proficiently. With argument mapping, you will be able to do just that. Best of all, you can apply argument mapping to all six speaking tasks and both writing tasks. That means you will spend less time reading about strategies and more time practicing them.

You Will Also Learn:

* Essential rhetorical strategies and opinion development strategies
* Step-by-step basic responses for all speaking and writing tasks
* Step-by-step advanced responses for all speaking and writing tasks
* Step-by-step emergency responses for all speaking and writing tasks
* How to revise your spoken and written responses to maximize scoring
* How to rate spoken and written responses quickly and proficiently

ARGUMENT DEVELOPMENT
Learn basic and advanced argument development strategies to maximize your speaking and writing scores. By doing so, you can increase your TOEFL score.

ARGUMENT MAPPING
Learn test-proven speaking and writing strategies quickly and proficiently using the graphics-based strategy called argument mapping.

SCORING STRATEGIES
Learn how to think like a TOEFL rater so you know exactly what to say and write to maximize scoring.

Chinese Characters: Learn & Remember 2,178 Characters and Their Meanings

A systematic, building block-style plan for mastering the most daunting aspect of learning Chinese—how to remember the meaning of more than 2,000 of the most common characters—is provided in this handbook. Beginning with the simplest of strokes, such as those for numbers, scepter, and earth, and progressing to the extremely complex, such as destroy, insert, and mouse, this manual presents a methodology employing memory techniques to associate meanings with the characters’ visual components. A sequence of numbered panels displays each character in two font styles, and a notation in the adjacent margin describes the character’s pinyin pronunciation. Graphics that identify the components or characters from which the featured characters are drawn, and a listing of both the names of these root components, and the panel numbers that cite their location in the book augment the presentation. Beginners will be best served by using this guide in conjunction with the development of language skills, while those who are familiar with the language will find this book to be a comprehensive reference and refresher.