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Spanish: Fast Track Learning
- The 1000 Most Used Spanish Words with 3.000 Phrase Examples
- Narrated by: Giancarlo Maranzano
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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Focus your Spanish-learning on the most frequently used words. Learn just the 1,000 words you need for everyday life.
One of the usual mistakes when learning a foreign language is that the student has no priorities. All the unknown words get the same attention.
Actually, to communicate, you only need 1,000 words in any language. These words are the most frequently used and can be defined using an algorithm that provides the ranking. In this audiobook, you'll find the list.
This audiobook will provide you with the 1,000 words you have to learn first to get around when traveling or interacting with Spanish-speaking people.
So, don’t waste your time and energy! Focus your effort on the most important words you have to learn to master Spanish!
Download your copy and start focusing your energy today!
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The Plateau Effect is a powerful law of nature that affects everyone. Learn to identify plateaus and break through any stagnancy in your life - from diet and exercise, to work, to relationships. The Plateau Effect shows how athletes, scientists, therapists, companies, and musicians around the world are learning to break through their plateau - to turn off the forces that cause people to “get used to” things - and turn on human potential and happiness in ways that seemed impossible.
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Heath
- By Oliver Nielsen on 07-22-13
By: Bob Sullivan, and others
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Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire
- By: Rafe Esquith
- Narrated by: James Yaegashi
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling author Rafe Esquith, the only teacher to receive the National Medal of Arts, has garnered the American Teacher Award and numerous other honors. Still teaching fifth graders in a small, leaky classroom in downtown Los Angeles, Esquith fosters a wholesome climate where character, humility, and diligence matter and support is unconditional. For his mostly poor and Hispanic students, Esquith models two maxims: Be nice and work hard, and There are no shortcuts. And his students thrive!
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Inspiring even if not what it claims to be
- By Thomas Keeler on 11-14-10
By: Rafe Esquith
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Strange Stones
- By: Peter Hessler
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage - a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions.
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funny, entertaining
- By Katherine on 08-02-13
By: Peter Hessler