Multilingual Books July Newsletter

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In this issue:

• Feature Article - Males and females use different parts of brain in language tasks
• Product News - New - Download FSI Czech - Top 10 Products
• Featured Site - Translation Mistakes
• Language Trivia Contest - Answer correctly and win FREE language products!
• Newsletter Specials - Special offers only for our newsletter subscribers!

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Language Associates FSI Czech is now available in a downloadable version! The Language Associates Digital Editions are the popular FSI courses in full digital format - all course material is included, but all audio is in MP3 format and all reading material is in PDF format. These courses are considered by many to be the best and most complete language courses available. Get the benefits of full FSI courses with increased portability and substantial savings! Please note that Digital Edition courses require a computer capable of playing MP3s and displaying PDF files. Digital Edition downloads are currently available for French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Thai, Arabic, Portuguese, Igbo, and Iraqi.

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1. Language Associates FSI Courses

2. Platiquemos Spanish Course

3. Talk Now CD-ROM Language Courses

4. Tell Me More Language Software

5. Musical Spanish: Lessons for the Road

6. Language Tree Videos

7. Muzzy Childrens Language Courses

8. Language Littles Speaking Dolls

9. Foreign Language Videos

10. Spanish On The Go Preloaded MP3 Player

Last month's quiz:

Euskara is also known as what language? Basque.
What do Basque and Korean have in common? They are language isolates; languages that are not related to any other language.
Give the native language and English translation of these phrases:
All the phrases are Basque.
Ez dut ulertzen. I don't understand.
Gaua, gogapenen ama. Night is the mother of thought.
Odolak, su gabe diraki. Blood boils without fire.
Any reasonably correct translation was accepted.

Last month's winner is Javier E. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who entered.

This month's quiz:

Give the definitions of the following words. What do they have in common?

virgule
tilde
caret
eroteme
ampersand

The answers and this month's winner will be in our next newsletter. Winners receive their choice of one Talk Now or World Talk language CD-ROM! No purchase necessary to enter.

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