self-instruction

Learn Mandarin Chinese in just 15 minutes a day with this revolutionary language learning system, now with an accompanying free app that is available in the App Store and Google Play.Practicing your language skills is quick, easy, and fun with 15-Minute Mandarin. There's no homework. Instead, use the visual guide and the free app to test yourself as you learn. Perfect your pronunciation by listening to native speakers, and learn from real-life examples that cover every holiday and business situation. Each full-color course book has themed chapters and common everyday scenarios, a menu guide, and translation dictionaries.Whether you're just starting to learn Mandarin Chinese or you want to brush up, there's no easier way to learn.

"This book teaches . . . all the basics of the Chinese language, including practical conversations, vocabulary, and how to write the basic characters--with manga comic strips for . . . learning! It enables [one] to begin communicating effectively from the first day. All Chinese words and sentences are given in Chinese characters and hanyu pinyin romanized form for . . . pronunciation, with English translations"--Provided by publisher.

A step-by-step guide to playing the ukulele, covering various chords and strumming patterns, and featuring basic and advanced playing techniques, and more.

A guide to playing the guitar that covers the kit, theory, tuning, picking, navigating the fretboard, chord variety, scales, bends, playing with expression, acoustic fingerstyle, improvisation, advanced soloing, and other related topics and offers tips on becoming an artist and guitar maintenance.

Teaches you how to play the ukelele with an easy-to-follow approach that makes learning fun. Includes different strumming techniques, folk, blues and country songs, and teaches you how to play by ear.

"DK's 15 Minute Language is the perfect course for busy people who want to learn Arabic fast. The 12 themed chapters are broken down into easy-to-follow 15-minute daily lessons spanning a range of practical themes, including leisure, business, food and drink, travel, and shopping. Each lesson combines vocabulary and grammar essentials with attractive full-color images, making it quick, easy, and fun to learn new Arabic vocabulary. There is no writing or homework--you simply use the cover flaps to hide the answers to exercises and test yourself as you learn. Each chapter ends with a review module, so you can track your progress and identify areas where you need further practice"--.

A guide for beginners on selecting, buying, and playing the guitar, covering both acoustic and electric, providing photo-illustrated instructions on techniques with chord diagrams, and including advice on amplifiers, electronic effects, and other accessories.

"Learn 5 new words every day through … illustrations and online audio. This … book will teach [the reader] to read and speak 1,000 Iralian words in just one year!" - Back cover.

"It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary. This English learner's edition presents the full text in English with helpful annotations in Spanish to aid reading and includes an English-Spanish glossary"--OCLC.

"Featuring over 800 first words with bright, bold illustrations, 'My First Book of Japanese' provides each word in English, Japanese (hiragana/katakana), and a romanization . . . Words are divided into . . . sections like kitchen, travel, and more, with a special emphasis on including foods and customs you'll find in Japan itself"--Provided by publisher.