Why This Book Is Unique This book reveals the paradise-like splendor found in the 7,107 islands of the Philippines and the character, nature, values, and customs of Filipinos. This book also outlines an uncomplicated but in-depth exploration of Filipino grammar to make it easier and simpler for the learner to form word and sentence constructions. The lexicon section of this book contains synonyms, correlations, similarities, and antonyms, making it more comprehensive and multifaceted than the other Filipino dictionaries in the market today. Also added in it are motivational topics and cautionary alerts. Previously and currently, most of the explanations and illustrations presented in this book have hardly been covered in other Filipino dictionaries written by other authors. The highlighting of the Spanish and English words in this dictionary can help increase proficiency or, at the least, familiarity with four languages, Tagalog, Ilocano, Spanish, and English, not to mention Bicolano, Cebuano, Ybanag, and Gaddang vocabularies that are added into this book. This book is an essential language reference book for all the libraries in the world. It also serves as a handy translation aid for foreigners doing business in the Philippines and for the foreign embassies that are based in the Philippines, as well as religious and medical missionaries, charitable institutions, language translators, tourists, foreign students enrolled in the Philippines, expatriates that settle in the Philippines, and anyone interested in learning about the Philippines and Filipino languages.
From the Taj Mahal to the Parthenon, from Gettysburg to Heidelberg, from Beacon Hill to Tower Hill, from the Great Wall to Hadrian's Wall, from Jerusalem to Kyoto, the International Dictionary of Historic Places presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include: location, description, and site office details; and a 3,000 to 4,000 word essay that provides a full history of the site and the condition of the site today. An annotated Further Reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry.
With over 500 ethnic groups living together on an archipelago of 13,670 islands, it is hard to find another country as diverse and colourful as Indonesia. One of the most populous countries in the world, Tanah Air Kita (the native name for Indonesia) boasts more than 40,000 species of flora and many animal species that cannot be found anywhere else on the planet. Volcanoes and glaciers, rain forests and savannah grasslands, man-eating Komodo dragons and the one-foot-tall Lesser mouse deer all call Indonesia home. This book explores this fascinating nation, its people and government, language and arts, food and festivals. It also takes a long look at how the country's economy has affected its environment and examines some issues which this troubled nation is facing.
Bengali vocabulary book + Bengali dictionary This Bengali vocabulary book contains more than 3000 words and phrases which are grouped by topic to make it easier for you to pick what to learn first. On top of that, the index in the second half of the book provides you with a basic Bengali-English as well as English-Bengali dictionary which makes this a great resource for learners of all levels. What you can expect from this book: This Bengali learning resource is a combination of Bengali vocabulary book and a two-way basic Bengali dictionary: Part 1 - Topic based Bengali vocabulary book: This is the main part of the book and represents a list of chapters each containing Bengali vocabularies for a certain topic. The Bengali vocabularies in the chapters are unsorted on purpose to separate remembering them from a defined alphabetical order. You can start at any chapter and dive directly into the topics that interest you the most. Part 2 - Basic English-Bengali dictionary: The index in the second half of the book can be used as a basic Bengali dictionary to look up words you have learned but can't remember or learn new words you need. Part 3 - Basic Bengali-English dictionary: Easy to use and with just the right amount of words, this third part finishes off with a second index that allows you to look for Bengali words and directly find the English translation How to use this Bengali vocabulary book: Not sure where to start? We suggest you first work your way through the verbs, adjectives and phrases chapters in part one of the book. This will give you a great base for further studying and already enough vocabulary for basic communication. The Bengali dictionaries in part two and three can be used whenever needed to look up words you hear on the street, English words you want to know the Bengali translation for or simply to learn some new words. Some final thoughts: Vocabulary books have been around for centuries and as with so many things that have been around for some time, they are not very fashionable and a bit boring, but they usually work very well. Together with the basic Bengali dictionary parts, this vocabulary book is a great resource to support you throughout the process of learning Bengali and comes in particularly handy at times when there is no internet to look up words and phrases.
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