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The Oxford starter Chinese dictionary / by Yuan, Boping.; Church, Sally Kathryn.;
Subjects: Chinese language; English language;
© 2000., Oxford University Press,
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Merriam-Webster's Chinese-English dictionary / by Amiot-Cadey, Gaëlle.; Merriam-Webster, Inc.; HarperCollins (Firm);
Subjects: Chinese language; English language;
© 2010., Merriam-Webster, Inc.,
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Mandarin Chinese phrase book & CD [sound recording].
Subjects: Chinese language; Mandarin dialects.; Chinese language; Chinese language; Chinese language;
© p2008., Berlitz,
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Mandarin Chinese guaranteed [sound recording]. by Berlitz Publishing Company.;
CD 1. Pronunciation, introductions, greetings, talking to friends -- CD 2. Nationalities, occupations, family, hobbies, numbers, dates, days of the week -- CD 3. Schedules, shopping, bargaining, hotel and restaurant reservations -- CD 4. Buying train and airplane tickets, asking for directions, accepting and declining invitations.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Chinese language; Chinese language; Chinese language;
© p2008., Berlitz,
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Chinese demystified : hard stuff made easy / by Ross, Claudia.;
pt. I: The basics of Mandarin Chinese -- 1. Mandarin Chinese pronunciation and characters -- Chinese around the world -- Spoken Mandarin -- The structure of the Mandarin syllable -- Tones -- Consonants -- Vowels -- Traditional and simplified Chinese characters -- Strokes -- 2. An overview of Mandarin grammar -- Parts of speech -- The building blocks of a Mandarin sentence --The order of information in a Mandarin sentence -- 3. Chinese names and titles -- Chinese names -- Titles and terms of address -- Addressing others -- 4. Numbers -- The numbers 1-10 and zero -- The number 11-19 -- The numbers 20-90 -- The numbers 100-999 -- The numbers 1,000-9,000 -- The numbers 10,000 and up -- Ordinal numbers -- 5. Using pronouns and nouns -- Pronouns -- Nouns -- Expressing And -- Expressing Both and All -- Indicating the number of nouns -- Expressing This and That --pt. II: Actions and verbs -- 6. Identifying nouns with linking verbs -- Expressing identity -- Expressing Family names -- Expressing someone's name -- 7. Adjectival and stative verbs -- Describing things with common adjectival verbs -- Using adjectival verbs with intensifiers -- Adjectival verbs in the predicate -- Expressing feelings with stative verbs -- Using stative verbs with intensifiers -- Expressing past states -- Comparing stative verbs that have similar meanings -- 8. Action verbs : talking about habitual, future, and ongoing actions -- Action verbs and duration -- Action verbs and their objects -- Talking about habitual actions -- Talking about future actions -- Talking about present-time actions and ongoing actions -- 9. Completed actions and actions that did not happen -- 10. Indicating possibility, ability, and permission with modal verbs -- 11. Expressing obligations, suggestions, and prohibitions -- Expressing commands --pt. III: Nouns, questions, and connections -- 12. Indicating possession -- Possession phrases that don't specify the thing possessed -- Word order and possession -- 13. Describing nouns with adjectival verbs and description clauses -- Describing nouns with adjectival verbs -- Describing nouns with clauses -- Composing Mandarin noun phrases with description clauses -- Translating Mandarin noun phrases with description clauses into English -- Identifying noun descriptions when the main noun is omitted -- Translating English relative pronouns -- Describing a noun with more than one description -- 14. Asking and answering yes-no questions -- 15. Asking and answering content questions -- Mandarin content question words -- Asking questions with content question words -- 16. Expressing "all" or "both" in relation to nouns -- 17. Linking verbs and verb phrases with "and" and "only" --pt. IV: Time and space, actions and comparisons -- 18. Location and distance -- Location words -- Indicating location with respect to a reference point -- Talking about things that exist at a location -- Indicating the place where an action happens -- Using location phrases to describe people, places, and things -- Words that indicate distance -- Expressing the distance between two locations -- Expressing near and far -- 19. Talking about time -- Talking about hours and minutes -- Reciting time -- Talking about the parts of the day -- Combining time expressions -- Talking about weeks and the days of the week -- Counting days and referring to surrounding days -- Talking about months and the dates of the month -- Talking about years -- Reciting complete dates: year, month, and date -- 20. Describing how actions are performed -- Describing an action when there is no object -- Describing an action when there is an object noun phrase -- Asking how someone performs an action -- Describing how someone performs a specific action -- 21. Making comparisons."Chinese Demystified walks you step by step through the fundamentals and moves on to more advanced topics. Each chapter concludes with a self-test that allows you to track your progress, and a comprehensive final exam at the end of the book gives instant feedback on new language skills. The book includes characters in simplified and traditional formats along with pinyin phonetic translation for easy pronunciation."--
Subjects: Chinese language; Chinese language; Chinese language;
© c2011., McGraw-Hill,
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Basic Mandarin Chinese [sound recording]. by Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm);
Subjects: Compact discs.; Chinese language; Chinese language; Chinese language; Chinese language;
© p2005., Simon & Schuster Audio,
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America for Americans : a history of xenophobia in the United States / by Lee, Erika,author.;
"The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In [this book], acclaimed historian Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Americans have been wary of almost every group of foreigners that has come to the United States. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed German immigrants for their 'strange and foreign ways.' Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement in the 1850s. Over the century that followed, Chinese immigrants were excluded, Japanese incarcerated, and Mexicans deported. Today, Americans fear Muslims, Central Americans, and the so-called browning of America. Xenophobia has not been an exception to America's immigration tradition, an episodic aberration on an inevitable march toward inclusion. It is, in fact, Lee argues, an American tradition in its own right, deeply embedded in our society, economy, and politics, Forcing us to confront this history, [this book] explains how xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens us all. It is a necessary corrective and spur to action for any concerned citizen."--Dust jacket.Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-395) and index."Strangers to our language and constitutions" -- "Americans must rule America" -- "The Chinese are no more" -- The "inferior races" of Europe -- "Getting rid of the Mexicans" -- "Military necessity" -- Xenophobia and civil rights -- "Save our state" -- Islamophobia.
Subjects: History.; Xenophobia; Immigrants; Minorities; National characteristics, American; Nationalism;
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In the land of invented languages : Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, Loglan lovers, and the mad dreamers who tried to build a perfect language / by Okrent, Arika.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-329) and index.Nine hundred languages, nine hundred years : Scaring the mundanes ; A history of failure -- John Wilkins and the language of truth : The six-hundred page rewrite ; A calculus of thought ; A hierarchy of the universe ; The word for "shit" ; Knowing what you mean to say -- Ludwik Zamenhof and the language of peace : A linguistic handshake ; Un nuov glot ; Trouble in Volapükland ; A nudist, a gay ornithologist, a railroad enthusiast, and a punk cannabis smoker walk into a bar ; Crank pride -- Charles Bliss and the language of symbols : Word magic ; Hit by a personality tornado ; Those queer and mysterious Chinese characters ; The spacemen speak ; The catastrophic results of her ignorance -- James Cooke Brown and the language of logic : The Whorfian hypothesis ; A formula for success ; Suitable apologies ; Meaning quicksand ; To menstruate joyfully -- The Klingons, the Conlangers, and the art of language : Flaws or features? ; The go-to linguist ; What are they doing? ; The secret vice -- Appendix A. The list of languages ; Appendix B. Language samples.Okrent tells the fascinating and highly entertaining history of man's enduring quest to build a better language. Peopled with charming eccentrics and exasperating megalomaniacs, the land of invented languages is a place where you can recite the Lord's Prayer in John Wilkins's Philosophical Language, say your wedding vows in Loglan, and read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in Lojban--not to mention Babm, Blissymbolics, and the nearly nine hundred other invented languages featured in this language-lover's book.
Subjects: Languages, Artificial.; Esperanto.; Klingon (Artificial language); Blissymbolics.; Lojban (Artificial language); Loglan (Artificial language); Kunsttalen.;
© 2009., Spiegel & Grau,
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The bridge on the River Kwai [videorecording] / by Spiegel, Sam.; Wilson, Michael,1914-1978.; Foreman, Carl.; Lean, David,1908-1991.; Holden, William,1918-1981.; Guinness, Alec,1914-2000.; Hawkins, Jack,1910-1973.; Hayakawa, Sesshū,1889-1973.; Donald, James,1917-1993.; Sears, Ann,1933-1992.; Horne, Geoffrey.; Boulle, Pierre,1912-1994.Pont de la rivière Kwaï.; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
DVD, widescreen (2.55:1) presentation.William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne.Music, Malcolm Arnold ; cinematography, Jack Hildyard ; editing, Peter Taylor.MPAA rating: PG.British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.Includes interactive and animated menus, scene selections with motion, theatrical trailer, talent files.
Subjects: Feature films; War films.; Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994; World War, 1939-1945; Burma-Siam Railroad; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© 2000., Columbia TriStar Home Video,
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The natural [videorecording] / by Levinson, Barry.drt; Johnson, Mark,1945 December 27-pro; Towne, Roger.aus; Dusenberry, Phil.aus; Redford, Robert.act; Duvall, Robert.act; Close, Glenn,1947-act; Basinger, Kim,1953-act; Brimley, Wilford,1935-act; Hershey, Barbara,1948-act; Prosky, Robert,1930-2008.act; Farnsworth, Richard,1920-2000.act; Newman, Randy.cmp; Malamud, Bernard.Natural.; Tri-Star Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);
DVD, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation.Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, Richard Farnsworth.Director of photography, Caleb Deschanel ; music, Randy Newman ; edited by Stu Linder.MPAA rating: PG.Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball stardom. As a 14-year old he fashions a baseball bat from an oak tree. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability. His talent also catches the eye of a sportswriter who eventually becomes instrumental in Hobbs' career. The appearance of a mysterious woman, however, shatters his dream. Years later Hobbs reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights and has an opportunity to share in their race for the pennant.
Subjects: Feature films.; Feature films; Fiction films.; Film adaptations.; Melodramas (Motion pictures); Sports films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Malamud, Bernard; Baseball players; Baseball teams; Man-woman relationships;
© c2001., Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment,
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