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Danish: An Essential Grammar Review

September 8th, 2010 No comments
Danish: An Essential Grammar (Essential Grammars)

DANISH: An Essential Grammar by Robin Allan, Philip Holmes, and Tom Lundskaer-Nielsen is an abridged version of the authors’ DANISH: A Comprehensive Grammar (New York: Routledge, 1995). This smaller version is targeted to beginning and intermediate students of the Danish language.
The grammar gives the basic accidence and syntax of Danish. The grammar is most useful [...]

French for Le Snob: Adding Panache to Your Everyday Conversations Review

September 3rd, 2010 No comments
French for Le Snob: Adding Panache to Your Everyday Conversations

The book is pretty good for what it says, but there is this weird vegetarianism proselytizing that eventually gets to be a bit much to trudge through.If I’d wanted a book on vegetarian French, I would have searched for one.Which I didn’t, but I got one anyway — which left me feeling a bit tricked.It’s [...]

The Big Red Book of Spanish Grammar w/CD-ROM Review

August 31st, 2010 No comments
The Big Red Book of Spanish Grammar w/CD-ROM

This is the best book ever on the subject of Spanish grammar!It explains EVERYTHING in detail.I was using multiple references trying to understand certain aspects of grammar, but I no longer had to do that once I got this book.It is very thorough.Exercises are available on the cd-rom if you want practice.It does not have [...]

Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction Review

August 30th, 2010 No comments
Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction

Radford is well known for his comprehensible textbooks of generative syntax. This book is very helpful for beginners to get access to Chomsky’s revolutionary ideas in his minimalist program (MP), which is radically different from his previous versions of grammar.What is the particular ofthis book is that the reader does not need to learn Chomsky’s [...]

In-a-Flash: Vocabulary, 7E Review

August 22nd, 2010 No comments
In-a-Flash:  Vocabulary, 7E (In a Flash Vocabulary)

A superior vocabulary can make all the difference between a great SAT score and a disappointing score. The SAT candidate will come across challenging vocabulary in the readings, in the answer choices, and in the sentence completion activities.”In-A-Flash” provides extensive practice for over 360 frequently tested words with a variety of activities such as – [...]