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1. Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z

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2. Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet

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3. Read and write Hindi script (Teach Yourself)

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4. Verbal Advantage: 10 Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary

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5. Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)

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6. British Sign Language [Book/DVD Pack] (Teach Yourself)

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7. Arabic Script Hacking: The optimal pathway to learning the Arabic alphabet (Teach Yourself)

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8. Intermediate Japanese: Your Pathway to Dynamic Language Acquisition

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10. How to Build a Better Vocabulary

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11. Learn to Read Hebrew in 6 Weeks

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12. Words Their Way Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers (2nd Edition)

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14. Remembering the Kanji 2: A Systematic Guide to Reading Japanese Characters

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15. The Maze Game

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16. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story

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19. Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

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u/IamChurchill · 3 pointsr/Sat



Hey you can use any or all of the below mentioned resources:

WEBSITES:

  1. Khan Academy; Official partner of the College Board. It consists of videos & questions related to each & every section of the SAT Test with detailed explanations & performance tracking. And it's totally free!
  2. UWorld; This websites boasts of having a collection of more than 1800+ questions. with detailed explanation, detailed rationales for incorrect answers, performance tracking, vivid illustrations, track time to improve your speed, compare your results to peers and a lot more. PAID.
  3. 1600.io; Offers multidimensional online instruction for the SAT. In addition to it also offers course-by-course basis preparation. It covers about 3,000 real SAT questions in 200 hours of video instruction. Although I don't have an experience with this site but it's highly appreciated by other test takers. PAID.

    BOOKS:

  • Mathematics: Personally I don't fine this section on SAT abstruse so I think following books are more than enough to ace the SAT-Maths section;

  1. The College Panda's SAT Math: Advanced Guide and Workbook for the New SAT; The best thing about this book is that it focuses on every particular section of SAT making it easy to comprehend & more helpful than the books that randomly talks about all the topics at once. Practice questions are incredible and are backed-up with Nielson's very simple & easy to understand answers & explanations. Also, there is a Website and any errors made in printing are mentioned on it.
  2. The College Panda's 10 Practice Test For The SAT Math; Running out of Practice test? Want something more? Well this book has some relatively realistic versions of the SAT's mathematics sections (both calculator and no-calculator).
  3. PWN The SAT: Math Guide; Still not satisfied with your SAT preparation? Longing for something more? When you're done with this book you'll be able to approach the SAT with confidence - very few questions will surprise you, and even fewer will be able to withstand your withering attacks.

  • Writing:

  1. The Ultimate Guide To SAT Grammar, 4th Ed; It isn't about drilling as most of them (books) are. It's about the philosophy of the SAT. Author backs up her advice with relevant questions from Khan Academy in each chapter & provides comprehensive coverage of all the grammar & rhetoric tested on the redesigned SAT Writing & Language Test. Two things that you'd miss - lack of enough practice questions & its overpricing (Especially for International Students). She had a Website where you can look-up for Errata & other college related information. You'll also get a practice question each day prepared by Erica herself!
  2. The Ultimate Guide To SAT Grammar WB, 4th Ed; Fall short on practice questions? Need something to execute what you've learned so far? This accompanying workbook to The Ultimate Guide to SAT® Grammar contains six full-length tests in redesigned SAT format, each accompanied by thorough explanations designed to reinforce the concepts and strategies covered in the main grammar book.
  3. The College Panda's SAT Writing: Advanced Guide & WB, 2nd Ed; This one is truly geared towards the student aiming for the perfect score. It leaves no stones unturned. It has clear explanations of all the tested SAT grammar rules, from the simplest to the most obscure, tons of examples to illustrate each question type and the different ways it can show up, hundreds of drills and practice questions to help you master the concepts and a lot more. AND, THREE PRACTICE TESTS.

  • Reading: Probably the "hardest-to-score" section on the SAT test.

  1. The Critical Reader, 3rd Edition; Intended to clearly and systematically demystify what is often considered the most challenging section of the SAT, this book provides a comprehensive review of the reading skills tested on the redesigned exam for students who are serious about raising their scores. Meltzer's explanations and tricks are very descriptive and include hints to easily discern the correct answer through process of elimination. Major drawback? Well, it lacks enough practice questions & is highly overpriced!

  • ESSAY: For this section I'd say Khan Academy + these 2 books are more than enough. If you work with these modestly I guarantee you can easily achieve a perfect score on SAT Essay;

  1. The College Panda's SAT Essay; The writer covers all of the main facets of the new SAT Essay, including the scoring, structure and key elements of a rhetorical analysis, combined with more strategic advice regarding such topics as paragraph structure, transitions, vocabulary usage, length, writing speed, quotations, examples, and the elements of persuasion. Author's high-scoring essay from the May 2016 exam is included where he shares everything from what he did right as well as the subtle things he initially missed.
  2. SAT Vocabulary: A New Approach; Covers key vocabulary for the Reading Test, Writing and Language Test, and Essay. This book offers an approach that is aligned with the new SAT’s focus on vocabulary in context. The concluding chapter on the Essay is short but outstanding. The chapter features a particularly helpful presentation on 6 persuasive devices, a list of 25 top Essay vocabulary words, and best of all a real Level 24 essay written by a real student on the November 2016 SAT.

    Hope this helps. If liked, please don't forget to up-vote. And all the best for your preparation and test.
u/sansordhinn · 2 pointsr/linguistics

I don't think it's necessary, no. But if you're the kind of person that benefits from this kind of thing, it can be beneficial. Sorry for being tautological =)

If you was about to learn new swimming styles, are you the kind of person who would go to the library and research on books about sports science as applied to swimming? If learning the guitar, do you brush up on music theory and try to understand the patterns of notes and chords in the fretboard? Before reading poetry, do you study about metrical forms and the history of styles? If you're that kind of person, you might have fun studying some linguistics and then trying to apply it to the languages you learn. Ocasionally it might even be useful!

As for book recommendations, I think one of the most useful areas you can investigate is phonetics and phonology, the study of linguistic sounds. Spoken languages are made of sounds that you hear, and you decode writing into sort-of "mental sounds" (assuming you're not congenitally deaf). Unfortunately these two processes have complications.

  • Adult non-natives often fail to perceive and produce sounds in the new language (L2) that aren't present in their mother tongue (L1).

    Due to personal experience, I'm a supporter of the theory that this can be remedied by explicitly learning to notice the different sounds (Schmidt's Noticing Hypothesis). That means you need to understand how you yourself produce linguistic sounds, so that you can adapt your vocal gestures to those of other languages.

    To be able to do that, first of all, you have to learn the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). No, seriously, you need it. The Wikipedia articles are quite decent, and so is IPA's own handbook. Wikipedia also has recordings for all sounds—and so does this interactive table. Some beginners think of IPA as a writing system, and try to learn to "read" it as a whole. This is a mistake. Think of it as a table of possible sounds, classified on various dimensions (in the case of consonants, which are easier to introspect, there are three: place, manner, and voice). Once you understand how each dimension explains part of a gesture, the values of each symbol become a recipe of how to produce it: do this with my tongue here, turn on voice, and… voilà!

    If you're familiar with language X, look at the Wikipedia article "Phonology of X", and try to refer to the table and understand it by reproducing the sounds. (In the case of English, be sure to locate your own dialect/accent). Then try to understand the corresponding articles for the languages you're learning. You don't need to care about the rest of the table.

    As you get familiar with the IPA, try to learn the basics of articulatory phonetics and phonology. Online articles are probably good enough to help with language learning, but if you like technical books and want to dig deeper, I benefited a lot this and this and this one. If and only if you like physics, then this too.

  • It's nontrivial to deduce the sounds from the writing (witness how much trouble computer people have with speech synthesis). All writing systems assume that you already know the language. Some assume just a little, like Finnish or Czech (and are therefore foreign-friendly); and some are basically unpredictable, like English and French; most are somewhere in-between.

    The best solution to this is to make sure you get lots and lots and lots of exposure to the spoken language. If you can learn the spoken language before writing, so much the better (it's how natives learn, after all). If you're curious about how writing systems work, I'd recommend Rogers as a first stop, but I think the Cree/Blackfoot sillabaries shouldn't give you any trouble.

u/Melbourne_wanderer · 5 pointsr/melbourne

Not sure about that, but in the meantime, if you want to start learning the script, I can recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Arabic-Script-Hacking-learning-alphabet/dp/1473679699

I got it from a friend who didnt want her copy, just to give it a try, and it is brilliant. If you want you could smash it out in a weekend and end up with a good ability to sound out Arabic words, even if you don't understand them. I have used it to impress and make friends with the owners of the local middle eastern grocery :)

u/proserpinax · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Is someone wanting to get back into studying a language OK? =D If so, I'm looking to get back into studying Japanese after a bit of a break. I'm mainly interested because Japanese music is my big passion in life, and as such learning the language is pretty important for talking with fellow fans, learning lyrics, etc. I actually write a lot about it, and I have started interviewing Japanese music groups, so having a better grasp of the language would be AMAZING.

This book with this workbook would be a serious help to me.


Where to begin with songs? Here are a few current favorites of mine

And here's a Japanese pop singer trying (and failing) to learn English! So hey, keeping with the language learning theme.

u/mastiii · 2 pointsr/Hindi

I am also a Hindi learner and not a native speaker, but I can try to answer your questions.

ऋ is a vowel which can be transliterated as ri or r with a dot below it. It is used in words like कृष्णा (Krishna). You can see that the word Krishna also uses ष (sh) and ण (n). These letters are somewhat uncommon but you still see them, especially in names and Sanskrit loan words. ङ and ञ are less common than ष and ण in my opinion.

ळ is not used in Hindi. It is used in Marathi though. I think it might be a retroflex L. You don't need to know this for Hindi. ऩ ऱ य़ do not exist in Hindi as far as I know. Seems like you already know that some letters do have an added dot(?) to give it a different sound ( क़ ख़ ग़ ज़ फ़ ढ़ ). न र य are not such letters from what I understand.

ॻ ॼ ॾ ॿ - I have never seen these characters with the line beneath them. Either they are old forms or something else. I wouldn't worry about them.

My suggestion is to get some other learning resources. Read and Write Hindi Script is a useful book. I also liked Elementary Hindi and the accompanying workbook.

u/internationaltester · 1 pointr/Sat

The short answer is yes, but not the kind of vocabulary that was studied for the pre-2016 SAT.

You don't need to study vocabulary lists in order to answer specific questions, but you do need a college level vocabulary in order to comprehend the passages and questions.

Let's look at some higher level (not uncommon though) words from Test #1. If you are unsure about the following words, then you need to do some vocabulary work to increase your comprehension. The following is just a quick list from a scan of the test and the words you find difficult might be different from the ones I listed.

  • Scuttling
  • Glistening
  • Drenched
  • Urgency
  • Maternal
  • Unseemliness
  • Frequent
  • Peer
  • Recipient
  • Dead-weight
  • Intuitive
  • Notion
  • Complementary
  • Expenditures
  • Utilize
  • Ambivalent
  • Deduced
  • Axis
  • Permutation
  • Consistent
  • Vantage
  • Procession
  • Caravan
  • Pulpit
  • Mouthpiece
  • Plume
  • Bazaar
  • Sixpence
  • Convened
  • Lunar
  • Prospecting
  • Scenario
  • Interplanetary
  • Celestial
  • Sidestep
  • Desolation
  • Merit
  • Barren
  • Stewardship

    It is not absolutely necessary that you know all of these words to comprehend the test and answer the questions correctly, BUT it will take you longer if you have to work around these words. Because the the SAT is a timed test, faster is better. And so having a robust and agile vocabulary (you can adjust your mental definition to fit the context) will enable you to complete the reading section more efficiently.

    I would suggest using the tests you have completed and making lists of unfamiliar words to start and then using SAT level articles do the same. Create your own mini-dictionary and review it to beef-up your vocabulary. There is no definitive list that any company can give you (although Erica Meltzer's vocabulary book is a good start) because English has a vast vocabulary and just about any of about 50,000 words could show up in a passage.
u/l33t_sas · 4 pointsr/linguistics

I think others here have made a decent case for the value language conservation provides to linguistic theory, but the replies have been scant on the value these languages have towards their communities. I recommend you check out When Languages Die by K. David Harrison (he's also made a documentary, The Linguists which is nice too). Also check out Dying Words by the aforementioned Nick Evans (I'm meeting him in a few weeks, so excited!). I also recommend joining the Resource Network For Linguistic Diversity on Facebook as well as the open-access online journal Language Documentation and Conservation.

u/Jennynot · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Does it count if I updated my list just pre-Christmas? Hand't done it in like a year before that... and seemed a good time to do it! I'll add other things now just in case!

So I added the Sign Language teach yourself because it's one of those things I've always wanted to learn for some reason (though I have no idea who i'd practise on), and the headphones because I and to go though them pretty quickly and I love my music. I make up little stories to go with whatever song I'm listening to. I'll write them into real stories eventually. The clothes I added because I've recently lost weight and have no clothes my size anymore and I love superdry.

I took out the face creams I added because of random skincare addiction reddit threads. I can't afford them and really moisturiser is all I actually use. I'm so bad at that sort of thing. Took out some of the more obscure boardgames I'd added because we barely play the ones we have (wish I could encourage my so to play more!). Took out the health stuff (creatine) because i've just bought some from a different site. Also took off the sugar free chocolate because I found some much much nicer in an actual real life store for a surprisingly reasonable price!

Incase those don't count I also added this blender because my bf killed the one we'd had for just a week by putting it onto a hot ring of the stove... it melted and wouldn't hook back up the the base. This happened 2 months ago... I miss my cauliflower mash :(

(I came first in jiggery pokery, what about you?)

u/tesla023 · 1 pointr/BabyBumps

Good idea with the books, I wouldn’t have thought of that! I really want the A B to Jay Z book! That’s always my go-to when I buy someone a baby book and it always gets a good laugh!

u/cairo140 · 7 pointsr/linguistics

You'd probably be better off giving them the Handbook for the IPA. IPA flashcards would be cool, but the IPA is pretty straightforward, and I would fear that the IPA flashcards would become obsolete a week in. The Handbook basically includes phonologies for every language and is wonderfully useful in the future for ESL classes since you can look up the phonology of an ESL student's native tongue and get some more perspective.

u/TheBishopsBane · 3 pointsr/gifs
u/saturnfan · 2 pointsr/GradSchool

Kaplan has some good materials you should check out, including books, courses and online resources (with the online practice tests the most helpful)

However, if you want to specifically work on your vocab, check out verbal advantage if you want to compliment your vocab studying with an outside source.

Verbal Advantage at Amazon

u/FozzieBears · 1 pointr/GREhelp

Don't waste your time with that crap, unless that is effective for you. For me, whenever I read I gloss over words I don't know or can't pronounce. If you do this at all then reading won't increase your vocabulary.



For me, what worked was creating a mental picture of the definition based on the pronunciation of the word. The more personalized and outrageous the better. That last part on being personalized and crazy is key.


For example, truculent means "eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant." To me it sounds like "truck-you-lent" so I picture a guy driving a semi truck which costs like 400K who owns the truck, but works for a shipping company. He lends his truck out, but the guy doesn't give it back and so the big burly truck driver is pissed and eager to fight and argue.


I practice recalling the key phrase "truck-you-lent" and associated picture incorporating the definition. After three times I just know the definition without really being able to articulate it well. Its just in there, but it takes struggling and recalling it ~3 times over a 2 week period.


I have a database of GRE words with descriptions of pictures that I have been working on in hopes of writing a book based on the above idea someday. PM if you want me to send it to you.


Also, check out these books for ideas and even words. They tend to be simple SAT words but you need to know them as well for the GRE.

GRE Vocab Capacity: Over 900 Powerful Memory Tricks and Mnemonics to Widen your Lexicon

Vocabulary Cartoons II, SAT Word Power

Vocabulary Cartoons: Sat Word Power

Vocabulary Cartoons II: SAT Word Power

Picture These SAT Words!

Picture These SAT Words in a Flash

Vocabulary Cartoons: Word Power Made Easy

Vocabulary Cartoons: SAT Word Power

How to Build a Better Vocabulary

Verbal Advantage: 10 Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary

u/Tbbhxf · 1 pointr/Showerthoughts

Great book that covers the history and design for each letter in our alphabet, Letter Perfect by David Sacks

u/tourguideaaron · 1 pointr/hebrew

Duolingo is great for vocabulary. The biggest barrier to learning Hebrew is the Alphabet though. People are intimidated by any non Latin Alphabet. There's a great book that teaches Hebrew reading with fun memory tricks available on kindle or in paperback:
https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Read-Hebrew-6-Weeks/dp/0997867507/

u/ruckboos · 2 pointsr/languagelearning

Just looking at images of the Nepali alphabet, it appears to be the same as that used for Hindi. As you may expect though, it will be used in slightly different ways, like the latin alphabet for European languages. I'm learning Hindi and to learn the alphabet I basically just memorized it by writing out each letter and pronouncing it 5 at a time.

You could use Richard Snell's Read and Write Hindi script if you like (https://www.amazon.ca/write-Hindi-script-Rupert-Snell/dp/1444103911/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495039659) but I think you'd do fine using the various web resources available through google, like this one: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/nepali.htm

Of course, real practice comes with exposure to words after you've memorized, so I suggest getting into the actual course as soon as you can. For the first while you'll be doing lots of cross-referencing but that goes away with time and effort.

u/ladywrists · 2 pointsr/teaching

We use a program called Fundations at my school, but a program that might work better, since he can move at his own pace is Words Their Way. They have different levels of difficulty depending on what students know and are able to do. I would recommend starting with this book. It's the lowest level, and will help your brother with phonemic awareness (the building blocks of decoding words and is probably the reason your brother is having a hard time putting syllables together). Then you can move on to higher levels, like this. The program is meant to be a spelling program, but I find that if I pair it with a lot of independent reading and reading with an adult where I can point out examples of the phonics skills they've encountered, then they can learn a lot about decoding from it.

On a side note, one of the major problems that struggling readers run into at a young age is that people spend so much time focusing on their decoding that they don't think about how well the student is comprehending. Use a variety of books with your brother -stuff he can decode just fine, stuff he needs help with, and stuff he can't read at all, but that you can read aloud to him. With these last books, spend a lot of time discussing what he's reading as well. Otherwise you run the risk that he's going to continue to struggle when he gets older because he values decoding the words over understanding the content.

u/smaller_god · 0 pointsr/japanese

Heisig-ist here. I get the criticism but people always gloss over that there's an entire separate book for tackling the readings.

The isolation of these 2 elements is very intentional. It just also means that a feeling of actual pay-off is very delayed.

There are other successful ways to learn kanji of course, but Heisig's method is completely effective if fully followed through.

u/graidan · 5 pointsr/iching

I’m very familiar. Here are some good resources:

https://smile.amazon.com/TAi-Hsuan-Ching-Hidden-Classic/dp/0850303117

https://smile.amazon.com/Elemental-Changes-Commentaries-translated-Philosophy/dp/0791416283

https://smile.amazon.com/Canon-Supreme-Mystery-Yang-Hsiung/dp/0791413969

It’s not the Tai Xuan Jing, but I also recommend

https://smile.amazon.com/Maze-Game-Diana-Reed-Slattery-ebook/dp/B007UJZWC0

I also have my own work built on three forces > nine elements > 27 variants > 81 pairs > 729 triads.

u/potterarchy · 1 pointr/answers

If you're interested in that sort of thing, you might like "Letter Perfect" by David Sacks.

u/redditrutgers · 8 pointsr/linguistics

There are two routes you can go. If you are trained in linguistics, or know somebody who is, you can investigate language differences across sexualities directly, which in my opinion, is the best way to learn and become an expert on the subject. If not, there are a few written resources you can check out such as:

u/GrumpySimon · 3 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Dying Words by Nick Evans is great.

u/Jonny9744 · 1 pointr/CasualConversation

I'm reading a great book called alphabetical.
It goes through each letter of the alphabet and gives a really in depth history, entomology, phonetical history. It also fleshes out things I had never heard of like the phonetic principle and ... Ah it's just so fascinating. Recommended.

http://www.amazon.com/Alphabetical-Every-Letter-Tells-Story/dp/1848548869

u/jollybumpkin · 1 pointr/myfriendwantstoknow

vocabulary flash cards. You learn a new word, think you never heard it before. But after you learn it, if you read much, you start seeing it, as if for the first time. On the other hand, if you don't read much, maybe there isn't much point in expanding your vocabulary.

u/Jezzick · 2 pointsr/C_S_T

https://www.amazon.com/Maze-Game-Diana-Reed-Slattery/dp/1889471100

This is one of the most powerful books I've read, and is criminally underrated.

u/snapwest · 2 pointsr/BSL

So 3 days late ... only just found this sub

BSL teach yourself book & DVD is fantastic in my opinion. It really helped and explained a lot that I struggled with while taking level one last year. It's a good representation between how English is spoken and BSL is structured and what the cut out and simplify.

Most other things I've found are quite outdated but I can't remember anything from that book that aren't still relevant

u/Klampenborg · 1 pointr/explainlikeimfive

For a comprehensive look at this, check out this book by James Lipton:

http://www.amazon.com/Exaltation-Larks-The-Veneral-Game/dp/B0068THIVQ