The Macquarie Compact Dictionary is based on the complete Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition. It is an up-to-date record of the core of Australian English, in a convenient format.The Macquarie Compact Dictionary features:- more than 50,000 words and phrases- up-to-date entries such as coercive control, long COVID, net zero, Omicron, range anxiety, Teal, truth-telling- pronunciations in the...

Macquarie Aboriginal Words is a dictionary of words from a selection of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.This ebook covers the languages of Diyari & Kaurna from South Australia.For each language, the following information is provided:· a brief history of the language· points on the grammar, spelling and pronunciation· an extensive wordlist organised by categories, such as animals, body parts, kin relationships, placenames, etc....

Macquarie Aboriginal Words is a dictionary of words from a selection of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.This ebook covers the Torres Strait languages of Meryam Mir & Torres Strait Creole.For each language, the following information is provided:- a brief history of the language- points on the grammar, spelling and pronunciation- an extensive wordlist organised by categories, such as animals, body parts, kin relationshi...

Macquarie Aboriginal Words is a dictionary of words from a selection of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.This ebook covers the languages of Nyungar, Gooniyandi, and Yindjibarndi from Western Australia.For each language, the following information is provided:· a brief history of the language· points on the grammar, spelling and pronunciation· an extensive wordlist organised by categories, such as animals, body parts, kin relatio...

Macquarie Aboriginal Words is a dictionary of words from a selection of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.This ebook covers the languages of Bundjalung, The Sydney Language and Wiradjuri from New South Wales.For each language, the following information is provided:· a brief history of the language· points on the grammar, spelling and pronunciation· an extensive wordlist organised by categories, such as animals, body parts, kin r...

Macquarie Aboriginal Words is a dictionary of words from a selection of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.This ebook covers the languages of Datiwuy, Eastern Arrernte, Murrinh-Patha from the Northern Territory.For each language, the following information is provided:- a brief history of the language- points on the grammar, spelling and pronunciation- an extensive wordlist organised by categories, such as animals, body p...

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the facts with Jack and Annie!!When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #11: Dark Day in the Deep Sea, they had lots of questions. How big is a giant squid? What is a dragonfish? How do deep-sea creatures find food when it’s so dark down...

This is a straightforward and user-friendly guide to the Tagalog language.Tagalog for Beginners is the book to help you learn Tagalog (Filipino) on your own, efficiently and accurately—whether you're traveling to the Philippines for a vacation or a business trip, or you have ties to the sizeable Tagalog-speaking community in the U.S., or you're merely a language lover.From the fascinating history of Philippines' language to how you speak it, join s...

One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar.As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’ has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10...

This handy book is a beginner's complete course in the Swahili language, designed especially for foreigners. The book is a result of the authoor's many years of teaching experience. It is divided into two parts: part one covers pronunciation; Swahili greetings and manners; classification of nouns; adjectives, verbs, adverbs, etc. in twenty-eight lessons and thirty-six exercises. part two includes a study of Swahili usage in specific situations (e.g. at home, in the market, on the road, at ...

The correct spellings, pronunciations, and definitions for interesting words that make life rewarding for readers, writers, and public speakers.With advancing technology, spontaneous-talk media has skyrocketed. People are interacting more frequently and more fervently than ever before, turning the English language into an indecipherable mess. Now, this unique and concise compendium presents the most confused words in the language today—words misused by careless spe...

National Geographic pairs gripping and gruesome stories of shark attacks with cutting edge research to illuminate a fascinating underwater world that few truly understand. Sharks are the world's most fascinating predators—capable of detecting a single drop of blood in 25 million drops of ocean and sensing electricity emitted by their prey. This ebook short takes readers deep into the realm of the very latest shark science, including new insights into the nature of shark attacks around the ...