Download or read book Excuse Me Can You Repeat That written by Cathryn Cushner Edelstein and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT? The rules of communication are not universal - they are specific to particular cultures. Excuse Me, Can You Repeat That? is packed with tips and suggestions that afford the international student an inside look on how to successfully navigate verbal and nonverbal communication while pursuing studies and life in the United States. It goes beyond simply teaching students and U.S. visitors how to speak English. It delves into manners and the meaning of American English as it pertains to a variety of situations such as grocery shopping, attending a social gathering, eating at a restaurant, and attending classes. In addition, it explains how intonation patterns, pronunciation, and nonverbal language cues can completely change the meaning of the spoken word and demonstrates how to communicate in a way that will ensure speakers are clearly understood. Diagrams, charts and words to practice are an added value to this comprehensive English communication guide. WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK UNIQUE? Edelstein, a speech consultant and communication professor, bases her guide on 30 years of experience working with individuals who have come to the United States to work, study or live. Included in the book are enlightening comments from 50 foreign students, who have studied in the United States. The quotes were taken from a survey conducted by Edelstein that asked them from a communications perspective to compare what they thought studying in the U.S. would be like to what it was actually like once they began taking classes.
Download or read book We Need to Talk written by Celeste Headlee and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “WE NEED TO TALK.” In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee shows us how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversations BASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS NPR's Best Books of 2017 Winner of the 2017 Silver Nautilus Award in Relationships & Communication “We Need to Talk is an important read for a conversationally-challenged, disconnected age. Headlee is a talented, honest storyteller, and her advice has helped me become a better spouse, friend, and mother.” (Jessica Lahey, author of New York Times bestseller The Gift of Failure) Today most of us communicate from behind electronic screens, and studies show that Americans feel less connected and more divided than ever before. The blame for some of this disconnect can be attributed to our political landscape, but the erosion of our conversational skills as a society lies with us as individuals. And the only way forward, says Headlee, is to start talking to each other. In We Need to Talk, she outlines the strategies that have made her a better conversationalist—and offers simple tools that can improve anyone’s communication. For example: BE THERE OR GO ELSEWHERE. Human beings are incapable of multitasking, and this is especially true of tasks that involve language. Think you can type up a few emails while on a business call, or hold a conversation with your child while texting your spouse? Think again. CHECK YOUR BIAS. The belief that your intelligence protects you from erroneous assumptions can end up making you more vulnerable to them. We all have blind spots that affect the way we view others. Check your bias before you judge someone else. HIDE YOUR PHONE. Don’t just put down your phone, put it away. New research suggests that the mere presence of a cell phone can negatively impact the quality of a conversation. Whether you’re struggling to communicate with your kid’s teacher at school, an employee at work, or the people you love the most—Headlee offers smart strategies that can help us all have conversations that matter.
Download or read book Interchange Third Edition Full Contact Intro A written by Jack C. Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interchange Third Edition is a fully revised edition of New Interchange, the world's most successful series for adult and young adult learners of North American English. The course has been thoroughly revised to reflect the most recent approaches to language teaching and learning.
Download or read book Interchange Level 1 Student s Book 1 with Audio CD written by Jack C. Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interchange Third edition is a four-level series for adult and young-adult learners of English from the beginning to the high-intermediate level. The Interchange Third Edition Level 1 Student's Book builds on the foundations established in the Intro for accurate and fluent communication, extending grammatical, lexical, and functional skills. Topics such as school, work, leisure activities, entertainment, and food are presented in unique ways using interesting real-life information. The Student's Book contains 16 teaching units, frequent progress checks that allow students to assess and monitor their own learning, and a listening self-study section. Included is a Student Audio CD that contains the conversation, pronunciation, and self-study sections from the Student's Book.
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Download or read book Blood of My Brother 5 written by Yusuf T woods and published by Master Expressions LLC. This book was released on with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isha fell to her knees knowing that he would call again for her even with the sound of his last breath still echoing in her ears. She thought there was no way her hero, husband, child's father and best friend could be gone. "But he's so strong." she whispered when nothing came but the reality of his death she yelled. "Soon you will all be deaaadd!!!" The tears streaming down her face and shrills from her cries began to quiet for a brief moment as she uttered, "I define Dro! So Roc without a doubt you will surely meet the definition of a man! 'Many chronicles of war are never told, for they are trapped within the minds of the dead men who carried them; but few to none there are some people who are strong enough to pick up where the dead left off to give the definition to what words could no longer explain...Vengeance. "Definitions of a Man" picks up right where the Blood of My Brother IV ended with its own spin off Series (New Blood) as Isha plots the Destruction of an Empire.
Download or read book California Court of Appeal 2nd Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number of Exhibits: 9 Received document entitled: APPENDIX IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR WRIT
Download or read book Hana S Journey to Love written by Azor J. Racine and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanas Journey to Love Part 1: The Letters: I Love You What does it take for anyone to be happy? More importantly, what is real happiness? For Hanasha, having her husband and children with her is everything, even if she has many secrets. She thinks that if she smiles, her husband is content enough to not question her; however, for James, his little wife needs to do a lot better if she thinks she is going to run away from him. More so, if his children are going to increase, James needs to unveil all his wifes secrets in time, or risk losing her and his yet unknown child.
Download or read book Agriculture Decisions written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up to 1988, the December issue contains a cumulative list of decisions reported for the year, by act, docket numbers arranged in consecutive order, and cumulative subject-index, by act.
Download or read book The Other Side of the Mirror written by Bradley Lim and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you see when you look in the mirror? Your own reflection? Or are you actually looking into another world? Preston thinks he’s a pretty normal kid...until he puts on a pair of mysterious gloves that he finds on his pillow one morning. When he does, the mirror in his bedroom shatters like his dreams of becoming a professional NBA mascot for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Stepping through the star-shaped portal behind the mirror, Preston lands smack dang in the middle of the Reversed World. The Reversed World is nothing like the world Preston came from—and everything like it! Everything is backwards and just a little bit shaken up. Oh, and Preston is the Chosen One destined to stop the evil High King. No pressure, though. It’s only the fate of the world. Preston meets a wacky cast of characters who help him learn more about this world and his place in it. But will it be enough to rescue his parents and stop the High King? Will Preston save the world—or die trying? Featuring emotion, betrayal, and a lot of laughs, The Other Side of the Mirror is the first book in a series. Join Preston for some high-adrenaline adventure, very wacky laughs, and death-defying stunts. You won’t be able to put this one down.
Download or read book Running written by Natalia Sylvester and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero--while the whole country is watching. In this authentic, humorous, and gorgeously written debut novel about privacy, waking up, and speaking up, Senator Anthony Ruiz is running for president. Throughout his successful political career he has always had his daughter's vote, but a presidential campaign brings a whole new level of scrutiny to sheltered fifteen-year-old Mariana and the rest of her Cuban American family, from a60 Minutes-style tour of their house to tabloids doctoring photos and inventing scandals. As tensions rise within the Ruiz family, Mari begins to learn about the details of her father's political positions, and she realizes that her father is not the man she thought he was. But how do you find your voice when everyone's watching? When it means disagreeing with your father--publicly? What do you do when your dad stops being your hero? Will Mari get a chance to confront her father? If she does, will she have the courage to seize it?
Download or read book 27000 English Words Dictionary With Definitions written by Nam H Nguyen and published by Nam H Nguyen. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 27000 English Words Dictionary With Definitions is a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that has just the words completed description you want and need! The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words with their full description plus special Alphabet, Irregular Verbs and Parts of speech. It will be perfect and very useful for everyone who needs a handy, reliable resource for home, school, office, organization, students, college, government officials, diplomats, academics, professionals, business people, company, travel, interpreting, reference and learning English. The meaning of words you will learn will help you in any situations in the palm of your hand.
Download or read book Radical Passivity written by Benda Hofmeyr and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levinas’s ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible – that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own. This line of questioning found its inception in and drew its inspiration from the mass atrocities that occurred during the Second World War. The Holocaust , like the Cambodian genocide, or those in Rwanda and Srebrenica, exemplifies what have come to be known as the ‘never again’ situations. After these events, we looked back each time, with varying degrees of incomprehension, horror, anger and shame, asking ourselves how we could possibly have let it all happen again. And yet, atrocity crimes are still rampant. After Rwanda (1994) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1995), came Kosovo (1999) and Darfur (2003). In our present-day world , hate crimes motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, and mass hate such as genocide and terror, are on the rise (think, for example, of Burma, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and North Korea). A critical revaluation of the conditions of possibility of ethical agency is therefore more necessary than ever. This volume is committed to the possibility of ‘never again’. It is dedicated to all the victims – living and dead – of what Levinas calls the ‘sober, Cain-like coldness’ at the root of all crime against humanity , as much as every singular crime against another human being .
Download or read book Ferrets from Planet Ferretonia written by Liza N. Cooper and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meems and Feefs are ferrets from the planet Ferretonia. When they secretly carry out an experiment using Ferretonia's forbidden Ancient Tech, it all goes wrong, and they end up crash-landing on Earth! Meems is a smart, cheeky, and tech-savvy ferret from the planet Ferretonia. Feefs is his goofy, happy-go-lucky brother. Unsatisfied and bored with their quiet life on Ferretonia, the brothers build a forbidden Travel Opal to go on adventure but accidentally bite off more than they can chew and get stuck on planet Earth with no way to get home. The ferrets journey to an animal shelter where they meet a shy teen named Liza. After using a Communication Opal on Liza to transcend language barriers, Meems and Feefs put their trust in her and embark on a race-against-time adventure, or else they're doomed to stay on Earth forever! This laugh-out-loud and heartwarming graphic novel is perfect for readers 8+ and ferret fans of all ages.
Download or read book A Runaway Wife written by Sayidet Al Hijaz and published by ktab INC.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That last time I walked down the stairs, I remember my household help waiting to bid me goodbye. I have been up and down those oak-colored swirling stairs so many times, but they had never seemed that long before - like eternity this time. I take a step down with one foot, but the other does not want to follow. Yet, I know that I have to; I have no choice. I go to each and every room in the house. Here is where I usually sit and have lunch. That is his seat; I remember and see everyone sitting down having lunch. My six children each have their own seat and no one ever dares sit in the other’s place.
Download or read book Phrases for everyday communication written by John Stevens and published by Hueber Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trainingsbuch mit über 100 Übungen zur Verbesserung der sprachlich korrekten Ausdrucksfähigkeit in wichtigen Alltagssituationen, konzipiert für Niveaustufe A1 bis B1.
Download or read book Actors Without Scenes written by Kisuo Kyalo and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actors Without Scenes By: Dr. Kisuo Kyalo Actors Without Scenes reflects of contemporary issues seemingly virtual but perpetuated by secret societies manipulated to the contrary expectations. Amoso is a vibrant youth of the Kamba tribe, ever striving to remain flamboyant and maintain social integrity, despite his contorted struggle by unrealistic forces influencing his ultimate downfall. The tale reveals veined ideals obtained through experience and speculation that leads to moral fabric disintegration due to mysteries activities by the visible actors without scenes . The revelation of secrecy and manipulation by visibly symbolic may necessitate emancipation of the cocoon of ignorance coupled with prejudiced and bigotry of the author and readers, especially in prefabricating and actualizing dynamic and cultural dictates. The malpractices are encoded in the in the symbolic language that aggravates the misunderstanding of events, yet vivid to the agents of secret societies whose activities permeates socio-cultural and religious beliefs. Dr. Kisou Kyalo’s conceptualization clearly voices “hidden-in-plain-surface” information that may result in societal reformation.
