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The Best Books About Language Learning & Linguistics

The Best Books About Language Learning & Linguistics

FromThe Fluent Show


The Best Books About Language Learning & Linguistics

FromThe Fluent Show

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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Apr 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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Lindsay is back on the Fluent Show today and we're talking about the best books about languages and linguistics.
*NOTE: The Fluent Show is now on a podcast break until 6 May, but you can catch up with mini episodes of "Fluent in Isolation" at Patreon.com (http://www.patreon.com/fluentshow)
We discussed the following books - all linked below on amazon.com and on hive.co.uk.
Popular Science
David Crystal’s ANYTHING, out of which we discussed
Encyclopedia of Language
You say Potato
Spell it out
Becoming Fluent by Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts
Lingo and Babel by Gaston Dorren
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
Academic Books
Teaching and Researching: Motivation by Zóltan Dörnyei and Ema Ushioda
An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching by Keith Johnson
Guide/Entertainment
Tingo by Adam Jacot de Boinot
Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner
How to Speak Any Language Fluently by Alex Rawlings
Fluent in 3 Months by Benny Lewis
PLUG: Oh hey, I wrote some too! (www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/boxset)
Want the best textbooks and phrasebooks for language learning?
Click here to discover our other book-themed episode about the best language learning textbooks. (https://www.fluent.show/174)
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Released:
Apr 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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