How I Learned English
55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life
All over the world there are people struggling to master the quirks and challenges of English. In today's America, many millions of them are Latino-and in this eloquent collection, nearly 60 of the best known contribute fascinating, revealing, often touching essays on the very personal process each went through to achieve this common end. Their successes are inspiring. Their pieces, engaging and entertaining all, express the whole range of emotions that learning any new language entails.Congressman José Serrano, for example, describes learning English from Frank Sinatra records. Cuban-American author Oscar Hijuelos picked it up as a sick litt…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4262-0097-7
- EAN: 9781426200977
- Produktnummer: 2719336
- Verlag: National Geographic Society
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D0.0 cm 437 g
- Gewicht: 437
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Tom Miller has been bringing us extraordinary stories of ordinary people for more than thirty years. His acclaimed travel books include The Panama Hat Trail, On the Border, and Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba. Another of his titles, Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink, won the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book of 2000. He has also edited two collections, Travelers' Tales Cuba, and Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader, and his articles have appeared in Smithsonian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, LIFE, Natural History, and many other periodicals.
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