The complete Vietnamese language guide designed to get you speaking, reading and writing quickly!

This comprehensive and engaging language guide gives beginning learners everything they need to speak, read and write Vietnamese with minimum fear or fuss. Learners will appreciate the extensive introduction to the alphabet, sounds and tones of the language, the lively dialogues and grammar notes, helpful etiquette tips and insights on life in Vietnam today.

This book has several unique features:

• Two introductory chapters devoted to presenting the Vietnamese alphabet, with free online audio recordings by native speakers designed to help you master the difficult sounds and tones of the language
• Contemporary real-world dialogues about daily life, travel and family in Vietnam—presented in text form and in entertaining manga-style comic strips
• Illustrated readings and proverbs offering authentic windows into traditional and modern Vietnamese culture
• Plus 200 free downloadable flashcards and extensive glossaries at the back of the book

It is the book to help you learn Tagalog (Filipino) on your own, quickly and accurately—whether you’re travelling to the Philippines for a vacation or a business trip, or you have ties to the sizeable Tagalog-speaking community in the U.S., or you’re merely a language lover.

From the fascinating history of Philippines’ language to how you speak it, join skilled teacher Barrios on a guided introduction—with a practical focus. After journeying through the carefully-paced explanations, conversations, cultural info, and activities in Tagalog for Beginners, learners will be able to use Tagalog (Filipino) in a wide range of everyday situations. From shopping for food to asking directions, from telling time to expressing how you feel, this book gives you the communication skills you need. The online audio recordings help reinforce pronunciation and improve listening comprehension.

Helpful suggestions guide heritage learners (those of Filipino descent but born outside the Philippines) on how to use the book most effectively for their needs.

Key features include:

• Accompanying online audio recordings.
• Realistic dialogues to bring the language to life.
• Activities and exercises to help you read, write, speak and understand.
• Notes on the Tagalog language and history.
• A specific section guides native (heritage) learners and instructors on how to use the book most effectively for their needs.

Korean has been called “the most logical language there is,” and with this friendly and thorough introduction you can quickly begin speaking conversational Korean!

With a lighthearted and effective approach, Korean for Beginners starts by showing you just how reasoned and logical the Korean alphabet—hangul—is, and helps you master it quickly. Using realistic situations and conversations needed in modern Korea, commonly used vocabulary and detailed lessons, soon you’ll be able to say with pride, “I know Korean!”

This book is for people who want a grasp of how to speak, write and understand Korean—and who want to enjoy things while they’re at it!

• Filled with fun manga illustrations and practical situations
• Online companion audio recordings provide native-speaker pronunciation of words and phrases
• 40 short videos by teacher Bryan Park teach you how to pronounce the Hangul alphabet, vowels, and consonants

After completing Korean for Beginners,you will be able to:

• Speak Korean as it’s spoken today and read Korean hangul with ease!
• Converse with confidence using practical phrases and dialogues
• Successfully communicate in modern Korean situations, such as navigating cities, ordering food in restaurants or making plans

Japanese for Beginners is a straightforward learning guide which enables beginners to pick up a functional knowledge of spoken Japanese very quickly and easily.

This complete Japanese language package has helped many thousands of people learn to speak colloquial Japanese. It is designed for busy people who wish to pick up a working knowledge of Japanese on their own in just a few days, rather than a few years. Japanese for Beginners makes this possible by providing a firm grounding in grammar and sentence structure using dialogues and vocabulary that reflect authentic Japanese situations and manga comic strips to emphasize contemporary culture and humor.

Key features of Japanese for Beginners:

• Practical Japanese phrases help you converse with ease.
• Comic strips (Japanese manga) and dialogues bring Japanese to life.
• Exercises help you to practice speaking and listening.
• Online audio features native Japanese speakers to help you pronounce Japanese like a pro.

Drills and exercises are included in each chapter to help you practice the sentence patterns and vocabulary, and the native speakers audio recordings are invaluable in teaching the correct pronunciation of Japanese words

Selamat datang! Learn to read, write, and speak Indonesian!

By completing the 12 lessons in Indonesian for Beginners, you will learn not only to understand, speak, read and write basic Indonesian, but also about many important aspects of Indonesia’s amazingly diverse culture, people, and places. This book provides a gateway to understanding the Indonesian language and country, and helps you to apply what you learn in a way that is relevant, meaningful and fun.

The course is structured around the concept of spending a year in Indonesia—experiencing different seasonal events which bring the learner on a journey. In this way, the cultural and background information becomes a natural part of the understanding of the Indonesian language and helps you to place what you learn into context within a full narrative about life in Indonesia.

Each chapter contains the following elements:

• An introduction with images and captions
• Grammar points
• A word bank presenting key vocabulary
• One or more sample conversations
• Listening practice and readings
• An “Indonesian and me” section that uses Indonesian to talk about yourself
• Key questions and statements
• Drills and exercises

Indonesian for Beginners includes reading, writing and speaking tasks based on authentic real-life materials. While aimed at learners taking a classroom course, it can also be used by anyone studying Indonesian in other ways—in a high school course or as a self-study book.

Hindi for Beginners is a Hindi self-study guide and language learning package aimed at helping students learn Hindi in a natural manner.

It engages them to use the Hindi language in real life situations actively. Accompanying audio with clearly annunciated dialogues spoken by native Hindi speakers ensures correct pronunciation and builds listening comprehension. Clear task-based instructions, concise and to-the-point explanations of grammatical structures, and lesson plans help enhance student’s understanding and speed up their ability to learn Hindi.

The subject matter is geared towards all learning styles and is organized around day to day conversations such as:

• Self- introduction
• Pleasantries
• Describing home
• Hiring transportation
• Hotel booking
• Reporting a theft
• Shopping
• And much more…

Hindi for Beginners can be used for instructional purposes in a classroom setting or to maintain individual linguistic capabilities such as reading, listening, speaking and writing through a wide array of activities. This book also includes the Romanization of vocabulary and dialogues as they are pronounced, to help learners pronounce them correctly and clearly in the absence of a Hindi speaker or a teacher, without any difficulty.

Perfect for self-study or classroom learners, this Farsi language book takes a user-friendly approach.

Farsi for Beginners is a complete language course by experienced teacher Dr. Saeid Atoofi, which will help you to speak the language and open doors to Persian culture. This second edition is updated to include IT and social media vocabulary and downloadable audio files.

Whether for pleasure, travel or business, language learners will find these lessons clear and easy to follow. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to understand short sentences, express your basic needs, and read and write the 32-letter Farsi alphabet.

Farsi for Beginners contains the following essential features:

• Dialogues and stories about a family traveling to contemporary Iran
• Downloadable native-speaker audio recordings help you to pronounce Farsi accurately
• Idioms, sayings and poems introducing you to the cultures in which Farsi is used
• Extensive exercises with answer keys to guide your learning process
• Photos and insider cultural tips teach you about Persian culture

This beginner-friendly guide teaches you how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by drawing parallels with something you already know—English!

Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem quite difficult to learn at first, but can be picked up easily if you focus on practical, daily conversations. This revised edition contains new dialogues, cultural notes, IT and social media vocabulary, and new manga illustrations.

Designed for anyone who wants to speak and understand conversational Chinese—whether for business, pleasure, or travel to China—this lighthearted guide makes language learning fun!

• Real-life dialogues and situations help you to converse with confidence
• Sentence pattern exercises and drills help to reinforce what you are learning
• Native-speaker audio recordings enable you to pronounce Chinese vocabulary accurately
• Interesting notes, idioms, sayings and poems introduce you to Chinese culture

Chinese for Beginners contains many extra hints and tips drawn from the authors’ many years of experience in teaching the language to foreigners. Answer keys for the exercises are provided, and an “Extend Your Vocabulary” section in each chapter helps you to remember and understand more words than you’d think possible!

A complete beginning language course for Modern Standard Arabic!

This is an ideal introductory textbook—quickly teaching you everything you need to get started learning this beautiful and popular language. Spoken by over 400 million people, Arabic is the world’s 5th most spoken language.

Each of the 20 lessons in this book includes:

• A real-life, practical dialogue that increases your proficiency and ability to communicate, and online audio recordings.
• The free online audio recordings by native speakers help you learn how to accurately pronounce all the Arabic words and sentences provided
• A list of common Arabic words and phrases along with sentence patterns and grammar notes
• Extensive drills and exercises to reinforce the lessons and help you progress
• Interesting information on culture, geography, customs, pastimes and everyday life
• “Reflections” that allow you to record what you have learned, helping you track your progress

Arabic for Beginners teaches you how to read and write the Arabic script, and comes with a set of free downloadable flash cards to help you memorize the alphabet and basic vocabulary. A glossary at the back allows you to look up the equivalents for common Arabic and English words.