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Babel - Around the World in 20 Languages by Gaston Dorren
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500 tongues?Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these diverse ...Show more
Babel - Around the world in 20 languages by Gaston Dorren
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these t ...Show more
Lingo: A Language Spotters Guide to Europe by Gaston Dorren
$30.00 NZD
Category: Reference
Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us on an intriguing tour of the continent, from Proto-Indo-European (the common ancestor of most European languages) to the ris ...Show more
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