Washoe County Library System

There are 42 million native Korean speakers, including more than 1 million in the U.S., and knowledge of Korean is increasingly in demand due to South Korea's growing economic influence and North Korea's continuing international security issues. This fun and easy guide helps people pick up basic skills in this challenging language. Complete with a CD featuring sample dialogues in MP3 format, it covers grammar, numbers, greetings and introductions,...

With the proven Pimsleur method, listeners will learn the basics of French in an enjoyable audio program that does away with time-consuming drills. Organized for rapid learning, this language program includes instruction on vocabulary, grammar, and simple conversation.

Dr. Pimsleur earned his Ph.D. in French from Columbia University and was a Professor of Romance Languages and Language Education at both Ohio State University and State University of New York at Albany. Here, Pimsleur offers listeners a ten-lesson, five hour program which consists of beginning language strategies for communication and traveling needs.

Complete course, including 40 language lessons, a conversation manual with all translated phrases from the lessons, and a dictionary/phrasebook with frequently-used words highlighted.

"Progressive instruction in all the basics of structure, syntax and grammar, emphasizing the building blocks of proper speech and conversational skill-building." --Container.