NTC's Vietnamese-English Dictionary

NTC's Vietnamese-English Dictionary

Author: Dinh-hoa Nguyen

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Published: 1995-02-01

Total Pages: 748

ISBN-13: 9780844283579

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Includes 50,000 definitions and pronunciation tones for northern, central, and southern parts of Vietnam.


The Translator's Handbook

The Translator's Handbook

Author: Morry Sofer

Publisher: Schreiber Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0884003248

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Since 1997, this translator's guide has been the worldwide leader in its field and has elicited high praise from some of the world's best translators. It has been fully updated in the 2006 edition.


Vietnamese

Vietnamese

Author: Nguyễn Ðình-Hoà

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1997-09-02

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 9027283087

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An essential descriptive introduction to a South-East Asian language with over seventy million speakers, this book provides a conservative treatment of the phonology, lexicon and syntax of Vietnamese, with comments on semantics and history, with particular reference to writing systems, loan words and syntactic structures. All example texts are transcribed and glossed.Prof. Nguyễn Ðình-Hoà has based this grammar on his vast teaching experience and gives basic insights into “Vietnamese without veneer”.


The Global Translator's Handbook

The Global Translator's Handbook

Author: Morry Sofer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1589797590

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A practical guide to translation as a profession, this book provides everything translators need to know, from digital equipment to translation techniques, dictionaries in over seventy languages, and sources of translation work. It is the premier sourcebook for all linguists, used by both beginners and veterans, and its predecessor, The Translator's Handbook, has been praised by some of the world's leading translators, such as Gregory Rabassa and Marina Orellana.


The Reference Librarian's Bible

The Reference Librarian's Bible

Author: Steven W. Sowards

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-07-26

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 1440860629

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Divided into dedicated categories about the subjects most meaningful to librarians, this valuable resource reviews 500 texts across all major fields. Drawing on their collective experience in reference services and sifting through nearly 30,000 reviews in ARBAonline, editors Steven Sowards, associate director for collection at Michigan State University Libraries, and Juneal Chenoweth, editor of American Reference Books Annual, curated this collection of titles, most of which have been published since 2000, to serve collections and reference librarians in academic and public libraries. From the Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences and Encyclopedia of the Civil War to the Encyclopedia of Physics, Encyclopedia of Insects, and Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants to the formidable Oxford English Dictionary, The Reference Librarian's Bible encompasses every subject imaginable and will be your first stop for choosing and evaluating your library's collections as well as for answering patrons' questions.


Vietnamese

Vietnamese

Author: Binh Ngo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-27

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1315454599

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Vietnamese: An Essential Grammar is a concise and user-friendly reference guide to modern Vietnamese. It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language in short, readable sections. Features include: Clear and up-to-date examples of modern usage. Special attention to those points which often cause problems to English-speaking learners. Vietnamese / English comparisons and contrasts highlighted throughout. The final section covers pronunciation, providing an introduction to the syllable structure of Vietnamese, and highlighting common errors made by English-speaking learners. Accompanying audio tracks for this chapter are available at www.routledge.com/9781138210707. Vietnamese: An Essential Grammar is ideal for learners involved in independent study and for students in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types.


Elementary Vietnamese, Fourth Edition

Elementary Vietnamese, Fourth Edition

Author: Binh Nhu Ngo, Ph.D.

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2015-11-10

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1462915914

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For beginning learners of Vietnamese, here's everything needed to learn the language effectively! Speak, read and write Vietnamese as it's actually used in real-life contexts in Vietnam today. This book has everything you need to learn the language effectively and to quickly achieve basic proficiency. No prior knowledge of Vietnamese is necessary Learn to communicate in everyday situations Connect with the cultural context of the language Includes 8 hours of native-speaker audio recordings Elementary Vietnamese was originally developed for classroom use at Harvard University and is designed to provide a solid grounding in Vietnamese grammar, usage and pronunciation. The lessons are carefully structured to guide you through the essential sentence patterns from your first encounter with them in dialogues to more detailed explanations and exercises. Each lesson contains a helpful cultural note and commonly-used proverbs and idiomatic expressions. This revised edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments in the language and culture. It includes audio recordings by native Vietnamese speakers for all of the lessons. Innovative pronunciation drills help you to improve your pronunciation and new usage examples, exercises and photos explore the diversity, heritage and history of today's Vietnam.


Text, Context, Concepts

Text, Context, Concepts

Author: Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-05-02

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 3110899930

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The common aim of the contributions to this volume is to shed light on the communication of conceptual structures. The papers investigate how speakers rely on the same cognitive dispositions in three different areas of transfer: in the lexicalization of metonymies and metaphors; in intercultural communication; and in expert-lay communication.