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The Oxford New Portuguese Dictionary
Portuguese, Books, Dictionaries
The Oxford New Portuguese Dictionary is a member of a dictionary series from Oxford that I really like and have used for other languages. The series as a whole is well-designed and lightweight (meaning easily portable through New…
Mandarin Made Easy: Lesson 1, Tones
Mandarin, Radio/TV/Video/Film
Mandarin has four tones. This is an unfamiliar concept to most native English speakers and is the type of thing one might ordinarily hope to learn in a class, with the assistance of a nice language teacher who would be…
The American Heritage Pocket Spanish Dictionary
Spanish, Books, Dictionaries
I am partial to American Heritage products generally. The content in this American Heritage Pocket Spanish Dictionary may be very good, but I have two main beefs about it that for me are dealbreakers. First, the…
Intermediate Chinese with Audio CD
Mandarin, Books, Multimedia
Intermediate Chinese with Audio CD by Yong Ho is the successor to Beginner’s Chinese with 2 Audio CDs, which I liked. This intermediate book looks good, too, but I can’t evaluate it, because I…
Arabic Television
Arabic, Radio/TV/Video/Film
Watching foreign-language television can be a useful learning tool, and cable TV often provides access to different worlds’ worth of television. On Time Warner Cable in New York City, for example, channel 507 is as of this writing the Arabic Channel,…
Rocket French
French, Multimedia
Headquartered in New Zealand, Rocket Languages offers products for multiple languages. I didn’t use Rocket French enough, or recently enough, to rate it, but I liked my brief encounter with it in April 2011 well enough to consider trying…
Larousse Pocket Spanish-English/English-Spanish Dictionary
Spanish, Books, Dictionaries
The Larousse Pocket Spanish-English/English-Spanish Dictionary is a robust pocket dictionary, not one of those super-mini ones. I didn’t use it much, but it worked well for me when I did.