language and languages

Describes a wide variety of activities and strategies for teaching foreign language to middle and high school students.

Examines how human language evolved, and argues that the use of language by humans was the driving force behind their development of superior cognitive abilities.

Explores the innumerable facets of language, discussing how languages are born, how conversations work, how people learn to read, how gestures and tone of voice impact communication, how people absorb grammatical rules, and other related topics.

Surveys the diversity of the world's languages to show what the true nature of language differences is and explores why learning languages is so hard for some people and so easy for others.

Traces the history of the world's greatest languages over the last five hundred years, exploring how cultural, political, social, and economic events impacted the development of languages.

Numerous foreign language aficionados share their career experiences. Contains dozens of descriptions of jobs that involve using other languages.

Investigates the possiblities of word play, the influence of other languages on English, and the use of words towards a specified end.

The story of how the human mind evolved and what happened once Homo sapiens learned to speak.

Jake and his dog try to communicate with the alien and alien dog that emerge from the spaceship that has landed in the yard.

Discusses the phenomenon of language, how it may have developed and how it is learned, and gives an overview of such languages as French, Japanese, and Hebrew.