Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
The ultimate rapid language-learning guide! For those who’ve despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick. At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school -- who does? -- rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources. In Fluent Forever Wyner reveals what he’s discovered.
After rescuing a friend's husband from an East End opium den, Dr. Watson rather improbably finds his friend Sherlock Holmes there, disguised as an old man apparently trying to extract information from the addicts in the den.
Mr. Neville St. Clair, a respectable and punctual country businessman, has disappeared. Making the matter even more mysterious is that Mrs. St. Clair is quite sure that she saw her husband at a second-floor window in a rather rough part of town near the docks. He withdrew into the window immediately, and Mrs. St. Clair is quite sure that there was something very wrong...
This book began as a series of intercollegiate lectures given at Bikbeck College, University of London, in 1963, and, although little of the original material remains unchanged, some of the book's general characteristics derive from its origin. The lecture audience consisted for the most part of interested readers rather than specialist; the book is primarily addressed to a similar audience and views and interpretations of interest to the specialist.
The #1 reason cited in exit interviews for an employee quitting is "my manager". Most managers and executives not only aren't aware of this obvious problem, but probably wouldn't know what to do about it if they were. In The Hands-Off Manager, Steve Chandler and Duane Black offer a new vision for all managers. With stories, examples, and vibrant activities for the reader to practice, this book shows any manager how to coach and mentor employees rather than hover over their shoulders and goad them into action.
The Little Princess doesn't want to go to the hospital, and she does everything she can to avoid it. But when she is finally forced to go, she finds that she really rather likes it. Why? Because they treat her like a princess there!