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The fast, informal way to learn to speak French - with integrated audio clips throughout. Listen to pronunciations and conversations. French is a beautiful language but quite difficult to learn. Whether you need to learn the language for a French class, or you travel overseas for business or leisure, this enhanced edition of French for Dummies can help. Written in an easy-to-follow format, with integrated audio clips, it gives you just what you need for basic communication in French. The enhanced edition Business, an upcoming class, travel – whatever your reason for wanting to learn a new language but don't have time to take a class, this enhanced edition of French For Dummies can get you well on your way to becoming fluent in no time!

Da la impresión de que los adultos no se acuerdan de sus exámenes, sus deberes o sus malas notas... Las historias de este libro no son tan dulces como las que cuentan los padres. Es más, algunas merecerían un cero en conducta. Por eso es mejor que alejes este libro de los mayores. Es un consejo.

Extraordinario recorrido por todos los rincones de nuestra geografía. Con gran amenidad, el abuelo narra fantásticas historias propias de las diferentes culturas que componen una mezcla de tradiciones, valores, condiciones topográficas y atmosféricas, leyendas y sitios históricos de nuestro país. Papá Sesé tenía una idea muy armar con todos sus recuerdos una geografía distinta, una geografía escrita como un cuento para que los niños quieran mucho a Colombia.

Y contra el miedo que desata el miedo que el miedo me da, lo mejor es no estar solo. Entonces y siempre. El nuevo libro de Luis María Pescetti es una reunión de poesías, diálogos, textos de humor, prosa poética. Estas páginas recorren las emociones más íntimas, el absurdo, la infancia, el juego con el lenguaje y sus sonidos. Un libro único e irrepetible, que propone una mirada poética de la modernidad y atraviesa todas las etapas de la vida.

Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people. That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting with her own small life. Anna suddenly found things moving too fast for her to understand. One day, her father was unaccountably missing. Then she herself and her brother Max were being rushed by their mother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew – home and schoolmates and well-loved toys – right out of Germany…