textbooks for foreign speakers

"This full-color illustrated handbook introduces and explains Han characters and idioms through the language of emoji"--Amazon.

Teaches Chinese vocabulary and characters and presents information on Chinese culture, covering such themes as the body, weather, transportation, and food.

"This book helps [the reader] to ... learn the intermediate-level Chinese characters [one will] need to know if they want to live or work in China, along with 1200 related vocabulary and phrases"--Back cover.

Improve your comprehension, grow your vocabulary and ignite your imagination with these eight unconventional Spanish short stories!.

Teaches Spanish vocabulary in eight thematic categories: the home, around town, the countryside, clothing, animals, body parts, opposites, and useful expressions, and includes flash cards and an audio CD featuring games and pronunciation by native speakers.

Presents an introduction to the Yiddish language, explains how it differs from Hebrew, provides lessons in the Yiddish alphabet, words for simple conversation, social expressions, and vocabulary related to family, home, excursions, and other situations, and includes reading passages.

Presents a guide to Modern Standard Arabic, a common version of the language, including essentials such as grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, and sections on basic expressions, transportation, touring, and handling emergency situations.

Contains sixteen short stories from the Spanish-speaking cultures of Latin America, presented in English with the Spanish translation on facing pages, and includes a bilingual vocabulary list.