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Cargando... How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)por George Mikes
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. First Published by Andre Deutsch 1946 Why are English people so different from other Europeans? This book tries to explain the strange things that the English do and say. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. For a book published in 1946 you should expect all the obvious stereotypical examples of what foreigners expect the British to be like; The quaint customs of greeting an acquaintance then asking how they are, to which only the formal reply 'I'm fine. How are you' should be given regardless of circumstance. The English obsession with discussing the weather; and the social protocol of never contradicting anyone in polite conversation. Then there is the ultimate British crime of having taken a delicate and refined beverage of tea, and through generations of ignorance and bad taste transformed it into the colourless and tasteless gargling-water we know today as English Tea. Not to mention queuing, long awkward silences, buses and taxis, the list goes on and on. You would expect a book published eighty years ago to now appear very dated and inaccurate. I only wish to God it were... (Nicolas Bentley's line drawings are a perfect accompaniment to the text.) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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