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Ann pale kreyòl - Elementary and Intermediate Haitian Creole This is a comprehensive set of teaching materials designed to provide learners with a thorough grounding in the sounds, grammar, and vocabulary of Haitian Creole. It includes 25 chapters, each containing dialogue materials, grammar sections, and extensive practice materials progressing from drill to communicative activities. Also included is a guided introduction to the official spelling system, varied listening comprehension sections, keyed exercises, and reading selections covering aspects of Haitian geography and history. The book is illustrated with many line drawings, and a 1200 word Creole-English glossary is appended. It differs from its predecessor (A Basic Course in Haitian Creole) by the use of the official (IPN) spelling, by the inclusion of drawings illustrating objects and actions, and by a more accurate and authentic portrayal of Haitian culture. Ann pale kreyòl is the most comprehensive set of teaching materials available for Haitian Creole. Designed for persons who wish to acquire a working command of the language sufficient to communicate with monolingual speakers, it is eminently suitable for both use in formal courses as well as for self-instruction. 2001 edition, 278 pages, with 12 audiocassettes or 10 CDs. Cassette Version $245 CD Version $245
Pimsleur Haitian Creole Now you can learn Haitian Creole with the famous Pimsleur "listen and learn" language method! This course will teach you to speak and understand basic Haitian Creole in 10 easy lessons. Course consists of 5 CDs. Shipping weight 3 lbs. $115 More information for Pimsleur courses...
Pimsleur Bookchip for Compact Haitian Creole Bookchips are compact digital memory cards that can hold five, ten, fifteen hours of spoken audio or more. A single Bookchip - not much larger than a postage stamp - can hold entire audiobooks that would traditionally require a half-dozen to a dozen compact discs or cassettes. Bookchips work on many desktop computers, laptops, other handheld PDA devices and mobile Smartphones with SD memory card slots. Bookchips move seamlessly from device to device, remembering your listening position each time. With Bookchips, it's easy to pick up from where you left off the day before, or skip to any chapter you like. Not only do Bookchips hold hours and hours of high-quality digital audio, they are rugged and reliable. Bookchips are completely electronic, and can be played by devices without any spinning or moving parts - which means Bookchips never skip! Bookchips are much easier to travel or exercise with than cassette or compact discs... and lighter, too. The Bookchip contains the Pimsleur Haitian Creole Compact course, with 10 lessons, normally on 5 CDs. $99 More about Pimsleur Bookchips...
iofy Audio Player The iofy Player is back and better than ever. With new enhanced features it delivers the same reliable performance of the original in a sleek new design. Easy to use, the iofy Player is designed specifically for audiobook chips, such as the Pimsleur Bookchip. This intelligent device is the only audiobook chip player on the market today that automatically bookmarks your listening position! Unlike cassettes or CDs, just one audiobook chip can hold 5, 10, 15 hours or more of reading material, and plays without spinning parts that might break or cause skipping when you're on the go. With an iofy player, you can "zip" downloaded audiobooks to chips and listen to them anywhere - while you're driving, exercising, or just relaxing. Alternatively, you can buy premade chips, or you can put your own music or other MP3 content on a chip and listen to that as well. The iofy player comes with Earphones and two AAA batteries. With a 16GB SD Memory Card (not included), it holds up to 2400 hours of spoken audio, or 3840 songs in 128-Kbps MP3 format. Supports Content on SD card, MMC-ROM, MMC Flash, Mini-SD, and Micro-SD (requires adaptor). Skip-free playback; Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz; MP3 (8 to 192 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Speex; One step MP3-CD to chip conversion; CEA 2003 compliant; MPV compliant. $49 More about the iofy Audio Player...
Talk Now! CD-ROM Course for Creole The Talk Now! series is for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, such as colors, numbers, food, shopping, and time. We have been selling this European-produced CD-ROM for a few years and find that it is highly praised by people from all over the world. Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with native speakers. Interactive and fun, it is ideal for beginners and travelers. Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes and play a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress: keep your total score and print your own awards. You can also print your own picture dictionary for handy reference. On-screen help is available at all times in over 50 languages. Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. Shipping weight 1 lb. $45 More about the Talk Now! series...
Haitian Creole Newspaper Reader Kate Howe, Lyonel Desmarattes This Reader is an introduction to Haitian language, culture and politics for a linguistically sophisticated beginner. The forty-two selections are intended to provide students who already have some knowledge of the language with practice in reading. Included is a background study of the language situation in Haiti, notes on pidgin and creole languages, a reference grammar, and a composite glossary. With two 60 min. audio cassette recordings of the articles read by a native speaker. 1990, 210 pages, hardbound. Book and 2 cassettes $105
Haitian Creole - English Dictionary Jean Targète, Raphael G. Urciolo With 10,000 entries, including many illustrative phrases and examples of usage, this book brings Creole lexicography forward. English translations are supplied for the Creole sentences used as examples. Hardback $108 Softcover $76
Haitian Creole Oxford Picture Dictionary Pictures convey meaning more clearly than words alone. The Oxford English/French Picture Dictionary presents over 2,400 words in both English and French, clearly depicted on 102 pages of full-color, contextualized illustrations. Vocabulary is introduced within 82 topics, which range from basics as food, clothing, and shelter to more specific topics such as the space program, occupations, and sports. An English index includes all the vocabulary words with a clear, easy-to-follow pronunciation guide, and a second index in French is also included. This dictionary can be used at all levels, by all ages, to teach all language skills; with the components, it provides a complete language development program. It's an invaluable resource every student and teacher needs to have. 2,400 words and color pictures, 82 topics (fruits, anatomy, geography, etc.). $27.95
Conversational Cajun French After 200 years of Cajun French being learned and passed on by word of mouth, Cajun French has been written down and the patterns are now easier to learn. This course will help you to converse with Cajuns or at least stay out of trouble in South Louisiana. Some knowledge of French is required to study this course. 3 cassettes and an 80-page booklet. Shipping weight 2 lbs. $69.95
Tales of Clovis Crawfish French songs and French-Acadian words of everyday Cajun life are interspersed throughout these stories, read in English to the delight of children and adults everywhere. 1 cassette. Shipping weight 1 lb. $18.95
Nyduka: A Descriptive Grammar George L. Huttar and Mary L. Huttar, University of Texas This volume constitutes what is perhaps the most thorough description of a Creole language to date. Following the Descriptive Grammar Series outline, it provides detailed coverage of a full range of grammatical, phonological and lexical information, written with the interests of formalists and functionalists, creolists and students of language universals and typology in mind. Expressions of linguistic judgements by both native and trained native speakers of Ndyuka combine with close study of texts to provide a solid basis for the work. More than two thousand examples of constructions and forms are considered in context and these give the careful reader a rich picture of all the structural and functional aspects of this radical creole. The authors' close acquaintance with the Ndyuka language community spans more than 25 years, and allows the intuitions of Ndyuka speakers to show through clearly. Numerous cross references and an index of forms and topics of special interest supplement the detailed table of contents, facilitating the testing of hypotheses on language universals, typology, creolization, and processes such as clefting, relativization and verb serialization. 640 pages. Hardback. Shipping weight 2 lbs. $148
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Global Writer Professional Multilingual Word Processor Global Writer Professional is a word processor that lets you express yourself in 100 languages without learning a new keyboard layout or using stickers. It is very easy to use because it looks and feels like popular Windows applications. Global Writer's built-in and customizable spell checker and thesaurus make typing faster and more convenient than ever. Best of all, everything you need is included in the box, at an amazingly low price. Shipping weight 1 lb. $129 More information for Global Writer...
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