Multilingual Books April Newsletter

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• Feature Article - Language skills develop at 6, say researchers
• Product News - Language Learning Software - Top 10 Products
• Featured Site - UCLA Language Materials Project
• Language Trivia Contest - Answer correctly and win FREE language products!
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2. Language Associates FSI Courses

3. Platiquemos Spanish Course

4. Say It With Sign ASL Video Course

5. Language Tree Children's Videos

6. Musical Spanish: Lessons for the Road

7. Language Associates FSI Digital Downloads

8. Pimsleur Audio-only Courses

9. World Talk CD-ROM Language Courses

10. Spanish On The Go Preloaded MP3 Player

Last month's quiz:

Many words appear in more than one language; sometimes they have the same meaning, sometimes a quite different one. I'll give you the word in English and it's meaning in another language; you give the other language.

Gift: poison, German
Bond: jump, French
Once: eleven, Spanish
Camera: room, Italian
Strand: swimming pool, Hungarian
This last one proved difficult and is perhaps a bit too loose a usage of the term. "Strand" is commonly used to refer to a kind of public swimming and bathing facility in Hungary (see "Palatinus Strand" etc.) but translates more directly in Hungarian and several other languages as "beach". Beach-related answers were accepted.

This month's winner is Demian R. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who entered.

This month's quiz:

As this was a popular theme, let's go again: Below see words in English and their meaning in another language; you give the other language.

Pretender: to try
Hunt: wolf
Bra: good, well
Pole: field
Mist: manure

Need a hint? Here are 4 of the 5 languages, in alphabetical order: German, Polish, Spanish, Swedish.

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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