If you want a holiday that's hassle-free, virtually pre-paid, and that lets you see lots of places while only needing to pack and unpack once, then you should try a cruise. This best-selling book is the cruise industry bible: it gives you all the information you need to choose the right cruise for you. Meticulously updated every year by cruise expert Douglas Ward, it is divided into two main parts: the first helps you work out what you're looking for in a cruise holiday and how to find it; the lively text and colour photographs describe every aspect of life on board, including safety, the highs and lows of the cruise experience and how to save money. The second part contains unbiased reviews and fascinating detail of almost 300 ocean-going cruise vessels, and grades them on service, food, entertainment and facilities, using an internationally recognised ratings system.
'Malay Phrase Book & CD' is ideal for use on a trip to Malaysia. In addition to all the phrases you will really need to express yourself in Malay, the phrase book offers a wealth of useful cultural tips on Malaysia and a dictionary featuring over 3000 entries. With its pocket-sized format and user-friendly design, it enables you to find what you need quickly and easily.
These new design phrase books feature over 8000 phrases and full-colour photographs throughout. They are packed with even more everyday phrases needed to speak confidently and practical advice and cultural tips sections that help travellers to understand the country they are visiting. Full-colour photographs help visually explain the currency, cash machines, ticket machines, motoring signs & much more. Bright, colour-coded sections enable access the phrase they need instantly and a new chapter focuses on business travel, travel with children & travel for the disabled. Sections cover the most popular situations - basic expressions and greetings, eating out, travel, sightseeing, shopping, health and more. Additional features include: grammar section, bilingual dictionary, full pronunciation guide, extensive menu reader, mini-dialogues for travellers to practice, cultural tips and cautions to help in social situations, and valuable safety tips.
Presents over eight thousand Polish words and phrases organized by theme to use in common situations, along with a simplified pronunciation guide and two-way dictionary.
This basic Polish language guide features more than 1200 essential phrases and a 2300-word dictionary covering situations most commonly faced by travellers including eating out, travel, sightseeing, shopping and health. The book includes a grammar section and a full pronunciation guide.
This landmark volume offers an introduction to the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign or second language. Recent growth in student numbers and the demand for new and more diverse Arabic language programs of instruction have created a need that has outpaced the ability of teacher preparation programs to provide sufficient numbers of well-qualified professional teachers at the level of skill required. Arabic language program administrators anticipate that the increases in enrollment will continue into the next decades. More resources and more varied materials are seriously needed in Arabic teacher education and training. The goal of this Handbook is to address that need. The most significant feature of this volume is its pioneer role in approaching the field of Arabic language teaching from many different perspectives. It offers readers the opportunity to consider the role, status, and content of Arabic language teaching in the world today. The Handbook is intended as a resource to be used in building Arabic language and teacher education programs and in guiding future academic research. Thirty-four chapters authored by leaders in the field are organized around nine themes: *Background of Arabic Language Teaching; *Contexts of Arabic Language Teaching; *Communicative Competence in Arabic; *The Learners; *Assessment; *Technology Applications; *Curriculum Development, Design, and Models; *Arabic Language Program Administration and Management; and *Planning for the Future of Arabic Language Learning and Teaching. The Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century will benefit and be welcomed by Arabic language teacher educators and trainers, administrators, graduate students, and scholars around the world. It is intended to create dialogue among scholars and professionals in the field and in related fields--dialogue that will contribute to creating new models for curriculum and course design, materials and assessment tools, and ultimately, better instructional effectiveness for all Arabic learners everywhere, in both Arabic-speaking and non-Arabic speaking countries.
Poland has had an exceptionally turbulent thousand-year history marked by extremes of national greatness and decline including patrition and foreign occupation. Currently undergoing another dramatic transformation, Poland has been building a democratic and market system since the fall of communism. The largest and most important nation in Eastern Europe, outside the ex-Soviet Union, is now returning to the European mainstream from which she was for long periods isolated politically and economically, although not culturally. Although Poland has been widely popularized in journalistic clich s in recent years because of Solidarity, the "Polish Pope" and the like, there is still much to be learned about the particular individuals and specific factors which have shaped her history in the past and which are molding her present development. The dictionary strikes a judicious balance in covering past and contemporary figures as well as Poland's richly-textured political, social, and cultural dimensions. The Dictionary has more than four hundred entries and a most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography. It provides a stimulating and knowledgeable introduction for students, scholars, and librarians as well as a helpful overview-guide for tourists and for those involved in teaching, business, politics, journalism, and public service.