{"product_id":"language-secret-book-john-stedman-9783982661025","title":"The Language Secret","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do you call someone who speaks three languages?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrilingual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you call someone who speaks two languages?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilingual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you call someone who speaks one language?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The author first heard this joke in Africa, where he frequently met people who spoke eight, nine or ten languages. Most of these people would not consider themselves remarkable in any way. Some of them could not even read. But, unwittingly, all of them had stumbled upon \u003cstrong\u003eThe Language Secret\u003c\/strong\u003e. And it is our pleasure to reveal it to you in this book. Seemingly abstract concepts such as language families, phonetics and etymology are explained in an accessible way to the non-specialist reader - and the immediate application of these ideas to the practical difficulties of learning another language are shown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e None of the information we present is new or unknown in academia. It is, however, almost entirely absent from language teaching in classrooms, and lamentably under-used in self-help language books. Some very simple, but powerful ideas and linguistic discoveries have remained a secret to non-specialists. But \u003cstrong\u003eThe Language Secret \u003c\/strong\u003eshould be available to everyone who wants to know it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis modest tome will not make you a specialist in any one language. There are plenty of self-help books and exhaustive grammars available if you want to master any particular tongue. But what we will do is show the principles that apply to learning all languages, any language, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Language Secret\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51062122971409,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51062125297937,"sku":"NIN9783982661025","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3982661021.jpg?v=1751032468","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/language-secret-book-john-stedman-9783982661025","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}