Teach your little ones all about the seaside through the alphabet with this charming board book. Designed for young readers from 18 months, with beautiful illustrations of easily recognised nautical words.
How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
A fascinating story of writing across cultures and time While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts-Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs-are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the ......
How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
A fascinating story of writing across cultures and time While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts-Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs-are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the ......
An investigation of the connections between the parallel rise of modern Hebrew and modern media After lying dormant for two millennia as a mainly written language, Hebrew awoke from its literary slumber to become a living modern vernacular. This revitalization is unique and unprecedented in world history, and its success has been studied in ......
Romanization, Modernism, and the Timing and Spacing of Print Culture
The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt reads modernism in a global and comparative perspective, through the works of Joseph Conrad and others. The book explores the ambiguous effect of ......
Romanization, Modernism, and the Timing and Spacing of Print Culture
The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt reads modernism in a global and comparative perspective, through the works of Joseph Conrad and others. The book explores the ambiguous effect of ......
Parents and teachers can use this laminated 6-page guide with their kindergartener to hit specific learning requirements of The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. These expectations and skills are the stepping stones needed to succeed in school, college and the real world. Each guide in the series focuses on critical areas of ......
In 1859 Brigham Young sent two Mormon missionaries to live among the Hopi, ""reduce their dialect to a written language,"" and then teach it to the Hopi so that they would be able to read the Book of Mormon in their own tongue. Young also instructed the men to teach the Hopi the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic system that he was promoting in place of ......
