Dreaming In Other Languages

Author : Deborah Fallows
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780802779243

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Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows Pdf

Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering the behavior and habits of its people,and its culture's conundrums. As her skill with Mandarin increased, bits of the language-a word, a phrase, an oddity of grammar-became windows into understanding romance, humor, protocol, relationships, and the overflowing humanity of modern China. Fallows learned, for example, that the abrupt, blunt way of speaking that Chinese people sometimes use isn't rudeness, but is, in fact, a way to acknowledge and honor the closeness between two friends. She learned that English speakers' trouble with hearing or saying tones-the variations in inflection that can change a word's meaning-is matched by Chinese speakers' inability not to hear tones, or to even take a guess at understanding what might have been meant when foreigners misuse them. In sharing what she discovered about Mandarin, and how those discoveries helped her understand a culture that had at first seemed impenetrable, Deborah Fallows's Dreaming in Chinese opens up China to Westerners more completely, perhaps, than it has ever been before.

Author : Joyce Jennifer Lu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3511440

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Dreaming in Other Languages by Joyce Jennifer Lu Pdf

Author : Katherine Russell Rich
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Americans
ISBN : 1846272629

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Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich Pdf

Having survived a serious illness and now at an impasse in her career, the author accepts a freelance assignment to go to India, where she finds herself utterly overwhelmed by the place and the language. Before she knows it, she's on her way to Rajasthan to live with a local family and join a language school offering 'total immersion'.

Author : Cristina García
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307798008

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Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García Pdf

“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post

Author : Jennifer Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521583169

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Coleridge on Dreaming by Jennifer Ford Pdf

This book is the first in-depth investigation of Coleridge's responses to his dreams and to contemporary debates on the nature of dreaming, a subject of perennial interest to poets, philosophers and scientists throughout the Romantic period. Coleridge wrote and read extensively on the subject, but his richly diverse and original ideas have hitherto received little attention, scattered as they are throughout his notebooks, letters and marginalia. Jennifer Ford's emphasis is on analysing the ways in which dreaming processes were construed, by Coleridge in his dream readings, and by his contemporaries in a range of poetic and medical works. This historical exploration of dreams and dreaming allows Ford to explore previously neglected contemporary debates on 'the medical imagination'. By avoiding purely biographical or psychoanalytic approaches, she reveals instead a rich historical context for the ways in which the most mysterious workings of the Romantic imagination were explored and understood.

Author : Robin MacPherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987400607

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How to Maintain Languages by Robin MacPherson Pdf

Learning a foreign language truly is a wonderful experience that opens up doors into new worlds and enriches our lives beyond measure. Unfortunately, many people all over the world come back to their foreign language to find the door locked, because we don't talk enough about how to actually maintain language skills once we've acquired them. The good news is that the process of properly maintaining a foreign language is just a beautiful as learning one. In fact, I would argue that it can be even more enjoyable. This book is not just for people who have already learned a foreign language to a high level. It is packed full of useful tips and advice, and properly understanding this process while you are learning will help you set yourself up for a successful and sustainable, multilingual lifestyle. This book also teaches how to maintain multiple foreign languages, for aspiring polyglots. It also comes with some free, downloadable resources and an accompanying YouTube series where Robin implements all of the advice from his book.(https://goo.gl/2CgJfW) Whatever your reasons are for maintaining your foreign language(s), and whatever challenges you are facing to that end, this book will teach you a variety of simple but effective techniques and strategies for achieving your goals.

Author : Gardner Eeden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692891986

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Lucid by Gardner Eeden Pdf

Lucid: Awake in the World and the Dream is a primer for the evolution of human consciousness. A biconscious writer, Gardner Eeden, lays the groundwork for how to live simultaneously in the world and the dream world, relating his unique experience as well as dissecting the current scientific and spiritual notions of what dreams are. This is a provocative, often irreverent work that blends fiction, science, real experience and metaphysical ideas that will guide readers to new possibilities in their own consciousness and will have readers wondering what they are truly capable of in the world and the dream.

Author : Michael Schredl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781003850786

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Analyzing a Long Dream Series by Michael Schredl Pdf

Analyzing a Long Dream Series provides an extraordinary insight into the richness and variability of dreams, considering over 12,000 dreams that have been recorded for more than 30 years. Internationally recognized dream scientist Michael Schredl opens up his own personal dream series, offering a unique window into the interplay between waking life and dreaming. The book considers a huge range of dream topics, including family, friends, schoolmates, colleagues, erotic dreams, alongside the appearance of everyday objects. It also discusses rarer themes such as pain perception, temperature perception, and typical dreams about toilets, exams, and teeth. As the author is both the dreamer and the researcher, questions like why we dream about topics we have never experienced in waking life – for example, about the pain of being shot in the stomach – can be addressed, shedding light on the creative nature of dreams. The in-depth analyses provided in this book attempt to answer the field's most profound questions: why do we dream every night, and why do we dream in such creative ways about the issues that are important to us in waking life? The dreams analyzed question existing dream theories such as simulation theories, and the author proposes a function of recalled dreams for creative problem solving and provides ideas for future research. This fascinating book is an essential read for all dream researchers and students of the psychology of dreams.

Author : Jean Campbell
Publisher : Wordminder Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0972910328

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Group Dreaming by Jean Campbell Pdf

Jean Campbell's book looks at the power that two or more people can tap when striving to dream the same dreams. She describes several different group dreaming experiments conducted over a period of ten years and tells about The World Dreams Peace Bridge.

Author : Alice Kaplan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226424408

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Dreaming in French by Alice Kaplan Pdf

“Alice Kaplan’s triple portrait of three iconic mid-century American women dazzles beyond our evergreen fascination with [their] wildly disparate lives.” —Patricia Hampl, New York Times Notable author A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women. All three women would go on to become icons, key figures in American cultural, intellectual, and political life, but when they embarked for France, they were young, little-known, uncertain about their future, and drawn to the culture, sophistication, and drama that only Paris could offer. Yet their backgrounds and their dreams couldn’t have been more different. Jacqueline Bouvier was a twenty-year-old debutante, a Catholic girl from a wealthy East Coast family. Susan Sontag was twenty-four, a precocious Jewish intellectual from a North Hollywood family of modest means, and Paris was a refuge from motherhood, a failing marriage, and graduate work in philosophy at Oxford. Angela Davis, a French major at Brandeis from a prominent African American family in Birmingham, Alabama, found herself the only black student in her year abroad program—in a summer when all the news from Birmingham was of unprecedented racial violence. Kaplan takes readers into the lives, hopes, and ambitions of these young women, tracing their paths to Paris and tracking the discoveries, intellectual adventures, friendships, and loves that they found there—experiences that would continue to influence them for the rest of their lives. “An elegant and entertaining work.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Author : Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel,Magdalena Szyszka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319143347

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The Ecosystem of the Foreign Language Learner by Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel,Magdalena Szyszka Pdf

This volume examines selected aspects of the foreign language learning process from an ecological perspective, adopting a holistic view on complex interrelations among and within organisms (L2 language learners) and their milieus (family, school and society). First of all, the personal ecosystem of the learner is taken into consideration, whereby two powerful influences are intertwined: cognitive and affective aspects. The learning space formed by the individual is largely shaped by their affective states coexisting in conjunction with their cognitive processes. Moreover, this specific space is also modified by a wider array of other personal ecosystems or those of cultures. Hence, the ecosystem of the foreign language learner is also subject to influences coming from sociocultural leverage that can be represented by people they know, like parents and language teachers, who can both directly and indirectly manipulate their ecosystem. At the same time other important forces, such as culture as a ubiquitous element in the foreign language learning process, also have the power to shape that ecosystem. Accordingly, the book is divided into three parts covering a range of topics related to these basic dimensions of foreign language acquisition (the cognitive, affective and socio-cultural). Part I, Affective Interconnections, focuses on the body of original empirical research into the affective domain of not only L2 language learners but also non-native language teachers. Part II, Cognitive Interconnections, reports on contributions on language learners’ linguistic processing and cognitive representations of concepts. The closing part, Socio-cultural Interconnections, provides new insights into language learning processes as they are affected by social and cultural factors.

Author : James W. Goll
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780768499728

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Dream Language by James W. Goll Pdf

After centuries of neglect, the church is rediscovering the realm of dreams and visions as a legitimate avenue for receiving divine revelation. In Dream Language, James W. Goll provides an insightful and helpful handbook to this fascinating and little-known world. Based on extensive study and filled with personal insights from his years of walking in this realm, the author builds a solid framework for how Christians today can receive, understand, interpret and apply dream revelation from the Holy Spirit. Whether you are beginning to walk in this realm already or simply want to understand more about it, Dream Language is the perfect guide.

Author : Brian Clive Devlin,Samantha Disbray,Nancy Regine Friedman Devlin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811020780

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History of Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory by Brian Clive Devlin,Samantha Disbray,Nancy Regine Friedman Devlin Pdf

This book provides the first detailed history of the Bilingual Education Program in the Northern Territory of Australia. This ambitious and innovative program began in 1973 and at different times it operated in English and 19 Aboriginal languages in 29 very remote schools. The book draws together the grassroots perspectives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners and researchers. Each chapter is based on rich practitioner experience, capturing bottom-up aspirations, achievements and reflections on this innovative, yet largely undocumented language and education program. The volume also makes use of a significant collection of ‘grey literature’ documents to trace the history of the program. An ethnographic approach has been used to integrate practitioner accounts into the contexts of broader social and political forces, education policy decisions and on-the-ground actions. Language in education policy is viewed at multiple, intersecting levels: from the interactions of individuals, communities of practice and bureaucracy, to national and global forces. The book offers valuable insights as it examines in detail the policy settings that helped and hindered bilingual education in the context of minority language rights in Australia and elsewhere.

Author : Melissa Fagan,Karlien de Villiers,Marike le Roux
Publisher : Bookdash
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PKEY:548f8d42-e51a-44ad-b2bf-ce047146d0d7

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Graca's Dream by Melissa Fagan,Karlien de Villiers,Marike le Roux Pdf

The inspiring story of Graça Machel, and her dream to instill a love for reading and learning in the children of Mozambique and the rest of Africa.

Author : David Dean Shulman,Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN : 9780195123364

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Dream Cultures by David Dean Shulman,Guy G. Stroumsa Pdf

This work offers a comparative cross-cultural history of dreams. The authors examine a range of texts concerning dreams, from a variety of religious contexts (including China, the Americas and Greek and Roman antiquity) to explore the ways in which different cultures experience the world of dreams.