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Bezig met laden... Chitchat: Celebrating the World’s Languagesdoor Jude Isabella
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. An adorable and approachable book about the history and future of language. It covers early spoken sounds, alphabets and written languages, multiple languages, made-up languages, neologisms, sign language, and does it all in an entertaining and easily understandable way. ( ) This conversational history offers many tidbits of the origin of words, how languages came to be, language families, slang, unspoken language --sign language, and so much more. I can see reading a page here and there to deepen or being a lesson on grammar ("Grammar Day is March 4th" (p.8) Who knew?), a lesson on vocabulary ("By the time you're finished high school, you'll have a vocabulary of about 20,000 words" (p. 6) I think this might inspire kids to enrich their vocabularies. And you gotta love this: Shakespeare "liked to turn nouns into verbs. He 'friended' long before Facebook. And we can thank him for 'zany,' too." geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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How did language come to be? Why can we speak, while cats and dogs can't? When, how, and where did our 7,000 world languages come from? Isabella looks at languages-- spoken, written and signed-- to find out where they came from and how they're changing. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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