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Trivia Contest!
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Specials!
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Receive by Dec. 24!
Save on Platiquemos! Special pricing plus FREE bonus!
FREE Language Little Doll w/purchase of 4!
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Feature Article
Christmas Time Around The World
Christmas is enjoyed by millions of people around the world. Families gather and gifts are exchanged on December 25 to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Of course, Santa Claus is also a popular icon of the holiday. Santa Claus comes from the Dutch Sinterklaas, a reduction of Sint Nikolaas (Saint Nicholas). The real Saint Nicholas having been a bishop, Santa's red and white costume was derived from a bishop's robes. The Christmas tree, originally a German tradition, is said to have been derived in the 7th century from the story of St. Boniface. Many families include Advent in their Christmas tradition, which begins 4 weeks before Christmas and essentially is preparation for the holiday itself.
Of course not everyone celebrates Christmas. The winter months bring celebration for cultures around the world. Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Ramadan are widely observed by many people and cultures.
Hanukkah (Chanukah) honors the Jewish Festival of Lights. It celebrates the victory of the Maccabees and the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple. A menorah holds nine candles that are lit each night and gifts are exchanged. Eight of these candles honor the miracle of the oil that burned for eight days. This year, the eight days are December 19 to December 26.
Ramadan is a time for religious observation and contemplation in the Islamic faith. It begins at the sighting of the crescent moon that starts the ninth Islamic month. During this time ties to family and community are strengthened. For a month, observers assert their faith in many ways including fasting during the daytime. The 'Eid-ul-Fitr (Festival of Fast Breaking) is celebrated at month's end.
Kwanzaa is widely celebrated by African Americans from December 26 to January 1. Each day honors a principle with a candle being lit and gifts exchanged. The seven candles on a kinara represent (in Kiswahili) Umoja (unity), Kujichagulia (self-determination), Ugima (collective work), Ujamaa (cooperative economics), Nia (purpose), Kuumba (creativity) and Imani (faith). Kwanzaa, which translates to "first fruits", began in 1966, started by Maulana (Master-Teacher) Ron Karenga.
However you celebrate this winter season, Multilingual Books wishes you the best and a very happy new year!
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Product News
Holiday Gift Guide 2004
We have language products that make great gifts for students, multicultural families, or anyone interested in travel - just about anyone! Order this week to receive your item by Christmas. Several items are featured in this month's Newsletter Specials!
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Platiquemos: The Worlds Best Spanish Program - Give The Gift Of Fluency!
Choosing the right course is essential to your success in mastering Spanish, and with eight levels Platiquemos is the best choice for students at any stage of learning. Illustrations and explanations of the text make this course enjoyable and easy to use. Platiquemos has been highly rated by Heartland and the About.com Spanish guide. Each level includes a book and CDs or audio cassette tapes. Featured in this month's Newsletter Specials!
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Language Littles Speaking Dolls - An Adorable Way To Get Kids Started In Language!
These soft-bodied, sixteen-inch plush dolls represent children from France, Italy, China, Japan, Israel, Germany, Russia and Spanish-speaking countries. What makes them unique is their ability to introduce foreign language to children from preschool through grade school. Simply press one of the dolls hands and she will recite a series of "kid friendly" phrases. Press the other hand and she will count, recite colors, and/or days of the week; press a heart on the doll's knee and she will respond by saying "I love you". Each adorable doll offers a direct translation from English to her designated language for each phrase.
Please note: We sold out during the holidays in many languages last year; Order now to be sure of getting your Language Little! Featured in this month's Newsletter Specials!
$39.95
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Talk Now CD-ROM Language Courses - Learn The Fun Way!
Runs on Windows or Mac. Available in over 100 languages, Talk Now is a great starter course for learning almost any language. It teaches using sounds, pictures, and games. Talk Now also has "speak and repeat" - record and listen to your own voice for fast, sure progress. Ages 8 to adult. Featured in this month's Newsletter Specials!
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Movie Talk DVD-ROM Language Courses - Watch, Play, And Learn!
Combining the power of the movies and DVD-ROM technology, EuroTalk brings you an exciting language learning package that really works! Watch full-screen video and play games and exercises that make you remember what you've seen and learnt. Star in one of your favorite videos by joining in the action by recording your voice into the movie. Search for any word used in the script, or compete in a quick-fire TV Quiz. Packages are available for English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Windows and Macintosh DVD-ROM. Featured in this month's Newsletter Specials!
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Foreign Service Institute - The Course That Works!
Designed for diplomats and others who really need to learn a language, the Foreign Service courses are some of the best available. All of these courses come with a book and audio cassettes or CDs, and over 30 languages are available. Our exclusive CD versions have the quality and convenience of a CD along with the top-notch language teaching methods that the Foreign Service is famous for. Each CD version has been carefully digitally remastered for greatly improved sound quality as compared to the commonly available cassette versions and is exclusive to Multilingual Books.
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Muzzy Video Series (VHS or DVD, ages 3-13)
Muzzy is a very popular way for children to learn languages, and it also works as a supplement to language courses. Teachers love it because children watch it intently and enjoy learning. The award winning Muzzy program is available for Spanish, French, German, Italian in DVD or on VHS, and in Japanese, English and Irish Gaelic on VHS only.
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Language Tree Videos
Language Tree is an educational publishing company devoted to teaching languages in a completely accessible and user-friendly manner through videocassette and DVDs. Using advanced techniques and new media that tap into how children and adults are best able to acquire language, their tools enable learners of all ages to quickly and effortlessly gain spoken proficiency. They introduce a breakthrough way of teaching languages, incorporating a unique Multi-Cognition ApproachTM developed by a Stanford cognitive scientist, together with proven language learning techniques. This combined approach enables children and adults to learn more and better retain new phrases and vocabulary. Language Tree’s products serve as extremely effective supplemental tools that support language teaching in both home and classroom settings. Priced starting at $39.
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Tell Me More Language Software (for ages 9 to adult)
Tell Me More is Europe's best selling language software, used by major schools, universities and corporations. Tell Me More is a complete learning solution, with 200 hours of material per level, multimedia video and sound, and state-of-the-art speech recognition. Tell Me More speech recognition technology recognizes what you say, assesses your pronunciation, and corrects any mistakes. Tell Me More Version 6 is available in levels for the beginner or more advanced student, in 5 languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish and ESL.
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Pocket Translators
Hit the road with thousands of foreign words and phrases in your pocket! Call for advice on the best options. We only sell quality translators with a one year warranty.
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The Twisted Doors
The Twisted Doors is a bilingual French-English or Spanish-English illustrated mystery and grammar combined with an accompanying audio CD. Just read along and listen to the captivating mystery and improve or perfect your comprehension of spoken French or Spanish! Suitable for beginners, intermediates, self-learners, it offers educational material as taught at Purdue University's Gifted Education Resource Institute, was among the top 10 French resources picked by Laura K. Lawless for About.com, and received an AATF's editor rating of 5 Fleurs de lis. Each edition includes 46 chapters, 165 pages, 2-sided printing on 8" X 10" high-quality paper, 37 Victorian-style ink illustrations, and an audio CD with 46 tracks compatible with PC CD-ROMs, Mac CD-ROMs, car, portable, and home stereos. A package of 10 is also available for schools and teachers. Recommended for ages 8 to adult, beginner to
intermediate students.
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Musical Spanish Book and CD-ROM
Stacey Tipton has designed a course to teach Spanish the fun way with music. This highly acclaimed program is simple and effective and makes use of both sides of the brain. It is designed to teach students of all abilities to converse in Spanish quickly. The CD-ROM includes flash animations.
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Trivia Contest
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Last month's trivia questions and answers:
Please tell us what language the following phrases are from and what they mean.
Manzana malo: Bad apple - Spanish
Anteeksi: Excuse me - Finnish
Shei ya?: Who is it? - Chinese
Lutem: Please - Albanian
Ap Kaisa hai?: How are you? - Hindi-Urdu
Jambo: Hello - Swahili
Talaga?: Really? - Tagalog
Vislat: Goodbye - Hungarian
The winner of last month's contest is Ngan Chai Hou. Congratulations and thanks to all the entrants!
This month's trivia quiz:
The following holiday greetings are in which languages?
Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
Geseende Kerfees en 'n gelukkige nuwe jaar
Melkam Yelidet Beaal
Gajan Kristnaskon, Bonan Novjaron
Noeli Nziza, Umwaka Mwiza
The answers and the winner will be in our next newsletter. Winner will receive their choice of one Talk Now or World Talk language CD-ROM! No purchase necessary to enter.
E-mail your entry to:
info@multilingualbooks.com
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Christmas Celebrations The World Over
In keeping with the season, this month we are featuring Christmas Celebrations The World Over. Visit this page to see how Christmas is celebrated in countries from Albania to Vietnam! The wide variety of different customs is fascinating.
Check it out at http://www.theholidayspot.com/christmas/worldxmas/index.htm.
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December Newsletter Specials
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Save on Platiquemos Spanish Course - 4 Levels $299 Plus Holiday Bonus!
Platiquemos Spanish Course
The world's best Spanish course just got better! Don Casteel, fluent in several languages and a former Foreign Service Officer, is well trained in the FSI method. He has completely revised and improved "the course that works." This 2002 edition has improved audio with both male and female voices and over 200 illustrations with factoids, and the content is more contemporary than ever. This new version has retained the same grammatical and language content that has made this the most widely sold course on the language market. Eight levels are available to lead you to mastery of Spanish. Once completed you will be able to understand spoken and written Spanish; it will also allow you to actively engage in conversations with an abundant vocabulary of several thousand words.
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Collins Bilingual Talking Dictionary
Now you can have the highest quality bilingual dictionary always to hand. Each dictionary has over 80,000 words and phrases, more than 120,000 translations, and comes with tools for speedy and accurate translation of any text on your computer. Also included are computer-based learning exercises - crosswords, the Shooting Gallery which hones spelling skills, and the AudioPad for developing correct pronunciation. Available for French-English, German-English, Portuguese-English, Russian-English, and Spanish-English.
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Standard Deviants Spanish DVD
Add some spice to your class with the Standard Deviants Language Series! Textbooks are great but they can't help your students develop an ear for the language. The approach of the Standard Deviants series is to combine solid educational content with cutting-edge technology and top-notch writing. These award-winning videos and DVDs cut through the confusion with a clear and concise format, high-tech computer graphics, and a fun approach to serious education. To date, this formula has proved enormously successful. The Standard Deviants titles have won 19 Telly Awards for "Best Non-Broadcast Educational Video" and have also been named to the "Best Films and Videos" list by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Standard Deviants Spanish DVD information and ordering...
Order Platiquemos Levels 1-4 for just $299 PLUS get the Collins Bilingual Talking Dictionary FREE AND the Standard Deviants Spanish DVD for one week only! Use promo code MB-PCS-1201 to receive this special. Order today!
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FREE Language Littles Speaking Doll when you buy 4!
Language Littles Speaking Dolls
These soft-bodied, sixteen-inch plush dolls represent children from France, Italy, China, Japan, Israel, Germany, Russia and Spanish-speaking countries, and are expressly designed to represent many ethnic backgrounds, as opposed to the blonde, blue-eyed prototype so often seen on toy store shelves. What makes them unique is their ability to introduce foreign language to children from preschool through grade school. Unlike other speaking dolls, Language Littles have a human recorded voice. Simply press one of the dolls hands and she will recite a series of "kid friendly" phrases. Press the other hand and she will count, recite colors, and/or days of the week; press a heart on the doll's knee and she will respond by saying "I love you". Each doll offers a direct translation from English to her designated language with perfect inflection. They offer such instant rewards that kids will delight in showing off their 'fluency' in a new language, while keeping them gleefully occupied.
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We are proud to offer a great selection of language materials for children! See our Children's Books, Courses, and Software page for an overview, plus we have individual children's sections in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Save with a FREE Language Littles Speaking Doll when you buy 4 for one week only! Use promo code MB-FLL-1201 to receive this special.
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Talk Now and World Talk Now Only $39!
Talk Now and World Talk CD-ROM Courses
Talk Now is a beginning-level language course on CD-ROM available in over 100 languages from Afrikaans to Zulu, and is excellent for travelers who must pick up a language in a hurry. Available for Windows and Macintosh computers. We recommend the Talk Now! series for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, colors, numbers, food, shopping, time, countries, and so on. World Talk picks up from Talk Now! at an intermediate level, and follows on with over 20 languages in the same format of interactive learning with entertaining games and drills. Find out more about Talk Now courses at our Talk Now page.
For a limited time, get Talk Now or World Talk for only $39! Order today to save with our one week only newsletter special! Use promo code MB-TWC-1201 to receive this special.
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Movie Talk DVDs Only $45!
Movie Talk DVD-ROMs
Combining the power of the movies and DVD-ROM technology, EuroTalk brings you an exciting language learning package that really works! Watch full-screen video and play games and exercises that make you remember what you've seen and learnt. Star in one of your favorite videos by joining in the action by recording your voice into the movie. Search for any word used in the script, or compete in a quick-fire TV Quiz. Packages are available for English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Windows and Macintosh DVD-ROM.
For a limited time, get Movie Talk DVDs for only $45! Save with our newsletter special for one week only! Use promo code MB-MTV-1201 to receive this special.
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