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Multilingual Books May Newsletter
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Thanks for reading the Multilingual Books newsletter, your source for foreign language news, information, and product information and specials from Multilingual Books. In this issue:
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EuroTalk's Complete Set
Originally EuroTalk's Complete Set of four CD ROMs and a DVD-ROM will help you to learn a language step-by-step. From complete beginners through to intermediate learners, there is a disc for everyone. By listening and talking to native speakers in real life situations, these discs makes learning easy. Start with Vocabulary Builder, aimed at children and their families, using cartoon characters to make learning fun. Talk Now is ideal for beginners to build confidence in listening to and speaking a foreign language. Talk More for beginners helps to increase your language skills and prepare yourself for the next level with the latest interactive techniques and broadcast quality video. World Talk is for intermediates, and works to improve listening and speaking skills and build on fluency. Finally, Movie Talk is a DVD-ROM using popular television series available for English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian - all other complete sets include a Talk More extras disc including the 'Where on Earth' geography game instead. Available for Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, and Thai. |
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Feature Article
Impairments in language development can be detected in infants as young as 3 months
From Eurekalert.org
Speech problems could be corrected before child learns to talk
Uncover how the brains of infants distinguish differences in sounds and it may become possible to correct language problems even before children start to speak, sparing them the difficulties that come from struggling with language.
New studies conducted by Professor of Neuroscience April Benasich and her Infancy Studies Laboratory at Rutgers University in Newark are revealing new and exciting clues about how infant brains begin to acquire language and paving the way for correcting language difficulties at a time when the brain is most able to change.
Benasich and her lab were the first to determine that how efficiently a baby processes differences between rapidly occurring sounds is the best predictor of future language problems. Using methods developed by Benasich and her lab, it can be determined as early as three to six months whether a baby will struggle with language development.
Benasich’s research is now focused on uncovering in specific detail how the developing brain processes and distinguishes acoustic differences that arrive in rapid succession. The ability to differentiate those sounds, such as the difference between "ba" and "da," is critically important because decoding language requires us to process tiny auditory differences occurring as quickly as 40 milliseconds. During the first months of life, the baby’s developing brain also is involved in constructing an acoustic map of the sounds of his or her native language. That map allows the baby to efficiently acquire language. Apparently, however, in some infants the process seems to go awry.
About 5 to 10 percent of all children beginning school are estimated to have language-learning impairments (LLI) leading to reading, speaking and comprehension problems, according to Benasich. In families with a history of LLI, 40 to 50 percent of children are likely to have a similar problem. Many of these children go on to develop dyslexia.
See the article in full at: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/ru-iil041008.php
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Trivia Contest
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This month's quiz The first entry with all correct answers will win a Foreign service Digital course in French, Italian or Spanish. Send answers to multilingualbooks@gmail.com. No purchase necessary to enter. A: Tulips are associated with which European country?
Belgium
Denmark Netherlands France B: One of the (non-English) words for each color is made up, which one is it?
Blue
French: Asul Spanish: Azul German: Blau
Purple
Dutch: Grazpa Spanish: Morado Italian: Vialo
Green
French: Grecia Spanish: Verde German: Grün
Yellow
French: Jaune Spanish: Amarillo German: Yallow Have a favorite item of language trivia? Send it to contest@multilingualbooks.com. You will receive credit for your contribution if your item is used. |  |
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Featured Website
The World Atlas of Language Structure (WALS)
WALS is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of more than 40 authors (many of them the leading authorities on the subject). WALS consists of 141 maps with accompanying texts on diverse features (such as vowel inventory size, noun-genitive order, passive constructions, and "hand"/"arm" polysemy), each of which is the responsibility of a single author (or team of authors). Each map shows between 120 and 1370 languages, each language being represented by a symbol, and different symbols showing different values of the feature. Altogether 2,650 languages are shown on the maps, and more than 58,000 datapoints give information on features in particular languages.
Check it out at https://wals.info/
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May Newsletter Specials
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iPod Classic 120 GB with Platiquemos or French FSI for only $575 We are now offering combined packages of the iPod Classic portable music/video player with either the Platiquemos Spanish course or the French FSI course for a further reduced price of $575! Now you can study language anywhere, with a portable audio package that is tiny, reliable, and robust! With this tiny player, you can carry a year's worth of language lessons, practicing pronunciation and conversation drills with the MP3 audio tracks, and upload a PDF lesson and read or print it out on any computer. This package was |
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Free Shipping on Pocket Translators (Great for summer travel!) Try our Pocket Translators and Electronic Dictionaries, with dictionary sizes of up to 2 million words and phrases, you will not find a more comprehensive pocket translator available at any price! The ultimate tool for language learners, enthusiasts, and travelers. (Note: The shipping fee will be refunded to your credit card after processing). MB recommends: the AM99 English/Chinese Talking Electronic Translator is an especially good pocket translator for Americans travelling in China, and is available for the low price of $150! |
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Save $120 on French in Action and Destinos DVD Packages Part I and II - now $475 each! Destinos and French in Action are DVD instructional series in Spanish and French for college and high school classrooms and adult learners, and teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills. In Destinos the format is a telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, which immerses students in everyday situations with native speakers and introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. In French in Action, Pierre Capretz’s proven language-immersion method is presented within a humorous teleplay with native speakers of all ages and backgrounds. |
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$20 off any Children's purchase if $100 or more! Just enter the promo code KIDS20 in the promo code field when ordering, and we will refund the $20 on your credit card when processed. |
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