Beautiful book, but for the wrong age

Advantages: Night light, calms children, more interesting when children are older
Disadvantages: Age rating too young should be higher

...with every single teddy she has, lined up and each teddy has a book, she is of course the teacher. I personally think it is lovely that my daughter still has a love for real books that are not on a kindle or other electronic device. But unfortunately this is how times are changing. ***About Wish Upon A Star*** Wish Upon A Star is a book to make bedtime easier with the glowing star on the front...

prettypolly40 27.03.2013 08:02 · Read review
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Review of Wish Upon a Star - Igloo Books Ltd

Introductory Linguistics

Advantages: covers many basic linguistic theories, includes activities and exercises to aid learning and development, very descriptive
Disadvantages: small font, can be hard to follow at times due to the bland-ish/ to-the-point factual information

...take over the conversation, interruptions and what they mean, etc. This is one of the better chapters especially for non linguists as it is more easily applied and viewed in light of our own language experiences. Chapter 7 is a more detailed summary of the whole book in the sense that it looks at both spoken and written language and defines the approaches used to study them both based...

js2ht2andl 05.05.2006 09:33 · Read review
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Review of Describing Language, Graddol, Cheshire and Swann - David Graddol, Jenny Cheshire, Joan Swann

Trask speaks my language!

Advantages: Interesting, engaging and informative
Disadvantages: Possibly slightly outdated now (but definitely still relevant)

...Language by R L Trask is more or less an absolute beginner?s guide to the study of linguistics. My university course included a couple of modules on language and power, and this book was a brilliant accompaniment to my studies. It was also a bit different to some of the other textbooks that I had to use in that it is so readable and genuinely interesting. The version that I have is the second...

ithoughtyoudneverask 10.12.2011 17:56 · Read review
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Review of Language - R.L. Trask