Comparing languages : English and its European relatives
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Comparing languages : English and its European relatives
（Awareness of language）
Cambridge University Press, 1991
- pbk
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ISBN 9780521334860
Description
Part of a series aimed at 11-14 year-olds which examines the way languages work, this book reveals that other European languages are not necessarily so "foreign" and that a "Superman" comic can be related to Dutch, German, Swedish, Italian, Spanish and French.
Table of Contents
- Why compare languages?
- how they got there
- a language map
- the sounds we make
- writing the sounds down
- how languages work
- Dutch
- German
- Swedish
- Italian
- Spanish
- French
- minority languages
- how English links up
- English - the great collector.
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pbk ISBN 9780521336383
Description
Part of a series aimed at 11-14 year-olds which examines the way languages work, this book reveals that other European languages are not necessarily so "foreign" and that a "Superman" comic can be related to Dutch, German, Swedish, Italian, Spanish and French.
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