The Best Books About Language Learning & Linguistics
Lindsay is back on the Fluent Show today and we're talking about the best books about languages and linguistics.
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Show Notes
Lindsay is back on the Fluent Show today and we're talking about the best books about languages and linguistics.
*NOTE: The Fluent Show is now on a podcast break until 6 May, but you can catch up with mini episodes of "Fluent in Isolation" at Patreon.com
We discussed the following books - all linked below on amazon.com and on hive.co.uk.
Popular Science
- David Crystal’s ANYTHING, out of which we discussed
- Encyclopedia of Language
- You say Potato
- Spell it out
- Becoming Fluent by Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts
- Lingo and Babel by Gaston Dorren
- Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
Academic Books
- Teaching and Researching: Motivation by Zóltan Dörnyei and Ema Ushioda
- An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching by Keith Johnson
Guide/Entertainment
- Tingo by Adam Jacot de Boinot
- Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner
- How to Speak Any Language Fluently by Alex Rawlings
- Fluent in 3 Months by Benny Lewis
- PLUG: [Oh hey, I wrote some too!](www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/boxset)
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Links:
- David Crystal - Wikipedia
- All David Crystal Books on Amazon.co.uk
- All David Crystal Books on Amazon.com
- Lindsay's Book of 2019 on Youtube
- Lindsay's Coronavirus Support page
- My Review of Becoming Fluent
- Gaston Dorren Books on Hive.co.uk
- All Gaston Dorren books on Amazon.com
- The Fluent Show: Professor Emoji 👩🏼🏫 Stops by to Explain How We Use Language Online 😍 (with Dr Monica Riordan)
- Teaching and Researching: Motivation (Applied Linguistics in Action) - Kindle edition by Dörnyei, Zoltán, Ushioda, Ema. Reference Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
- Teaching and Researching: Motivation on hive.co.uk
- An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Keith Johnson on hive.co.uk
- Amazon.com: An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching by Keith Johnson
- Bilingual Education Expert Marianna du Bosq
- Toujours Tingo on hive.co.uk
- The Meaning of Tingo on amazon.com
- Fluent Guides Box Set — Two guides I wrote to help you learn languages
- How to Speak Any Language Fluently by Alex Rawlings on Amazon.com.
- How to Speak Any Language Fluently by Alex Rawlings on hive.co.uk
- Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner
- Fluent in 3 Months by Benny Lewis on hive.co.uk
- Fluent in 3 Months by Benny Lewis on amazon.com
- terminology - What does a computational linguist actually do? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
- All Things Linguistic