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An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers
Communication and Culture, Fourth Edition
Robert O. Chase and Clarisa B. Medina de Chase

“What makes this book stand out is the fact that the authors are themselves medical
interpreters and the book has been tested in classrooms. . . . [It] is the best textbook of
Spanish for health care that I have seen.”
—Pilar Marcé, University of Iowa, The Modern Language Journal

THE FOURTH EDITION INCLUDES

• A full-color text with color photos and illustrations throughout
• More communicative activities and larger lexicon
• Revised and expanded cultural notes
• A video program featuring dramatic interactions between a family
and its health care providers as well as demonstrations of specific
communication tasks in health care
• An updated companion website with video program, self-
correcting activities, links to medical and language websites,
audio files, worksheets, sample syllabus and more

This widely used textbook is designed for students with little or no formal
background in Spanish. It provides the necessary language and vocabulary
Robert O. Chase is a social worker and to facilitate better communication between health care providers and the
a pretrial competency examiner for the
Connecticut Department of Mental Health
growing Spanish-speaking community in the United States.
and Addiction Services. An American- This classroom text uses readings, exercises, and interactive activities such
Dominican citizen, he teaches Spanish at
local hospitals and at Tunxis Community
as challenging and enjoyable improvisation to integrate Spanish medical
College, drawing on rich Latin-American vocabulary, grammar, and colloquial terms that nurses, doctors, dentists,
immersion experiences. and allied health professionals need most. Rich cultural notes explain
Latino customs and communication styles.
Clarisa B. Medina de Chase is a
rehabilitation therapist at Connecticut
Valley Hospital. A Dominican-American 2014 | 416 pp. | 187 color + 1 b/w illus.
citizen, she appreciates the value and Paper w/ online media 978-0-300-21297-6 | $79.00
challenges of learning to successfully
function in multiple sociocultural and Audio, video and additional materials are at yalebooks.com/medicalspanish.
linguistic contexts. Request the test bank and answer key and worksheet answer key by emailing:
language.yalepress@yale.edu.

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Charlas de sobremesa Contornos del Habla

Conversación en español Fonología y fonética del español
Teresa Carballal and Margarita Ribas Groeger Denise Cloonan Cortez de Andersen
This valuable book enables third-year students This book is designed to introduce students of diverse
of Spanish to engage in lively and meaningful backgrounds and different levels of language ability to
conversations by providing a range of diverse and Spanish phonetics and phonology. Written completely
thought-provoking texts and a wide assortment of pre- in Spanish, it provides clear and engaging explanations
and post-reading activities, specific recommendations of important linguistic concepts, from the more basic to
for improvised conversations and debates, and the more challenging.
innovative online resources.
2009 | 256 pp. | 32 b/w illus.
2015 | 488 pp. | 42 color illus. Paper | 978-0-300-14130-6 | $88.00
Paper | 978-0-300-19162-2 | $90.00

Sonidos en Contexto
Fundamentos Teóricos y Una introducción a la fonética del español con
Prácticos de Historia de la especial referencia a la vida real
Lengua Española Terrell Morgan

Eva Núñez Méndez This book is a comprehensive, theory-independent

description of Spanish phonetics and phonology
This is a comprehensive language text about the for intermediate to advanced students. It provides
evolution of Spanish, from its Latin roots to modern articulatory descriptions of native pronunciations as well
Spanish, that is intended for advanced undergraduate as practical advice on producing native-like sounds, with
and graduate students. It provides an overview of the a logical progression of exercises leading to that end.
birth, formation, and development of the Spanish
2010 | 448 pp. | 325 color + 24 b/w illus.
language in a clear and systematic way and includes
exercises and illustrative texts. Paper w/ online media | 978-0-300-21443-7 | $105.00

2012 | 336 pp. | 25 b/w illus.

Paper | 978-0-300-17098-6 | $65.00

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SPANISH

Épocas y avances Temas del comercio y

Lengua en su contexto cultural la economía en la
Scott Gravina, Isabel Jaén-Portillo, Claudia Mendez, and
Regina Schroeder
narrativa hispana
Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez and Germán Torres
Workbook authors: Ramón Funcia, Juliana Ramos,
Ten essays by different authors about economic and
Lissette Reymundi, and Julien Simon commercial issues as portrayed in Hispanic narrative
Intended for intermediate- to advanced- level students, this (fiction, essays, music, and film) provide a window into
book uses a unique communicative-humanistic approach to Hispanic culture for students of Hispanic literature and
second language acquisition. Through a series of original business in Spanish-speaking markets.
readings and related activities Épocas y avances enhances 2007 | 288 pp. |
linguistic proficiency while emphasizing important aspects Paper | 978-0-300-10955-9 | $52.00
of the history, literature, art, society, geography, language,
and culture of Spain and Latin America.
Student Text: 2015 | 448 pp. | 176 color illus. ¡A Su Salud!
Paper w/ online media | 978-0-300-21795-7 | $96.00
Annotated Instructor’s Edition: 978-0-300-10838-5
Spanish for Health Professionals,
Workbook w/ CDs: 2007 | 304 pp. Classroom Edition
Paper | 978-0-300-10837-8 | $44.00 Christine E. Cotton, Elizabeth Ely Tolman, and Julia Cardona
Quia Online Workbook: 978-0-300-13720-0 | $44.00 Mack; Revised by Elizabeth Bruno
Go to yalebooks.com/quia for more information.
Course resources available at yalebooks.com/epocas. This book is an intermediate-level Spanish language
program designed for students and practicing health
care professionals. Learners work with vocabulary and
Seamos Pragmáticos grammar within the context of a telenovela called La
comunidad, which features authentic Spanish spoken by
Introducción a la pragmática española native speakers in a variety of accents.
Derrin Pinto and Carlos de Pablos-Ortega 2009 | 456 pp. | 109 b/w illus.
Paper w/ online media | ISBN 9780-0-300-21445-1 | $65.00
This book, written specifically for English-speaking Course resources available at yalebooks.com/saludclassroom
students of Spanish, offers a practical introduction to
Online Edition | 978-0-300-12249-7 | $59.00
Spanish pragmatics for advanced undergraduate and
Available at asusaludonline.net.
graduate courses.
2014 | 280 pp. | 23 b/w illus.
Paper | 978-0-300-19109-7 | $65.00
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 SPANISH

A New Anthology of Early Transición

Modern Spanish Theater Hacia un español avanzado a través de
Play and Playtext la historia de España
Josebe Bilbao-Henry
Bárbara Mujica
This is an intermediate to advanced Spanish language
This anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age
textbook which focuses on the transition to democracy
brings together the work of canonical writers, female
in Spain after Franco’s regime. Each chapter
writers who are rapidly achieving canonical status, and
incorporates an episode of Cuéntame cómo pasó, a
lesser-known writers who have recently gained critical
Spanish TV series, which is included on DVD.  This
attention. It contains the full text of fifteen plays; an
book fits the needs of students who are interested
introduction to each play with information about the
in Spanish as well as political science, international
author, the work, performance issues, and current
relations, or history.
criticism; and glosses with definitions of difficult words
and concepts. The extensive bibliography provides 2010 | 352 pp. | 19 b/w illus.
opportunities for further research. Paper w/ DVD | 978-0-300-14217-4 | $80.00 
2015 | 712 pp. | 20 b/w illus.
Cloth | 978-0-300-10956-6 | $95.00
Writing Toward Hope
Español en Vivo Human Rights Literature of Latin America
Conversations with Native Speakers Edited by Marjorie Agosin

Pilar Piñar Broadly based on the theme of human rights in Latin

America, Writing Toward Hope is an anthology of
This text and DVD set contains 47 segments filmed on contemporary literature—fiction, essays, plays, poems—
location in Spain, Central America, and Latin America. by some of the most prominent and well-known Latin
Unrehearsed interviews deal with aspects of life and American writers of the 20th century.  Each chapter is
culture including housing, family, the immigrant devoted to a particular theme.
experience, cultural traditions, and politics.
2006 | 672 pp. | 16 color illus. in 8 pp. insert
2004 | 176 pp. | 45 b/w illus. | Paper Paper | 978-0-300-10942-9 | $45.00 
Text w/ DVD 978-0-300-11538-3 | $39.95
Text only 978-0-300-10444-8 | $25.00

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SPANISH FRENCH

Visiones Voces hispanas siglo XXI

Perspectivas literarias de la realidad social Entrevistas con autores en DVD
hispana Elvira Sánchez-Blake and Maria Nowakowska Stycos
Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez and Germán Torres An engaging collection of texts offers students of
This unique anthology of Spanish literature employs Spanish the opportunity to read works by thirteen
literary texts to explore social, political, and economic contemporary Hispanic writers and then view those
issues that illuminate Hispanic cultures in Spain and authors on DVD as they talk about their life and work.
Latin America. Encompassing such topics as living The authors come from different regions in Latin
conditions in the city and the problems women face, America and Spain, and one is a Latino from the United
the book offers intermediate and advanced students of States. A variety of genres are represented in the book
Spanish an authentic view of social and cultural realities (narrative texts, plays, poems, and a chapter on oral
in Spanish-speaking countries. narration), as well as a range of styles and themes.
In addition to information on each author, the book
2002 | 312 pp. | 10 b/w illus. includes useful activities, questions, and ideas for
Paper | 978-0-300-09381-0 | $40.00 discussion or writing assignments.
2004 | 240 pp. | 24 b/w illus.

Women Writers of Early Paper w/ DVD | 978-0-300-10462-2 | $58.00

Modern Spain
Sophia’s Daughters La France et la Francophonie
Bárbara Mujica
Part of the Conversations with Native
Finally, a collection of Spanish women writers of the Speakers Series
Golden Age which includes Oliva Sabuco de Nantes,
Maria de Zayas, Ana Caro, Lenor de la Cueva, and many Mary Anne O’Neil
others. Each text is accompanied by a biographical In this engaging text with DVD, students, teachers, farm
sketch that provides critical information for setting the workers, artisans, police, engineers, airline employees,
context of the period. Notes in English clarify obscure and other people discuss many topics, including French
words and complex structures. family life, work, sports, politics, education, and
2003 | 448 pp. | 20 b/w illus. technological achievements.
Paper | 978-0-300-09257-8 | $50.00 2004 | 192 pp.
Paper w/ online media | 978-0-300-22167-1 | $39.95

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French in Action
The Capretz Method
A Beginning Course in Language
and Culture, 3rd Edition
Pierre J. Capretz and Barry Lydgate,
with Béatrice Abetti and Marie-Odile Germain

Since it was first published, French in Action: A Beginning Course

in Language and Culture—the Capretz Method has been widely
recognized in the field as a model for video-based foreign-language Textbook, Third Edition, Part 1 (2012)
instructional materials. $70.00 | Cloth | 978-0-300-17610-0
The third edition has been revised by Pierre Capretz and Barry Workbook, Third Edition, Part 1 (2013)
Lydgate and includes new, contemporary illustrations throughout $46.00 | Paper | 978-0-300-17612-4
and more relevant information for today’s students in the Documents
Textbook, Third Edition, Part 2 (2015)
sections of each lesson. A completely new feature is a journal by
$70.00 | Cloth | 978-0-300-17611-7  
the popular character Marie-Laure, who observes and humorously
comments on the political, cultural, and technological changes in the Workbook, Third Edition, Part 2 (2016)
world between 1985 and today. The new edition also incorporates $46.00 | Paper | 978-0-300-17613-1
more content about the entire Francophone world. Study Guide, Part 1 (1994)
In use by hundreds of colleges, universities, and high schools, French $35.00 | Paper | 978-0-300-05827-7 
in Action remains a powerful educational resource, and the third Study Guide, Part 2 (1994)
edition updates the course for a new generation of learners. $35.00 | Paper | 978-0-300-05828-4
Instructor’s Guide is available as a downloadable PDF at yalebooks.com/FIA.
Test Bank (1992)
French in Action Video Series is available from Annenberg Learner. Call $70.00 | Paper | 978-0-300-05335-7   
1-800-LEARNER or visit www.learner.org for information and to order.
Test Bank Teacher’s Edition (1992)
Audio files accompanying Textbook 2, 3rd edition are available at $35.00 | Paper | 978-0-300-05336-4
yupnet.org/languages/french-in-action.

Visit yalebooks.com/FIA for a sample, to request access to an e-exam copy,

or to request exam copies.

“The closest thing to a total immersion in language and culture short of a trip to France.
. . . Capretz and his colleagues have set a new standard for foreign language teaching
materials.”
—Roger Neff, Modern Language Journal

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Teaching French Échos

Grammar in Context Cultural Discussions for Students of French
Theory and Practice Kimberlee Campbell
Stacey L. Katz and Carl S. Blyth Add a much needed cultural component to your
elmentary French class. Échos introduces students to the
Intended to help teachers and teacher trainers develop an Francophone world using four-color images of fine art,
understanding of French discourse that is grounded in anthropology, sociology, and history. It can be used with
recent theoretical and sociolinguistic research, this book any elementary language text.
is devoted to informing teachers-in-training, as well as
experienced teachers, about cutting-edge methods for 2003 | 160 pp. | 10 color illus.
teaching grammar. It also describes the grammatical Paper | 978-0-300-09803-7 | $28.00
features of the French language in its social context.
2007 | 280 pp. | 8 b/w illus.
Paper | 978-0-300-10951-1 | $48.00  Tu sais quoi?!
Cours de conversation en français
Analyse linguistique de la Annabelle Dolidon and Norma López-Burton
Tu sais quoi?! is a main text for conversational French
langue française courses, and it could also be used as a supplement to
Theresa A. Antes a second- or third-year French grammar review text.
It includes current idiomatic expressions and slang,
This book provides a full linguistic analysis of the which are not found in most textbooks. It is primarily
French language, in French, at a level appropriate for intended to prepare students to function linguistically
non-native speakers and for readers without prior and culturally in French-speaking countries where they
knowledge of linguistics. With exercises and self-check will study abroad, visit, or work.
questions throughout the text, this book is appropriate
2012 | 480 pp. | 91 color + 93 b/w illus.
and accessible to independent learners and classroom
students. Paper w/ DVD | 978-0-300-16624-8 | $85.00

2006 | 256 pp. | 14 b/w illus. Course resources are available at yalebooks.com/dolidon.
Paper | 978-0-300-10944-3 | $45.00 

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 FRENCH

Victor Hugo on Things Héritages francophones

That Matter Enquêtes culturelles
A Reader Jean Claude Redonnet, Roland St. Onge, Susan St. Onge,
and Julianna Nielsen
Edited by Marva A. Barnett
An innovative program of cultural readings designed for
This anthology introduces readers to Victor Hugo, college French classes at the upper-intermediate level
considered by many to be France’s best, most beloved and beyond, Héritages francophones is an introduction
poet. Unlike other Hugo anthologies, Victor Hugo on to several living Francophone cultures in the United
Things That Matter offers key Hugo texts in the original States. Its emphasis on the diversity of interrelated
French, as well as providing supplemental notes and Francophone issues shows students that French is indeed
overviews in English. an international language, with relevance to their own
2009 | 528 pp. | 26 b/w illus. world.
Paper | 978-0-300-12245-9 | $62.00 2009 | 336 pp. | 70 illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-12545-0   $68.00

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À la rencontre du
cinéma français
Analyse, genre, histoire
Variations stylistiques
R.-J. Berg
Cours de grammaire avancée
Diane M. Dansereau
À la rencontre du cinéma français is intended to serve
as the core textbook in a wide variety of upper-level This new advanced-level textbook teaches the wide
undergraduate and graduate French cinema courses. In range of linguistic variations employed by native
contrast to content-, theme-, or issue-based approaches speakers of French and illustrates them through films,
to film, Professor Berg stresses “the cinematically interviews, and other authentic French texts, offering an
specific, the warp and fabric of the film itself, the stuff of engaging alternative to traditional French grammars.
which it is made.” Sufficient proficiency in French is the 2016 | 512 pp.
sole prerequisite.
Cloth | 978-0-300-19846-1 | $75.00
2010 | 336 pp. | 26 b/w illus.
Paper | 978-0-300-15871-7 | $92.00

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The Yale Anthology of Processing French

Twentieth-Century French A Psycholinguistic Perspective
Poetry Peter Golato

Edited by Mary Ann Caws Processing French presents a groundbreaking empirical

study of the processing of morphologically simple and
This eagerly anticipated volume is the first complex French words. Peter Golato’s research offers an
comprehensive bilingual representation of French insightful account of the lexical storage and retrieval of
poetic achievement in the twentieth century. Mary Ann isolated words and words within sentences.
Caws has selected the work of more than 100 poets, 2005 | 224 pp. | Paper
an international roundup that includes numerous 978-0-300-10835-4 | $40.00
Francophone poets and many more female poets
than have appeared in previous anthologies. English
translations accompany each poem. Les femmes et la tradition littéraire
2008 | 704 pp. | Paper Anthologie du Moyen Âge à nos jours
978-0-300-14318-8 | $35.00 Vicki Mistacco
Les femmes et la tradition littéraire, a two-part anthology,
Identité, Modernité, Texte offers a sweeping historical overview of women’s
Matthew W. Morris, Carol Herron, and literature in France from the twelfth century to the
Colette-Rebecca Estin present. Generously illustrated and richly annotated, it
presents writers such as Hélisenne de Crenne, Gabrielle
Designed for use in one or two-semester courses as a de Villeneuve, Louise Ackermann and Renée Vivien along
main or supplementary text for any modern French
with more familiar figures including Labé, Lafayette,
course above the elementary level, this text provides
literature from de Beauvoir to Sartre. It exposes students Sand, Beauvoir, Colette and Duras. In addition to novels,
to 20th-century Francophone literature with emphasis short stories and poetry, it features fairy tales, sentimental
on mastery of reading skills. and philosophical letters, feminist political and literary
manifestos and some medieval and Renaissance selections
2003 | 432 pp. | 48 b/w illus.
appearing for the first time in modern French.
Paper | 978-0-300-09804-4 | $55.00
Première partie: XIIe-XVIIIe siècles
Instructor’s Manual and additional materials are available at yale- 2005 | 608 pp. | 34 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-10844-6 | $55.00
books.com/identite. Seconde partie: XIXe-XXIe siècles
2006 | 416 pp. | 25 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-10845-3 | $40.00

Visit either book’s webpage at yalebooks.com to download a 109 page

supplement (PDF file) containing additional readings and questions. 9
 FRENCH

The French Correction Three French Comedies

Grammatical Problems for Review and Turcaret, The Triumph of Love, and
Reference Eating Crow
Norman Susskind Translated by James Magruder
A uniquely helpful and entertaining book for anyone These witty translations of three classic comedies of
who knows beginner’s French and would like to French theater capture the humor and imagination of
advance to a more confident and correct handling of the original eighteenth and nineteenth-century texts
the language. Using many examples and giving his while giving them a contemporary feel. The plays are
basic instructions and comments in English, Susskind accompanied by a lively introduction from the translator,
provides clear and detailed explanations of perennial who sets each play within the context of its author’s
problems as well as advice about mastering them. oeuvre and the theatrical culture of its time.
1984 | 104 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-03158-4 | $20.00 1996 | 192 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-06276-2 | $25.00

Écritures de femmes Textures Coming 2018

Nouvelles cartographies Pour approfondir la communication orale

Edited by Mary Ann Caws, Mary Jean Green, Marianne et écrite
Hirsch, and Ronnie Scharfman Elizabeth Berglund Hall, Anne Theobald, Mark Andrew Hall,
This groundbreaking anthology of contemporary and James Pfrehm
writing by women throughout the French-speaking This innovative French-language textbook for
world is filled with literary treasures. Selected poems,
intermediate-level students, integrates the four
short stories, essays, memoirs, and novels—some
complete and others excerpted—explore issues language skills—listening, reading, writing, and
of universal interest from women’s perspectives: speaking—to provide students with the interpretive
relationships, violence, and the influences of race, tools necessary for literary and cultural studies.
language, nationality, and sexuality on identity. Language is presented dynamically, through a variety
of diverse media including short stories, poems, songs,
1996 | 424 pp. | 30 b/w illus.
images, essays, and podcasts.
Paper | 978-0-300-06412-4 | $48.00
2018 | 352 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-20032-4 | $65.00

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PORTUGUESE ITALIAN

Bom Dia, Brasil Modern Portuguese

Português Básico para Estrangeiros: A Reference Grammar
3rd edition Mário A. Perini
Rejane de Oliveira Slade This is the first comprehensive modern Portuguese
Revised by Marta Almeida and Elizabeth Jackson grammar written for the English-speaking reader.
The book covers in detail all the patterns of modern
This book is a completely revised and updated edition
Portuguese as spoken and written in Brazil, focusing
of the popular beginning Portuguese text Português
on those points which are especially challenging for
Básico para Estrangeiros. It aims to teach the Portuguese
students whose first language is English. A wealth of
language in a fast, interesting, and efficient way.
examples and an extensive index make this grammar
The method employed engages students’ interest by
indispensable for every serious student of Portuguese.
exploring personal, social, professional, and cultural
topics, while providing them with the basic concepts 2002 | 648 pp. | Cloth | 978-0-300-09155-7 | $76.00 
needed to communicate effectively in Portuguese.
2011 | 368 pp. | 421 b/w illus.
Paper | 978-0-300-11631-1 | $70.00
Cours resources are available at yalebooks.com. Voci dal Sud
A Journey to Southern Italy with Carlo Levi
and His Christ Stopped at Eboli
Talking Brazilian Daniela Bartalesi-Graf
A Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation This textbook for intermediate to advanced level Italian
Workbook courses employs an interdisciplinary approach to
Mário A. Perini explore the culture of the southern Italian region from
1935 to the present. Historical and cultural information
This workbook and audio program is designed for that pertain to the novel and images of Carlo Levi’s
listening and speaking Brazillian Portuguese. It can be paintings are interwoven to encourage students to
used in a classroom setting or as a self-study manual connect literature, art, and film in ways that are designed
to improve pronunciation and listening skills. All the to sharpen their critical thinking skills, as well as their
dialogues are recorded by native speakers of Portuguese. language skills.
2003 | 160 pp. | 34 b/w illus. 2010 | 448 pp. | 12 color in 8 pp. insert + 31 b/w photos, 14 maps &
Paper | 978-0-300-10021-1 | $64.00 charts
Paper | 978-0-300-13744-6 | $62.00
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Set the Stage! Mercurio

Teaching Italian through Theater An Intermediate to Advanced Reader in Italian
Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Colleen Ryan-Scheutz Language and Culture
Set the Stage! is a collection of essays on teaching Italian Andrea Fedi and Paolo Fasoli
language, literature, and culture through theater.  From This engaging book, an intermediate-level Italian
theoretical background to course models, this book text, offers an up-to-date and varied portrait of Italy’s
provides all the resources that teachers and students language, culture, and society by presenting lively
need to incorporate the rich and abundant Italian theater excerpts from its literature, news reports, comic books,
tradition into the curriculum.  film reviews, music lyrics, sociological surveys, and more.
2008 | 432 pp. | 16 b/w photos 2004 | 416 pp. | 147 b/w illus. + 10 maps
Paper | 978-0-300-10985-6 | $59.00 Paper | 978-0-300-10400-4 | $71.00

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Beginning Italian
Daniela Melis Trame
This complete beginning Italian language course includes A Contemporary Italian Reader
textbook, workbook with audio, instructor’s edition, Edited by Cristina Abbona-Sneider, Antonello Borra,
and supplementary online materials. Focusing on
and Cristina Pausini
communication skills, the program encourages development
of linguistic ability in a natural and gradual way. Interactive This text brings together short stories, poems, interviews,
lessons address contemporary cultural topics and take into excerpts from movie scripts and novels, and other works
account learners’ different styles and goals. by 33 renowned Italian authors. By presenting a rich array
Student Text: 2006 | 432 pp. | 154 color illus. + 50 b/w of materials and many points of view, Trame highlights
the cultural complexity of contemporary Italy. It is ideally
Cloth | 978-0-300-10842-2 | $101.00
suited to high-intermediate and advanced language and
Annotated Instructor’s Edition: 978-0-300-11132-3
culture courses, but is also adaptable to different needs
Workbook w/ Audio CDs: and class levels. 
2006 | 144 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-10843-9 | $53.00
Quia Online Workbook: 978-0-300-12310-4 | $48.00 2009 | 272 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-12495-8 | $47.00

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ITALIAN ARABIC

L’italiano con l’opera Italian Through Film:

Lingua, cultura e conversazione The Classics
Daniela Noe and Frances A. Boyd Antonello Borra and Cristina Pausini
This exceptional book introduces six operas, including This is a flexible text for teachers who strive towards
La Bohème, Otello, and La traviata, to intermediate content-based instruction and believe that learning a
students of Italian while engaging them in a rich variety language should be meaningful and enjoyable. It is based
of speaking, reading, and writing activities. As students around fifteen classic Italian films which are frequently
learn about the characters, plots, settings, and themes found in the libraries of many schools and universities,
of great operas, they also improve their vocabulary, and which can otherwise easily be rented from any
accuracy, and fluency in Italian. video store. It is an adaptable ancillary tool geared
2002 | 358 pp. | 75 b/w illus. towards both high school and college instruction as well
Paper | 978-0-300-09154-0  | $58.00 
as towards adult education. It is comprised of fifteen
chapters, one for each of the fifteen selected movies.
2006 | 240 pp. | 17 b/w illus.
Paper | 978-0-300-10952-8 | $34.00
Italian Through Film
A Text for Italian Courses
Antonello Borra and Cristina Pausini Focus on
Cinema Paradiso, La vita e bella, and Mediterraneo
are just three of the ten contemporary Italian films
Contemporary Arabic
included in this intermediate level work text. The book Shukri B. Abed
includes many exercises and a flexible chapter format so
This text and online media features native speakers
instructors can use the text in any order.
representing all areas of the cultural spectrum speaking
2003 | 142 pp. | 10 b/w illus. candidly about the challenges Arabs face, as well as what
Paper | 978-0-300-10020-4 | $34.00 they think of those challenges and the language they use
to express what they think.
2006 | 304 pp. | 21 b&w halftones
Paper | 978-0-300-22404-7 | $49.00
Course resources available at yalebooks.com/focusonarabic.

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 ARABIC

Ahlan wa Sahlan
Second Edition
Mahdi Alosh, revised with Allen Clark

“This work presents an innovative approach to

the teaching of Arabic.”
—Dr. Hussein Elkhafaifi, University of Washington 

These widely used textbooks will teach students to read, speak, and write Modern Standard Arabic, while
presenting an engaging story that involves Adnan, a Syrian student studying in the United States, and Michael,
an American student studying in Cairo. In diaries, letters, and postcards, the two students describe their
thoughts and activities, revealing how a non-American views American culture and how the Arabic culture
is experienced by an American student. In the Intermediate level, the narrative follows two young characters
whose personal journals provide not only reading passages for students but glimpses into various Arab cultures
as the characters travel to Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
Online video, filmed in Syria; expanded communicative activities; an updated audio program; and material
designed according to proficiency principles will enable students to communicate effectively as they build
confidence and skills in the classroom.

Mahdi Alosh is a professor of Arabic and applied linguistics.

Allen Clark is an assistant professor of Arabic and director of the Intensive Arabic Program at the
University of Mississippi.

Beginner: 2009 | 896 pp. | 396 color + 199 b/w illus. | Hardcover, Second Edition w/ online media | 978-0-300-21989-0 | $78.00
Intermediate: 2013 | 704 pp. | 274 color + 18 b/w illus. | Cloth, Second Edition | 978-0-300-17877-7 | $85.00
Letters and Sounds Workbook: 2014 | 192 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-21446-8 | $40.00

E-mail language.yalepress@yale.edu for instructor’s materials.

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ARABIC

An Introduction to Arabic for Life

Spoken Standard Arabic A Textbook for Beginning Arabic
A Conversational Course with Bassam K. Frangieh
Online Media, Parts 1 and 2 This book takes an intensive, comprehensive approach
Shukri B. Abed with Arwa Sawan to beginning Arabic instruction and is specifically
tailored to the needs of talented and dedicated students.
These multimedia packages can be used to improve It offers a balanced methodology that focuses on
the conversational skills of second- to third-semester both grammar and proficiency. Arabic for Life offers
beginning Arabic students. They help students as they a dynamic and multidimensional view of the Arab
begin to express themselves in the Arabic, guiding them world that incorporates language with Arabic culture
through language functions such as introductions, and intellectual thought. The book includes a DVD
describing people and places, and discussing typical daily containing listening and speaking exercises for students.
activities.
2011 | 528 pp. | 121 color illus.
Part 1: 2016 | 384 pp. | 42 b/w illus. | Paper Paper w/ DVD | 978-0-300-14131-3 | $85.00
978-0-300-22265-4 | $47.00 Paper w/ online media | ISBN 13: 978-0-300-23383-4 | $85.00
Part 2: 2013 | 536 pp. | 43 b/w illus. | Paper w/ DVD E-mail language.yalepress@yale.edu to request the answer key.
978-0-300-15904-2 | $40.00

Shou fi ma fi?
Arabic Second Language Intermediate Levantine Arabic
Acquisition of Morphosyntax Rajaa Chouairi
Mohammad T. Alhawary
Shou fi ma fi? will enable American students to
This book presents a data-driven and systematic analysis communicate orally in Levantine Arabic, the variety of
of Arabic language acquisition. By integrating previously Arabic spoken in Syria, Lebanon, the Holy Land, and
published findings with new research, the author has western Jordan. The textbook contains nineteen lessons
created a unified and streamlined resource for teachers, on a variety of topics and situations that the American
teachers-in-training, linguists, Arabic textbook authors, student is likely to encounter, and all were carefully
and second-language acquisition experts. selected to reflect the language and culture of Syria and
Lebanon in particular.
2009 | 240 pp. | 7 b/w illus.
Paper | 978-0-300-14129-0 | $52.00 2010 | 240 pp. | 50 b/w illus.
Paper | 978-0-300-15391-0 | $58.00
Course resources available at yalebooks.com/shoufimafi.

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 ARABIC

A Grammar of Classical Arabic Elementary Arabic

Third Revised Edition An Integrated Approach
Wolfdietrich Fischer Munther A. Younes, illustrated by Micah Garen
Translated from the German by Jonathan Rodgers This student workbook accompanies the illustrated
This concise and well-organized grammar of classical text-book for first-year Arabic. Both volumes integrate
Arabic, here translated from its original German into written, formal Arabic to the informal spoken dialects,
English for the first time, provides beginning and aiming to reflect the use of the language by native
advanced students of Arabic with a highly useful and speakers.
up-to-date reference tool. 1995 | 416 pp. | 103 b/w illus.
2001 | 352 pp. | Cloth | 978-0-300-08437-5 | $66.00 Cloth | 978-0-300-06085-0 | $45.00

Conversations in Levantine Arabic for

Modern Standard Arabic Non-Natives
Belkacem Baccouche and Sanaa Azmi A Proficiency-Oriented Approach
This textbook is directed at students who have acquired Lutfi Hussein
basic skills in Modern Standard Arabic and wish to
expand their vocabulary and improve their speaking This textbook is for beginning students of Arabic who
ability.  The book takes the student step by step through are seeking to develop communicative oral skills in
a series of specific social situations, teaching the proper Levantine Arabic. It is the first textbook for colloquial
expressions and responses to be used.  It also contains Arabic developed according to the principles of the
lively conversation and narrative passages, numerous proficiency movement in foreign language teaching,
drills and exercises, glossaries in Arabic-English and emphasizing meaningful drills, appropriate activities,
English-Arabic, and tables of grammatical rules. and a balance between linguistic accuracy and active use
of the language.
1984 | 423 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-03274-1 | $42.00
1993 | 128 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-05634-1 | $30.00
MP3 Audio CD | 978-0-300-13893-1 | $55.00
Visit yalebooks.com for the teacher’s manual (PDF file).

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ARABIC GERMAN

Anthology of Arabic Literature, Schreiben lernen

Culture, and Thought from Pre- A Writing Guide for Learners of German
Islamic Times to the Present Pennylyn Dykstra-Pruim and Jennifer Redmann
This text offers a unique approach to assisting German
Bassam K. Frangieh learners at various levels of proficiency in developing
This book—the first comprehensive reader of Arabic their writing skills in eight different genres. The guide
literature from pre-Islamic times to the present—is includes information and activities for structuring
an essential work for advanced students of the Arabic sentences, paragraphs, and entire texts; building
language. Presenting seventy works by seventy authors, vocabulary; and raising awareness of cultural issues
it not only introduces students to the entire sweep of related to writing for specific audiences and purposes.
Arabic intellectual, political, and cultural thought but By providing writing activities targeted at beginning,
also gives examples of how this thought is expressed, intermediate, and advanced learners, the guide will offer
offering important insight into the Arab mind. instructors a concrete means of unifying their German
curricula across individual levels and courses.
2004 | 588 pp. | Cloth | 978-0-300-22887-8 | $78.00
Online resources available at yalebooks.com/anthologyofarabic. 2011 | 224 pp. | 68 b/w illus. | Paper |
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16603-3 | $35.00
For instructor materials, visit yalebooks.com/schreibenlernen.

Jenseits der Stille

A German Reader
Caroline Link
Eine Liebe aus nichts
Edited by Marion Gehlker and Birte Christ A German Reader
Caroline Link’s Jenseits der Stille is the story of Lara, Barbara Honigmann and Birte Christ
a girl with two deaf parents who is given a clarinet by Barbara Honigmann’s Eine Liebe aus nichts tells the
her favorite aunt. As she hones her natural talent and story of a young expatriate’s journey back to Weimar to
becomes a skillful musician, Lara feels more distant from attend her father’s funeral. This reader is designed for
her parents. By adapting this novel for use in the second intermediate and advanced German classes. In addition
and third year German classroom, the editors introduce to English glosses of challenging words, annotations
students to contemporary texts of moderate difficulty are presented alongside the original German text and
and allow them to discuss these texts within their provide information about cultural and literary contexts.
historical and cultural contexts.
2008 | 256 pp. | 13 b/w illus.
2011 | 416 pp. | 11 b/w illus. Paper | 978-0-300-12321-0 | $39.00
Paper | 978-0-300-12322-7 | $48.00

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 GERMAN

Kunterbunt und kurz geschrieben German Through Film

An Interactive German Reader Adriana Borra, Ruth Mader-Koltay, and Albert Ludwigs
James Pfrehm German Through Film is designed to be a flexible
tool for teachers who strive towards content-based
This intermediate-level German reader can be used instruction and believe that learning a language should
as either the main text in a conversation course or a be meaningful and enjoyable. It is based on eight
supplementary text in an intermediate grammar review contemporary German films, all of which are distributed
course. James Pfrehm’s innovative approach includes in the U.S. Thanks to a wide variety of exercises, ranging
text and audio podcasts of German short stories that from the most elementary to the most sophisticated, it
are distinctly different from canonical texts studied in is suitable for beginning, intermediate, and advanced
upper-level courses. Some of the features of the book learners. Each film includes pre-viewing, viewing,
include topical, engaging, and often humorous modern and post-viewing activities, which foster vocabulary
short stories; a grammar activity in each chapter; and enhancement, cultural awareness, oral discussion, and
video podcasts of short stories created by the author. essay writing.
2012 | 272 pp. | 17 b/w illus. 2006 | 176 pp. | 8 b/w illus.
Paper | 978-0-300-16602-6 | $33.00 Paper | 978-0-300-10950-4  | $35.00 
Course resources are available at yalebooks.com. Course resources are available at yalebooks.com/germanthroughfilm.

German Phonetics and Deutschland im Zeitalter der

Phonology Globalisierung
Theory and Practice Ein Textbuch für fortgeschrittene
Mary Grantham O’Brien and Sarah M. B. Fagan Deutschlernende
This essential course book on German phonetics and Gabriele Eichmanns Maier
phonology focuses on practice as well as theory, offering
useful exercises in the perception and production of This unique textbook, intended for third- and fourth-
individual sounds, word stress, sentence stress, and year undergraduate German language learners, offers
intonation, all designed to help students of German produce a cross-disciplinary look at the changing identity of
more accurate and comprehensible German speech. Germany in the twenty-first century and the impact of
2016 | 416 pp. | 58 b/w illus.
globalization on contemporary German life and culture.
Paper | 978-0-300-19650-4 | $65.00 2015 | 432 pp. | 37 b/w illus.
Course resources available at yalebooks.com/germanphonetics. Paper | 978-0-300-19161-5 | $55.00

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GERMAN LATIN

Deutsche Legends of Early Rome

Wiederholungsgrammatik Authentic Latin Prose for the
A Morpho-Syntactic Review of German Beginning Student
Frank E. Donahue Bryan Beyer

This book provides a comprehensive review of In this text for upper-beginner and intermediate
grammatical structures and usage for intermediate to students, Brian Beyer collects authentic Latin prose from
advanced students of German. Those who have had Book 1 of Eutropius’ Breviarium ab urbe condita, which
some exposure to German grammar in their earlier covers Roman history from the founding to the sack of
German courses can fine-tune their accuracy. While this Rome by the Gauls. Eutropius’ easy style and accessible
book was written primarily for use in a course dedicated vocabulary make his Breviarium ideal for students
to a rigorous review of German grammar, it could transitioning from the simplified Latin of a first-year
also be used by students in conversation, culture, and textbook. Legends of Early Rome follows the same
literature courses. format as Breyer’s earlier text, War with Hannibal.
2015 | 128 pp. | 4 b/w illus. |
2008 | 496 pp.
Paper | 978-0-300-16543-2 | $30.00
Paper | 978-0-300-12468-2 | $71.00

College Latin War with Hannibal

Authentic Latin Prose for the
An Intermediate Course Beginning Student
Peter L. Corrigan
Brian Beyer
By providing a much-needed grammar review, along
This edition of Book III of Eutropius’s Breviarium ab
with a variety of readings that will suit the tastes of many
urbe condita is designed to be a student’s first encounter
different teaching preferences, this textbook will help
with authentic, unabridged Latin prose. Written in a
students make the transition from beginning Latin to the
simple and direct style, the Breviarium covers the period of
intermediate level. The book is filled with exercises and
Roman history that students find the most interesting—
a balance of prose and verse readings organized around
the  Second Punic War fought against Carthage—and
five topics. After using College Latin, students will be
the original Latin text is supplemented with considerable
reacquainted with all the major Latin grammar and able
learning support allowing students to build both their
to hold their own in the “authors courses” that make up
confidence and their reading skills. 
most intermediate Latin curriculums.
2008 | 128 pp. | 12 b/w illus. |
2015 | 464 pp.
Paper | 978-0-300-13918-1 | $30.00
Paper | 978-0-300-19092-2 | $55.00
Additional resources for teachers are available at yalebooks.com/
warwithhannibal.
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 LATIN

Learn to Read Latin, Second Edition

Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell

“Learn to Read Latin both smooths and speeds the way

to true Latinity. The authors achieve a standard for the
whole rest of the field in breadth and depth of outlook,
to say nothing of accuracy in and love for the subject.”
—Tim Markey, Ph.D., Worcester Academy 

One of the most popular Latin texts on the market, Learn to Read Latin
helps high school and college students acquire the skills to read and
appreciate the great works of Latin literature. It not only presents basic
Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations and examples, but
also offers direct access to original, unaltered Latin texts. As beginning
students learn basic forms and grammar, they also gain familiarity with
patterns of Latin word order and other features of style.

Textbook | 2015 | 688 pp.

This second edition—which now combines the first and second parts
Cloath | 978-0-300-19494-4 | $100.00 into a single textbook—improves upon an already strong foundation
Paper | 978-0-300-19495-1 | $57.00 by streamlining grammatical explanations, increasing the number of
syntax and morphology drills, and offering additional short and longer
Full Workbook | 2015 | 648 pp.
readings in Latin prose and poetry.
Paper | 978-0-300-19496-8 | $45.00
Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and
Workbook Part 1 | 2015 | 432 pp. appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. This
Paper | 978-0-300-19497-5 | $30.00
comprehensive program features:
Workbook Part 2 | 2015 | 288 pp. • a new ancillary website with teacher’s guide, quizzes, tests
Paper | 978-0-300-19498-2 | $30.00 and answer keys
Set | 2015 • vocabulary arranged in order of appearance
Paper | 978-0-300-19499-9 | $90.00
• more streamlined grammar explanations
• refined list of readings
E-mail language.yalepress@yale.edu to • English grammar points and drills for today’s students
request the answer keys (PDF files).
• sections on Latin metrics
• unaltered examples of ancient Latin prose and poetry
• a comprehensive workbook with numerous drills and
homework assignments

Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell teach classics at Collegiate School in

New York City.
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GREEK

Learn to Read Greek

Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell

Learn to Read Greek is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. Like its
Latin predecessor, it has a grammar-based approach and is intended for students who have a serious
interest in learning the language.
The text and workbook include carefully chosen vocabularies and extensive vocabulary notes; clear
and complete presentations of all necessary morphology and syntax; large numbers of drills and drill
sentences; and abundant unabridged sample passages from a variety of Greek authors and texts.

Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell teach classics at Collegiate School in New York City.

“Learn to Read Greek by Keller and Russell clearly will be

the best book available for students in the U.S. or U.K.
who want to learn Greek quickly, precisely, and in the
most rewarding way. It is, in fact, a model textbook.”
—Richard Martin, Stanford University

Textbook, Part 1 | 2011 | 384 pp. | 1 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-11589-5 | $45.00
Workbook, Part 1 | 2011 | 632 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-11591-8 | $32.00
Workbook and Textbook Set, Part 1 | 978-0-300-16771-9 | $65.00

Textbook, Part 2 | 2011 | 512 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-11590-1 | $45.00

Workbook, Part 2 | 2011 | 512 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-11592-5 | $32.00
Workbook and Textbook Set, Part 2 | 978-0-300-16772-6 | $65.00

E-mail language.yalepress@yale.edu to request the answer keys (PDF files).

Attica: Intermediate Classical Greek

Readings, Review, and Exercises
Cynthia L. Claxton
Effective as either a primary or secondary textbook, Attica: Intermediate Classical Greek
fills a gap in the available materials by simultaneously providing a much-needed grammar
review and an introduction to primary texts that students will be working with in the
second and third year of study. Through comprehensive exercises, extensive explanatory
notes, and an ancillary web site with additional materials, this text gives students the
skills they need to become comfortable with advanced second-year literary material.
2013 | 392 pp. | 6 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-17876-0 | $45.00
Instructor resources available at yalebooks.com/attica.

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 Japanese

Japanese: The Spoken Language Japanese: The Written Language

Eleanor Harz Jorden with Mari Noda and Masayuki Itomitsu Eleanor Harz Jorden and Mari Noda
This three-volume textbook stresses Japanese as it is This new series is designed to enable the learner
spoken today in Japan. Jorden has introduced the language of Japanese to establish a solid foundation for
in a totally systematic fashion and in manageable communicating with the Japanese through the written
segments, so that students who have mastered the language. It is arranged so that each lesson coordinates
material in the book can handle the spoken language with the lesson in Japanese: The Spoken Language of the
with considerable facility. same number.
Part 1 Textbook | 1987 | Paper | 978-0-300-03834-7 | $50.00 Part 1 Textbook | 2005 | 160 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-04818-6 | $40.00
Supplement: Japanese Typescript | 978-0-300-04280-1 | $36.00 Workbook | 2005 | 112 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-04821-6 | $40.00
Question and Answer Supplement | 978-0-300-05941-0 | $22.00
Coming Spring 2018
Part 2 Textbook | 1988 | Paper | 978-0-300-04188-0 | $50.00
Part 2 Textbook | 2018 | 296 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-10954-2 | $42.00
Supplement: Japanese Typescript | 978-0-300-04281-8 | $36.00
Workbook | 2018 | 224 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-10953-5 | $42.00
Part 3 Textbook | 1990 | Paper | 978-0-300-04191-0 | $51.00
Audio files and flash cards are available from the companion
Supplement: Japanese Typescript | 978-0-300-04282-5 | $36.00
website, yalebooks.com.
Japanese: The Spoken Language CD-ROM for Part 1 | 2005
978-0-300-13974-7 | $68.00
DVD-ROM for Parts 2 and 3 | 2008 | 978-0-300-07563-2 | $68.00 Reading Japanese
Eleanor Harz Jorden and Hamako Ito Chaplin

Living Japanese This text presents a thorough introduction to the modern

written language of Japan. It introduces 425 kanji characters.
Diversity in Language and Lifestyles 1976 | 613 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-01913-1 | $58.00
Karen Colligan-Taylor
This text draws students into the lives of thirty-three
Japanese people from age seven to seventy-five. As students
Sura-Sura
listen to diverse viewpoints on cultural and social issues, they A Text for Intermediate Japanese
will develop an extensive vocabulary and become accustomed Chie Imaizumi Chao and Masahiko Seto
to natural speech and linguistic differences.
2016 | 348 pp. | 35 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-22266-1 | $49.00 This intermediate level text presents short stories and
essays in modern Japanese, alongside exercises and other
helpful aids.
1996 | 182 pp. | Paper | 978-0-887-10186-1 | $31.95
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CHINESE

Tell It Like It Is! BY CYNTHIA NING:

Natural Chinese for Advanced Learners Exploring in Chinese

Jianqi Wang A DVD-Based Course in Intermediate Chinese
This intermediate-level multimedia Chinese program
This unique program emphasizes authentic, unrehearsed
consists of a student text and accompanying DVD that uses
Chinese language as it is spoken among Chinese
unscripted dialogues as the basis for students to make the
speakers and connects students to Chinese culture,
transition from the basic skills acquired at the elementary
politics, and issues by means of the popular program of
level to the more complex comprehension skills required at
China Central Television, Tell It Like It Is!
the intermediate level.
2005 | 528 pp.
Volume 1 | 2007 | 336 pp.
Cloth w/ online media | 978-0-300-22900-4 | $110.00
Paper w/ DVD | 978-0-300-11569-7 | $47.00 
3-CD Audio Program | 978-0-300-10471-4 | $37.00  Volume 2 | 2007 | 288 pp.
More resources are available at yalebooks.com/tellit. Paper w/ DVD | 978-0-300-11583-3 | $47.00

David and Helen in China Communicating in Chinese

An Intermediate Course in Modern Chinese An Interactive Approach to Beginning Chinese
Communicating in Chinese offers a proficiency-based
with Online Media approach to learning standard Mandarin. Focusing on
Phyllis Ni Zhang, Yuan-Yuan Meng, Donald K. Chang, all four skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing),
and Irene C. Liu the program consists of a series of graded tasks that
approximate the real-life tasks that a student might face.
This splendid intermediate level textbook for modern Students must learn and manipulate vocabulary and
Chinese is designed for use in both independent structures to achieve specific real-life ends.
study and the classroom. Available in two volumes,
it emphasizes task-based learning as well as greater Student’s Book for Listening and Speaking (w/ CD-ROM)
cultural understanding. An accompanying audio 1993 | Paper | 978-0-887-10175-5  | $49.00
program forms an essential part of the course. Student’s Book for Reading and Writing
1994 | Paper | 978-0-887-10178-6 | $46.00
Simplified Character Edition | 1999 | 412 pp. Student Lab Workbook: A Series of Exercises for Listening Comprehension
Paper | 978-0-300-22660-7 | $92.00 1999 | Paper | 978-0-887-10197-7 | $35.00
Traditional Character Edition | 1999 | 458 pp. Listening and Speaking Audio CDs (6)
Paper | 978-0-300-22729-1 | $92.00 1993 | 6-CD set | 978-0-887-10206-6 | $50.00
Audio CDs for Student Lab Workbook (5)
1999 | 5-CD set | 978-0-300-10935-1 | $44.95

More resources are available at yalebooks.com.

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 Encounters
Chinese Language and Culture
Cynthia Y. Ning, John S. Montanaro and Steven Tschudi
Designed for English-speaking students, Encounters: Chinese Language and
Culture follows a carefully structured and cumulative approach that focuses on
learning through action, rather than through rote memorization.
Weaving cultural information throughout the text, Encounters helps students
to understand that Chinese language and culture are inseparable, and prepares
them to navigate real-world environments and conversations with native speakers.
With beginner and intermediate levels, each featuring two combined student
textbook-workbooks, Encounters utilizes the four-skill approach of listening,
speaking, reading, and writing within a cultural context. Used in conjunction
with a wealth of supplemental multimedia, each lesson reinforces these skills to
foster proficiency in everyday Chinese. The task-based communicative approach
prepares students for daily interactions within the target environment, while
promoting quick and assured student advancement.
Encounters keeps your students enthusiastic, motivated, and challenged with
an abundance of learning opportunities:
• Full-color combined textbook-workbooks utilize both simplified and traditional
characters, and contain exercises and activities based on real-life interactions.
• www.EncountersChinese.com is a comprehensive, mobile-friendly
website that provides on-demand access to the multimedia, flashcards,
and additional resources. The purchase of a new Student Book includes 24
months of complimentary access to the website.
• A captivating dramatic video series, filmed entirely on location in China,
features a dramatic story line and segments devoted to authentic Chinese
culture and history—making today’s China come alive. The dramatic series
includes optional subtitles in English, pinyin, and simplified and traditional
Chinese characters.
• 300+ minutes of audio use authentic conversations and expert narration to
assist students with listening comprehension, pronunciation, and vocabulary.
• Character Writing Workbooks provide opportunities to master Chinese
characters and supply considerable information about each character—stroke
order, pronunciation and tone, and related words, phrases, and sentences.
• A Character Trainer app with stroke order recognition allows students to
practice writing both simplified and traditional.
• Online Workbooks correlate with and expand material in the Student Books
and provide self-graded quizzes and an online grade book.
• Annotated Instructor’s Editions provide answer keys to exercises, teaching
tips, and suggested activities to create a proficiency-oriented classroom.
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“This is the best Chinese language textbook that I have seen.
It’s so authentic and speaking-based versus grammar-based.
My students love the video and always want to watch more.”
—Bei Chen University of North Texas

INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS
Student textbook/workbook combination
Includes 24 months of media access on the Encounters website

Student Book 1 ISBN: 978-0-300-16162-5 $54.99

Student Book 2 ISBN: 978-0-300-16163-2 $61.99
Student Book 3 ISBN: 978-0-300-16164-9 $59.99
Student Book 4 ISBN: 978-0-300-16165-6 $62.99

Annotated Instructor’s Editions

The Annotated Instructor’s Edition that accompanies each student book is provided free with adoption.

Annotated Instructor’s Edition 1 2011 | Paper | 336 pp. | ISBN: 978-0-300-16166-3

Annotated Instructor’s Edition 2 2012 | Paper | 400 pp. | ISBN: 978-0-300-16167-0
Anotated Instructor’s Edition 3 2016 | Paper | 272 pp. | ISBN: 978-0-300-16168-7
Annotated Instructor’s Edition 4 2016 | Paper | 320 pp. | ISBN: 978-0-300-16169-4

Character Writing Workbooks

Character Writing Workbook 1 ISBN: 978-0-300-16170-0 $28.99
Character Writing Workbook 2 ISBN: 978-0-300-16171-7 $29.99

Screenplays
Screenplay 1 ISBN: 978-0-300-16605-7 $29.99
Screenplay 2 ISBN: 978-0-300-17598-1 $29.99

Online Workbooks
Online Workbook for Student Book 1 ISBN: 978-0-300-20375-2 $29.99
Online Workbook for Student Book 2 ISBN: 978-0-300-20382-0 $32.99
Online Workbook for Student Book 3 ISBN: 978-0-300-23292-9 $32.99
Online Workbook for Student Book 4 ISBN: 978-0-300-20375-2 $32.99

Apps
Character Trainer App $3.99
For simplified and traditional characters. Available on iOS and Android.

Learn more at encounterschinese.com

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 CHINESE

Learning Chinese The Lady in the Painting

A Foundation Course in Mandarin, Elementary A Basic Chinese Reader: Expanded Edition
and Intermediate Levels Claudia Ross with Jocelyn Ross
Julian K. Wheatley Story by Fred Fang-yu Wang, drawings by Luke Chen
Designed to build language ability while stimulating The Lady in the Painting is the only full-length story
curiosity, Learning Chinese teaches intermediate written in Chinese for low-intermediate level learners
conversational and literary skills in Mandarin. of Chinese as a foreign language. The story is told with
Conversational lessons are separated from lessons on vocabulary and structures familiar to students who
reading and writing characters, allowing instructors have completed a basic course in Chinese. Using an
to adapt the book to their students and to their course inventory of only about 300 Chinese characters, it serves
goals while exposing students to the geography, history, as an excellent transition between the short reading
and cultures of China. passages that students encounter in a basic level Chinese
course and the longer and more demanding passages in
Elementary Level | 2010 | 656 pp. | 48 b/w illus. subsequent levels.
Paper | 978-0-300-14117-7 | $65.00
Intermediate Level | 2014 | 504 pp. | 66 b/w illus. 2008 | 160 pp. | 46 b/w illus. | Paper w/ CD-Rom
Paper | 978-0-300-14118-4 | $52.00 Simplified Character Edition | 978-0-300-12516-0 | $37.00
Traditional Character Edition | 978-0-300-11549-9 | $37.00
Course resources available online at yalebooks.com/wheatley.

Chinese Grammar Made Easy Fundamentals of Chinese

A Practical and Effective Guide for Teachers Characters
John Jing-hua Yin
Edited by Jianhua Bai
This book acknowledges that learning to listen and
This guide presents instructors with innovative
speak in Chinese is a very different process from
and classroom-tested techniques for teaching 150
learning to read and write the language, and it focuses
fundamental grammar points.  Its communicative,
exclusively on developing skills in reading and writing
meaning-based approach helps teachers to engage
Chinese characters. The book elucidates the connections
students by bringing grammar into a real-life context. 
between the shapes and meanings of basic Chinese
Clear, concise explanations and a variety of learning
characters, teaching students to recognize and write
activities are included to reinforce each grammar point
characters through easy, enjoyable lessons.
and provide structured practice.   
2006 | 424 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-10945-0 | $45.00
2008 | 336 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-12279-4 | $56.00

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CHINESE

Advanced Chinese Introduction to Research in

Intention, Strategy, and Communication Chinese Source Materials
Yanfang Tang and Qinghai Chen Alvin P. Cohen
Written and designed for advanced learners of Chinese, This book serves as a succint and thorough guide to
this book and its accompanying audio program focus on pursuing basic research in Chinese sources. Designed as
the variety of linguistic strategies that are essential in a tool for both primary and secondary texts, it reviews
real-life communications. terminology, modes of organization, and cultural
2004 | 496 pp. implications that are relevant to Chinese writings in the
Paper w/ online media | 978-0-300-21431-4 | $69.00
humanities and social sciences.
Course resources are available at yalebooks.com/advancedchinese. 2000 | 788 pp. | Paper | 978-0-887-10213-4 | $75.00

Advanced Business Chinese Chinese Characters

Economy and Commerce in a Changing China
A Genealogy and Dictionary
and the Changing World
Rick Harbaugh
Fangyuan Yuan
This dictionary is specially designed to help students
This is the first business Chinese textbook for advanced understand, appreciate and remember Chinese
learners of Chinese in which current economic issues in characters. Its features include a brief etymology for each
China are addressed in depth. character entry and genealogical charts that highlight the
2003 | 368 pp. | 30 b/w illus. connections between characters.
Paper | 978-0-300-10050-1 | $53.00 1999 | 544 pp. | Paper | 978-0-966-07500-7 | $19.95

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 CHINESE

Talks on Chinese Culture Dictionary for Readers of

Vivian Ling Modern Chinese Prose
This book is a post-basic Chinese language textbook Your Guide to the 250 Key Grammatical
intended for students who possess solid mastery of at
least two years of college-level Chinese. It is designed to Markers in Chinese
serve as a bridge along the path from basic command to Stanley Mickel
professional level functionality.
This easy-to-use dictionary is designed for students of
1997 | 246 pp. | Paper | 978-0-887-10191-5 | $34.95 all levels. Organized in pinyin alphabetical order with
simplified Chinese characters, the text also includes an
illustrative explanation of 250 grammatical terms that
Speak Cantonese are central to the understanding of modern Chinese.

Parker Po-fei Huang and Gerard P. Kok 1999 | 254 pp. | Paper | 978-0-887-10193-9 | $37.00

This series that teaches the modern spoken language of

Cantonese, one of the major dialects of Chinese. It uses
pinyin romanization and emphasizes the development of
Reading Chinese Newspapers
vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. Tactics and Skills
Book 1 | 424 pp. | 1999 | Paper | 978-0-887-10094-9 | $39.00 Stanley Mickel
MP3 Audio Disc | 978-0-300-11476-8 | $99.95 This comprehensive text surveys the grammar and
Book 2 | 478 pp. | 1985 | Paper | 978-0-887-10096-3 | $45.00 vocabulary necessary to comprehend writing in Chinese
MP3 Audio Disc | 978-0-300-11477-5 | $49.95 newspapers from mainland China and Taiwan. The
Book 3 | 312 pp. | 1967 | Paper | 978-0-887-10098-7 | $32.00 book’s content is supported by helpful reading exercises.
MP3 Audio Disc | 978-0-300-11478-2 | $49.95
Textbook
1995 | 288 pp. | Paper | 978-0-887-10165-6 | $41.00
Workbook
1996 | 206 pp. | Paper | 978-0-887-10185-4 | $31.95

Learn more at yalebooks.com /chinese.

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CHINESE

Learn to Write Chinese Read Chinese

Characters A Beginning Text in the Chinese Character,
Johan Björkstén Expanded Edition
Fang-yu Wang
This book is the only introductory manual for writing
Chinese characters prepared specifically for an English- This series covers Chinese characters in both simplified
speaking audience. The author guides the reader and traditional forms. The text uses both pinyin and
through the fundamentals of writing and introduces Yale romanization where appropriate, and includes
the different types of script used in China today, their writing and stroke order charts.
evolution, and their place in Chinese tradition. 
1994 | 123 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-05771-3 | $22.00 Book 1 | 1982 | Paper | 978-0-887-10064-2 | $19.95
Book 2 | 1983 | Paper | 978-0-887-10066-6 | $34.00
Book 3 | 1965 | Paper | 978-0-887-10068-0 | $21.00
Reading Chinese for
Proficiency A Hu Shi Reader
An Introduction to Signs An Advanced Reading Text for Modern
Tao-chung Yao Chinese
This text is designed to facilitate the student’s ability to Sharon Shih-jiu Hou and Chih-ping Chou
read authentic signs in Chinese. It contains vocabulary,
notes with accompanying exercises, self-tests, and This reader presents nine of the most significant essays
authentic illustrations. All signs are given in both of Hu Shi, the twentieth century historian, diplomat,
traditional and simplified Chinese characters, and the and philosopher who championed the vernacular
book uses pinyin romanization. language movement and vigorously supported modern
values. The text is annotated, and includes both
1994 | Paper | 978-0-887-10183-0 | $16.95 traditional characters and pinyin romanization.

1990 | 308 pp. | Paper | 978-0-887-10160-1 | $32.00

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 CHINESE

Spoken Standard Chinese Written Standard Chinese

Parker Po-fei Huang and Hugh M. Stimson A Beginning to Intermediate Reading Text for
with Vivien Wong Modern Chinese
This series emphasizes natural dialogue and familiarity Parker Po-fei Huang and Hugh M. Stimson
with a modern, adult vocabulary. An accompanying with Vivien Wong
audio program is available.
This series is designed to bring the student to the
Volume 1 | 330 pp. | 1976 | Paper | 978-0-887-10107-6 | $34.00
1300 character recognition level, in both traditional
and simplified forms. After Book Four, the student
Workbook 1 | 142 pp. | 1982 | Paper | 978-0-887-10109-0 | $18.00
will be prepared to start reading Chinese newspapers,
Volume 2 | 330 pp. | 1978 | Paper | 978-0-887-10110-6 | $34.00 periodicals, or literature.
Workbook 2 | 118 pp. | 1982 | Paper | 978-0-887-10112-0 | $18.00
Volume 1 | 278 pp. | 1980| Paper | 978-0-887-10129-8 | $29.00
Workbook 1 | 120 pp. | 1983 | Paper | 978-0-887-10133-5 | $18.00
Volume 2 | 268 pp. | 1980 | Paper | 978-0-887-10131-1 | $29.00
Speaking Chinese in China Workbook 2 | 180 pp. | 1983 | Paper | 978-0-887-10134-2 | $18.00
Ying Hsu and J. Marvin Brown Volume 3 | 308 pp. | 1986 | Paper | 978-0-887-10147-2 | $32.00
Volume 4 | 390 pp. | 1991 | Paper | 978-0-887-10158-8 | $39.00
This text represents a second-year conversation course
emphasizing modern usage of the language. It is
structured in dialogue format, with accompanying
explanatory notes for vocabulary and grammar. Pinyin
and Yale romanization, and traditional and simplified
The Magic Ark
characters, are used throughout. The Adventures of “Tiny Wang”
Peggy Wang and Lao She
1983 | 316 pp. | 20 illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-03032-7 | $35.00 The charming children’s story popularized by
celebrated modern writer Lao She is here retold in
simplified Chinese, with pinyin romanization and at
the 700 character level.
1988 | 176 pp. | Paper | 978-0-887-10143-4 | $30.00

Learn more at yalebooks.com /chinese.

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CHINESE

Beginning, Intermediate, and Beginning, Intermediate, and

Advanced Chinese Advanced Chinese Reader
Aimed at secondary school and college levels, this This edition introduces some of the main varieties of
series is an introduction to spoken Chinese. It includes Chinese as found before and after the establishment of
dialogues, pronunciation drills, sentence-building the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Unique features
exercises, examples of characters, and more. are the emphasis on compounds and their extensive use
in various types of exercises.
Beginning Chinese, Second Revised Edition
1976 | 601 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-02058-8 | $40.00 Beginning Chinese Reader, Second Edition
Character Text Part 1 | 1977 | 539 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-02060-1 | $55.00
1976 | 524 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-02059-5 | $52.00 Part 2 | 1977 | 512 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-02061-8 | $52.00
Intermediate Chinese Intermediate Chinese Reader
1964 | 554 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-00064-1 | $52.00 Part 1 | 1967 | 740 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-00065-8 | $63.00
Character Text Part 2 | 1968 | 748 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-00066-5 | $66.00
1965 | 434 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-00062-7 | $42.00 Advanced Chinese Reader
Advanced Chinese 1969 | 720 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-01083-1 | $66.00
1966 | 680 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-00056-6 | $52.00
Character Text
1966 | 680 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-00063-4 | $58.00

Supplementary Reading Series for Intermediate Chinese Reader

This series is designed to supplement the Intermediate Chinese Reader by John DeFrancis. It is presented in simplified
characters, with pinyin romanization, and an accompanying audio program is available.

Volume One: Volume Four: Volume Five:

The White-Haired Girl Sun Yat-Sen Wu Song Kills a Tiger
Chih-yu Ho Yung Teng Chia-yee Yung Teng Chia-yee
The White-Haired Girl relates the This book tells the story of Sun One of the most famous episodes from
story of one of the most famous Yat-Sen, the founder of the Chinese Water Margin, a traditional Chinese
figures of the Chinese Revolution. Republic. novel, is here retold in simple Chinese.
1976 | Paper | 1980 | 60 pp. | Paper | 1978 | 62 pp. |Paper |
978-0-887-10116-8 | $8.95 978-0-887-10119-9 | $16.00 978-0-887-10120-5 | $8.95

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 CHINESE

Annotated Quotations from Fifty-Five T’ang Poems

Chairman Mao A Text in the Reading and Understanding of
John DeFrancis T’ang Poetry
Hugh M. Stimson
The famous little red book of Mao Tse-tung’s
thoughts contains basic ideas that permeate virtually Four masters of the shi form of Chinese poetry, who are
all discussion in China of a wide range of topics—war generally considered to be giants in the entire history of
and peace, socialism and communism, culture and art, Chinese literature, are represented in this book: three
women and youth, study and education, politics and from the eighth century, and one from the ninth. A few
government, economics and philosophy, morality and works by other well-known poets are also included. The
ethics, and so on. The Annotated Quotations provides author provides a general background sketch, instruction
the original Chinese text together with a complete to the student, a description of the phonological system
pinyin transcription. The annotation includes regular and the spelling used, as well as an outline of the
characters, simplified forms, pinyin transcription, and grammar of T’ang shi, insofar as it is known.
English definitions. Structural notes are provided for
passages of special difficulty. A cumulative glossary 1976 | 258 pp. | Paper | 978-0-887-10026-0 | $26.00
of first occurrences of all characters and vocabulary
items not in the Index Volume to the DeFrancis series
concludes the work. 
1975 | 336 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-01870-7 | $34.00
Contemporary Chinese Fiction
Four Short Stories
Edited by Neal Robbins
Strange Stories from a This volume contains fifteen selections from the writings
Chinese Studio of Hu Shih, Sun Yat-Sen, Liang Ch’i-ch’ao, and others.
It uses traditional characters with Yale romanization.
Linda Hsia and Roger Yeu 1986 | 238 pp. | Paper | 978-0-887-10140-3 | $34.00
Twenty tales selected from the popular novel Liao chai
chih yi by P’u Sung-Ling are here retold in simple Chinese
for the beginning student. The text is at the 600 character
level, and is given in both complex and traditional
characters and both Yale and pinyin romanization.
1977 | 186 pp. | Paper | 978-0-887-10114-4 | $21.00

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BIBLICAL HEBREW HEBREW

Biblical Hebrew, Second Edition Readings in Biblical Hebrew

Text, Workbook, and Audio An Intermediate Textbook
Victoria Hoffer, Bonnie Pedrotti Kittel, and Ehud Ben Zvi, Maxine Hancock, and Richard A. Beinert
Rebecca Abts Wright This textbook will teach students who have completed
This revised edition of the best-selling Biblical Hebrew is an introductory course in biblical Hebrew how to
thoroughly updated and augmented for a new generation read and interpret a wide range of texts from the Old
of students. Designed for use in a two-semester course, Testament/Hebrew Bible. The text includes drills and
the book’s fifty-five lessons are constructed around exercises for classroom use.
Biblical verses or segments and arranged in order of 1993 | 256 pp. | Cloth | 978-0-300-05573-3 | $50.00
increasing complexity. Accompanying the textbook are
a 3-CD audio program, and a companion volume, the
Supplement for Enhanced Comprehension.
Cloth Text and Workbook w/ online media | 9780300222647 | $72.00 Learn to Write the Hebrew Script
Supplement for Enhanced Comprehension | 176 pp. Aleph Through the Looking Glass
Paper | 0978-0-300-09863-1 | $28.00
Jonathan Orr-Stav
The textbook’s answer key is available for download from yalebooks.com. This book presents a new and innovative approach to
learning the Hebrew script. Drawing on the common
ancestry of European and Hebrew alphabets and the
Biblical Hebrew for Students of natural inclinations of the writing hand, Orr-Stav shows
how the Hebrew script may be understood and acquired
Modern Israeli Hebrew almost intuitively through a three-step transformation
of ordinary Roman-script cursive.
Marc Zvi Brettler
2005 | 176 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-11334-1 | $26.00 
This clear, comprehensive textbook is the first to teach
biblical Hebrew to college-level students of modern
Hebrew. It utilizes authentic biblical texts in both its
explanations of fundamental points and in its numerous
well-constructed exercises.
2001 | 368 pp. | 40 b/w illus. + 5 line drawings
Cloth | 978-0-300-08440-5 | $55.00

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HEBREW YIDDISH

A Social History of Hebrew Yidish af yidish

Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period Grammatical, Lexical, and Conversational
William M. Schniedewind Materials for the Second and Third Years of Study
An ambitious and strikingly original study of classical David Goldberg
Hebrew, from its origins through the Rabbinic period, this Written entirely in Yiddish, this innovative and
book combines linguistics and social history to view the story accessible language text provides opportunities for
of the ancient Israelites through the lens of their language. intermediate-level students of Yiddish to improve
2013 | 280 pp. | Cloth | 978-0-300-17668-1 | $35.00 their conversational skills, grammar, and vocabulary. It
includes numerous written exercises designed to clarify
difficult language problems, as well as conversational
Modern Hebrew-English exercises that invite role play and discussions of readings
from Yiddish literature, folklore, and the social sciences.
Dictionary 1996 | 290 pp. | 21 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-18946-9 |
Avraham Zilkha $44.00 
This Hebrew-English dictionary presents over 20,000
listings, many of which are not found in other Hebrew-
English dictionaries. Special attention is given to the
language of the media, with vocabulary likely to be found
Yiddish-English-Hebrew
in newspapers, journals, and contemporary fiction. No Dictionary
advanced knowledge of Hebrew grammar is needed.
A Reprint of the 1928 Expanded Second
1989 | 312 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-04648-9 | $32.00
Edition
Alexander Harkavy
Modern English-Hebrew With an introduction by Dovid Katz
Dictionary Alexander Harkavy (1863–1939) is credited with almost
single-handedly creating an intellectual environment
Avraham Zilkha
conducive to Yiddish, and his trilingual dictionary is
This comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary contains an indispensable tool for research in Yiddish language
some 30,000 entries, including contemporary technical and literature. This dictionary has been a classic since it
terms, recently coined Hebrew words, and translations originally appeared in New York in 1925.
for common idioms. Designed in an easy-to-use format,
it features meticulous pronunciation information and is 2005 | 640 pp. | Cloth | 978-0-300-10839-2 | $90.00
the first dictionary to focus on the accurate translation of
words with multiple meanings.
2002 | 464 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-09005-5 | $30.00
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RUSSIAN

Poetry Reader for Russian News from Russia

Learners Language, Life, and the Russian Media
Edited by Julia Titus Andrei Bogomolov and Marita Nummikoski
Illustrations by Mario Moore and Wayde McIntosh This unique textbook draws on printed mass media,
Through the poetry of nineteenth- and twentieth- including online media sources, to introduce students to
century Russian authors, including Pushkin and varied aspects of Russian life.
Akhmatova, Poetry Reader for Russian Learners helps 2004 | 144 pp. | 32 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-10437-0 | $35.00
upper-beginner, intermediate, and advanced Russian
students refine their language skills. Poems are coded
by level of difficulty. The text facilitates students’
interaction with authentic texts by means of a complete Russian-English Dictionary of
set of learning tools, including biographical sketches of
each poet, stress marks, annotations, exercises, questions Idioms
for discussion, and a glossary. Revised Edition
2015 | 248 pp. | 12 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-18463-1 | $35.00 Sophia Lubensky
Visit the companion website at russianpoetry.yale.edu.
This is the most innovative, comprehensive, and
scholarly bilingual dictionary of Russian idioms
The Meek One: A Fantastic Story available today. It includes close to 14,000 idioms,
set expressions, and sayings found in contemporary
An Annotated Russian Reader colloquial Russian and in literature from the nineteenth
century to the present. The Russian idioms are provided
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Edited by Julia Titus; with many English equivalents to render idioms in
Illustrations by Kristen Robinson various contexts. Illustrative examples are cited to
show how the idioms are used in context. Each entry
This fully annotated paperback learner’s edition of
also contains a grammatical description of the idiom, a
Dostoevsky’s short story The Meek One is intended for
definition, and stylistic and usage information.
intermediate and advanced Russian students. In addition
to the Russian text, the book includes an introduction 2014 | 992 pp. | Cloth | 978-0-300-16227-1 | $85.00
discussing the story’s historical context, literary
significance, and critical response; an extensive glossary
and a learner’s dictionary; discussion questions; and
vocabulary quizzes, exercises, and self-tests.
2011 | 176 pp. | 6 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-16232-5 | $22.00
Visit the companion website at yalebooks.com/meek.

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 RUSSIAN

Advanced Russian Through Russian Full Circle

History A First-Year Russian Textbook
Benjamin Rifkin and Olga Kagan with Anna Yatsenko Donna Oliver with Edie Furniss
This text with companion website is a Russian reader Deliberately “bare-bones” in its design, Russian Full
for intermediate, advanced, and heritage learners of Circle allows instructors to deliver in one academic year
Russian.  The book’s 36 chapters focus on the history a full first-year Russian language curriculum. It consists
of Russia, from Kievan Rus’ to the post-Soviet era. of ten lessons that cover all major grammar topics and
Each chapter features a written text with online provide an ample amount of essential vocabulary on
materials: a brief lecture and learning tasks designed to a variety of themes. In promoting both flexibility for
promote students’ abilities to understand and produce faculty and self-directed learning for students, Russian
argument in the style of scholarly discourse, both in Full Circle provides a needed alternative to the two-
speech and in writing.  volume, densely packed first-year Russian textbooks
currently on the market.
2007 | 264 pp. | 5 maps 8 photos | Paper |
978-0-300-10947-4 | $64.00 
2013 | 384 pp. | 105 color + 46 b/w ill. | Cloth |
Visit the website yalebooks.com for exercises and audio program.
978-0-300-18283-5 | $85.00
Visit the companion website russianfirstcircle.com for cultural

Russian in Use content and supplemental audiovisual materials.

An Interactive Approach to Advanced

Communicative Competence Russian Motion Verbs for
Sandra Freels Rosengrant Intermediate Students
Russian in Use is a four-skill language textbook intended William J. Mahota
for advanced students of Russian. The book focuses on This handbook includes a variety of exercises and
high-frequency, nonliterary topics of general interest: presents up-to-date examples in colloquial language
geography, education, politics, ecology, and Russians’ to enable intermediate students to use motion verbs
perceptions of America. An instructor’s manual, which with facility and to participate comfortably in everyday
contains keys to the exercises and transcripts of the Russian conversations.
listening passages, is available as a PDF file.
1996 | 160 pp. Paper | 978-0-300-06413-1 | $34.00 
2006 | 448 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-10943-6 | $68.00

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AFRICAN

Igbo-English Dictionary The Hausa Language

A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar
Language, with an English-Igbo Index Paul Newman
Michael J. C. Echeruo This comprehensive book is the most authoritative and
This is the first comprehensive and authoritative detailed grammar of the Hausa language ever written. A
dictionary of Igbo, the language of more than twenty world authority on Hausa, Paul Newman offers an easy-
million Nigerians. Prepared by a native speaker of to-use and thorough grammar that will be indispensable
Igbo, the dictionary focuses on words and phrases to both students and teachers of this important African
encountered in everyday life and in Igbo texts. The language—the native tongue of some 35 million people
author includes words from all Igbo dialects and and a second language for 15 million more.
provides a convenient English index. 2000 | 800 pp. | 9 b/w illus. | Cloth | 978-0-300-08189-3 | $95.00
1998 | 304 pp. | Cloth | 978-0-300-07307-2 | $63.00

A Hausa-English Dictionary
An English-Hausa Dictionary Paul Newman
Roxana Ma Newman
This up-to-date volume, the first Hausa-English
This is a modern comprehensive dictionary designed dictionary published in a quarter of a century, is written
specifically for English-speaking users who wish to with language learners and practical users in mind.
acquire communicative fluency in Hausa. It contains a With over 10,000 entries, it primarily covers Standard
broad selection of words that the average person is likely Nigerian Hausa but also includes numerous forms from
to need in speaking and writing Hausa for everyday use. Niger and other dialect areas of Nigeria.
1990 | 344 pp. | Cloth | 978-0-300-04702-8 | $50.00 2007 | 272 pp. | 978-0-300-12246-6 | $65.00

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 SOUTH ASIAN & MIDDLE EASTERN LANGUAGES

Jé K`Á Ka Yorùbá Let’s Study Urdu

An Intermediate Course An Introduction to the Script
Antonia Yétúndé Folárìn Schleicher Ali S. Asani and Syed Akbar Hyder
This intermediate textbook for courses in Yoruba, Let’s Study Urdu! is a comprehensive introduction to
one of the principal languages in Nigeria, presents a the Urdu language that draws on a range of real-life
theme-based, communication-oriented approach that contexts, popular film songs, and prized works of Urdu
teaches language through culture as well as grammar. literature. A variety of effective aural, oral, and written
Includes monologues, dialogues, poems, and songs, drills will help students master the language while
as well as twelve readings used as points of departure keeping them entertained. Includes multimedia.
for individual and class exercises that further students’
An Introductory Course | 2007 | 528 pp.
proficiency in reading, speaking, listening to, and
writing Yoruba. Paper w/ online media | 978-0-300-21438-3 | $62.00
An Introduction to the Script | 2007 | 104 pp.
1998 | 256 pp. | 104 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-07145-0 | $32.00 Paper w/ online media | 978-0-300-23489-3 | $36.00

Course resources are available online at

yalebooks.com/urdu and yalebooks.com/urduscript.

Modern Persian
Spoken and Written
Donald L. Stilo, Kamran Talattof, and Jerome W. Clinton
The Tale of Kiêu
A Bilingual Edition of Nguyen Du`s Truyên Kiêu
Although Persian is one of the world’s oldest languages,
in its modern form it is still spoken by more than forty Translated by Hùynh Sanh Thông
million people in Iran and by more than twenty million With an Historical Essay by Alexander B. Woodside
people elsewhere. These volumes provide students from
Since its publication in the early nineteenth century,
beginning to intermediate levels with a mastery of modern
this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the
Persian (also known as Farsi) and with an understanding
supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thông’s
of colloquial Persian. They offer extended vocabulary,
new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages
grammar, and essays on aspects of Iranian culture. Volume
facing the Vietnamese text) is illuminated by notes that
1 emphasizes speaking and understanding, and Volume 2
give comparative passages from the Chinese novel on
focuses on the written language.
which the poem was based, details on Chinese allusions,
2005 | 1 map, includes audio CD and literal translations with background information
Volume 1 | 544 pp. | Cloth | 978-0-300-10051-8 | $90.00 explaining Vietnamese proverbs and folk sayings.
Volume 2 | 560 pp. | Cloth | 978-0-300-10052-5 | $90.00 1987 | 216 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-04051-7 | $28.00

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CAMBODIAN

By Franklin E. Huffman:
Spoken Cambodian Cambodian-English Glossary
Modern Spoken Cambodian Franklin E. Huffman and Im Proum
The aim of this volume is to provide the student with a
thorough command of the basic structures of standard Designed to accompany the series of Cambodian readers
spoken Cambodian. prepared by Franklin E. Huffman and Im Proum, this
work is now reissued as an aid not only to students
1970 | 480 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-01316-0 | $45.00 of the Cambodian language but also to Cambodians
residing in English-speaking countries. The largest
such glossary compiled to date, it includes some 10,000
Cambodian System of Writing words, with definitions that are useful and complete
at a general level, beyond the specific context of the
and Beginning Reader published readings.
The reader contains 32 selections from some of the 1981 | 152 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-02070-0 | $21.00
most important and best-known works of Cambodian
literature in a variety of genres–historical prose,
folktales, epic poetry, didactic verse, religious literature,
the modern novel, poems and songs, and so forth. It English for Speakers of Khmer
concludes with a bibliography of some sixty items on
Franklin E. Huffman and Im Proum
Cambodian literature.
1970 | 380 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-01314-6 | $37.00
This is an essential resource for Khmer refugees in
America and Europe and in camps in Southeast Asia
to acquire competence in English. Includes a section
addressed to the English teacher; fifteen lessons based
Intermediate Cambodian Reader on practical, everyday situations; pronunciation drills;
grammar notes and drills; and model conversations in
This book is a sequel to the author’s Cambodian System both English and Khmer. An English-Khmer glossary,
of Writing and Beginning Reader, published by the an index of pronunciation drills, and an index of
Yale University Press in 1970.  It is intended to develop grammar notes complete the book.
the student’s ability to the point of reading unedited
1983 | 608 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-03031-0 | $55.00
Cambodian texts with the aid of a dictionary. 
1972 | 502 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-01552-2 | $50.00

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CAMBODIAN IRISH & POLISH

Cambodian Literary Reader Beginning Polish

and Glossary Alexander M. Schenker
Franklin E. Huffman A standard text for the teaching of Polish, this revised
edition introduces two new features: a grammatical
The reader contains 32 selections from some of the sketch of Polish and an index. Volume Two contains
most important and best-known works of Cambodian drills for the lessons in Volume One designed specifically
literature in a variety of genres. The glossary contains for classroom instruction, a survey of Polish grammar,
more than 10,000 items, making it the largest and an index to both volumes.
Cambodian-English glossary compiled to date. The
definitions are more general and complete than one Volume 1
usually finds in a simple reader glossary, in which 1973 | 507 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-01653-6 | $49.00
definitions are normally context-specific. Volume 2
1973 | 468 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-01671-0 | $45.00
1977 | 336 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-02069-4 | $47.00

Fifteen Modern Polish Short

Learning Irish Stories
Micheal O’Siadhail An Annotated Reader and a Glossary
This text is the standard introductory course to the Irish Alexander M. Schenker
language. It provides a sound approach to the ordinary
language learner and at the same time furnishes the Mr. Schenker now supplements his Beginning Polish
professional linguist with an authentic description of the with a selection of fifteen unabridged, annotated
spoken language. short stories, each by a different author, to be used in
beginning and intermediate college courses in Polish.
1995 | 320 pp. | Paper | ISBN-13: 978-0-300-06462-9 | $30.00 Problems that might be encountered by the reader–
Forthcoming: Paper w/ online media, 9780300236675 whether of a linguistic or cultural nature–are explained
in footnotes, and a glossary at the end of the book
contains all of the words occurring in the stories. There
is no other reader dealing exclusively with twentieth-
century Polish prose.
1970 | 200 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-01326-9 | $24.00

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METHODOLOGY

On Being a Language Teacher A Philosophy of Second

A Personal and Practical Guide to Success Language Acquisition
Norma López-Burton and Denise Minor Marysia Johnson
This book provides an innovative, personal approach to In this provocative book, Marysia Johnson proposes a new
second language teaching. Through illustrative personal model of second language acquisition (SLA)—a model
anecdotes, this text guides new and aspiring language that shifts the focus from language competence (the ability
teachers through key pedagogical strategies while to pass a language exam) to language performance (using
encouraging productive reflection by classroom veterans. language competently in real-life contexts).
Its accessible style and affordability give it the flexibility
to serve as either a primary or supplemental text for 2003 | 224 pp. | 25 b/w illus. | Paper
teaching assistants, students in credential programs, or 978-0-300-10026-6 | $56.00 
undergraduates in applied linguistics courses. Online
videos complement the text by showing an experienced
teacher applying its lessons. In a market dominated by
the dense theoretical approaches to language pedagogy, Twelve American Voices
this text provides an instantly accessible, practical set of An Authentic Listening and Integrated-Skills
teaching tools for educators at all levels.
Textbook
2014 | 408 pp. | 30 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-18689-5 | $45.00
Visit the companion website at yalebooks.com. Maurice Cogan Hauck, with Kenneth MacDougall;
Documentaries by David Isay
Designed for intermediate to advanced students of
Testcraft English, this book presents a series of entertaining radio
documentaries that feature interviews with a culturally rich
A Teacher`s Guide to Writing and Using array of individuals living and working in contemporary
America. The book includes transcripts of the documentaries
Language Test Specifications and exercises as well as online media of the broadcasts, and
Fred Davidson and Brian K. Lynch an instructor’s manual.
This clear and timely book offers language educators a 2001 | 204 pp. | Paper w/ online media | 978-0-300-21444-4 | $35.00
how-to guide for creating language tests that reliably Instructor’s manual available at yalebooks.com.
measure exactly what they are intended to measure.
The authors provide an easy and flexible approach to
language testing and the tools teachers need to develop
tests appropriate to their own instructional settings.
2001 | 160 pp. | 15 charts/graphs | Paper |
978-0-300-09006-2 | $40.00
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Worlds Apart? The Language Demands of

Disability and Foreign Language Learning School
Edited by Tammy Berberi, Elizabeth C. Hamilton, Putting Academic English to the Test
and Ian M. Sutherland
Edited by Alison L. Bailey
The first of its kind, this book offers critical and practical
This edited volume describes an extensive empirical
essays with insights applicable across the language-teaching
base for academic English testing, instruction and
spectrum. Written in English, Worlds Apart? brings
professional development. The chapters comprise
together scholars and teachers from around the world
empirical research by Bailey and colleagues at the
who examine foreign language education from general
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards,
requirements through advanced literature and film courses
Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, and invited
to study abroad, showing how to enable the success of
contributions by practitioners in the fields of language
students with disabilities at every step of the way. Thought-
policy, testing, and instruction. The three additional
provoking chapters explore the nature of language itself,
chapters give the perspectives of a policy-maker at the
the best avenues toward acquiring proficiency, and the
state level, test developers, and practitioners.
lives of disabled people at home and abroad. Worlds Apart?
offers fresh, new perspectives on the inquiries into culture 2006 | 256 pp. | 13 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-10946-7 | $35.00 
and diversity undertaken in the academy today.
2008 | 288 pp. | 14 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-11630-4 | $46.00

Reading Between the Lines

Cultural Globalization and Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacy
Language Education Edited by Peter C. Patrikis
B. Kumaravadivelu
This useful book presents new approaches to teaching
In this thought-provoking book, Kumaravadivelu explores reading in a foreign language. Asserting that reading
the impact of cultural globalization on second- and foreign- is at the heart of learning a foreign language, the
language education. Drawing insights from international contributors—teachers of French, German, Greek,
and interdisciplinary sources, he argues that Western Japanese, and Spanish—document practical methods,
notions of cultural assimilation, cultural pluralism, and including the use of computer technology, for enhancing
cultural hybridity have only a limited and limiting relevance language skills.
to language education in the era of cultural globalization. 2003 | 192 pp. | 2 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-09781-8 | $30.00
2007 | 288 pp. | 8 b/w illus. | Paper | 978-0-300-11110-1 | $58.00

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The Art of Non-Conversation Beyond Methods

A Reexamination of the Validity of the Oral Macrostrategies for Language Teaching
Proficiency Interview B. Kumaravadelu
Marysia Johnson This original book presents ten macrostrategies for
The Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) is a widely accepted teachers based on current knowledge of second language
instrument for assessing second and foreign language and foreign language teaching. These strategies are
ability. This book examines the components of speaking designed to help both beginning and experienced
ability, considers whether the OPI is a valid instrument teachers to self-observe, self-analyze, and self-evaluate
for assessing them, and proposes a new model drawn their teaching practices.
from sociocultural theory to test language proficiency.
2002 | 352 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-09573-9 | $59.00
2001 | 256 pp. | 10 charts/graphs | Paper | 978-0-300-09002-4 | $40.00

Interpreting Communicative
Language Teaching
Contexts and Concerns in Teacher Education
Edited by Sandra J. Savignon
This authoritative collection highlights some of the
best work being done today in communicative language
teaching. Documenting reform initiatives in Japan,
the U.S., Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Europe, the book
offers new perspectives on language teaching for
communicative competence from the points of view of
teachers and teacher educators. 
2002 | 256 pp. | Paper | 978-0-300-09156-4 | $42.00

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AUTHOR INDEX
Abbona-Sneider 12 Dansereau 8 Ling 28 Rifkin 36
Abed 13, 15 Davidson 41 Link 17 Robbins 32
Abetti 6 DeFrancis 32 Liu 25 Rosengrant 36
Agosin 4 Dolidon 7 López-Burton 7, 41 Ross 26
Alhawary 15 Donahue 19 Lubensky 35 Russell 20, 21
Alosh 14 Dostoevsky 35 Ludwigs 18 Sánchez-Blake 5
Asani 38 Dykstra-Pruim 17 Lydgate 6 Savignon 43
Antes 7 Echeruo 37 Lynch 41 Sawan 15
Azmi 16 Eichmanns Maier 18 MacDougall 41 Scharfman 10
Baccouche 16 Estin 9 Mader-Koltay 18 Schenker 40
Bai 26 Fagan 18 Magruder 10 Schleicher 38
Bailey 42 Fasoli 12 Mahota 36 Schniedewind 34
Barnett 8 Fedi 12 Marini-Maio 12 Schroeder 3
Bartalesi-Graf 11 Fischer 16 Melis 12 Seto 22
Beinert 33 Frangieh 13, 17 Meng 25 She 30
Berberi 42 Funcia 3 Mickel 28 Shih-Jiu Hou 29
Berg 8 Furniss 36 Minor 41 Simon 3
Beyer 19 Gehlker 17 Mistacco 9 Slade 11
Bilbao-Henry 4 Golato 9 Montanaro 23-24 St. Onge 8
Björkstén 29 Goldberg 34 Morgan 2 Stilo 38
Blyth 7 Gravina 3 Morris 9 Stimson 30, 32
Bogomolov 35 Green 10 Mujica 4, 5 Susskind 10
Borra 12, 13, 18 Hall 10 Newman 37 Sutherland 42
Boyd 13 Hamilton 42 Nielsen 8 Talattof 38
Brettler 33 Hancock 33 Ning 23-24, 25 Tang 27
Brown 30 Harbaugh 27 Noda 22 Theobald 10
Campbell 7 Harkavy 34 Noe 13 Thông 38
Capretz 6 Hauck 41 Nowakowska Stycos 5 Titus 35
Carballal 2 Herron 9 Nummikoski 35 Tolman 3
Mack 3 Hirsch 10 Núñez Méndez 2 Torres 3, 5
Caws 9, 10 Ho 31 O’Brien 18 Tschudi 23-24
Chao 22 Hoffer 33 O´Neil 5 Wang 25, 29, 30
Chaplin 22 Honigmann 17 O’Siadhail 40 Wheatley 26
Chang 25 Hsia 32 Oliver 36 Wong 30
Chase 1 Hsu 30 Orr-Stav 33 Wright 33
Chen 27 Huang 28, 30 Pablos-Ortega 3 Yatsenko 36
Chia-yee 31 Huffman 39, 40 Patrikis 42 Yao 29
Chou 29 Hussein 16 Pausini 12, 13 Yeu 33
Chouairi 15 Hyder 38 Perini 11 Yin 26
Christ 17 Itomitsu 22 Perini 11 Younes 16
Clark 14 Jaen-Portillo 3 Pfrehm 10, 18 Yuan 27
Claxton 21 Johnson 41, 43 Piñar 4 Zhang 25
Clinton 38 Jorden 22 Pinto 3 Zilkha 34
Cloonan Cortez de Andersen 2 Kagan 36 Proum 39 Zvi 33
Cohen 27 Katz 7 Ramos 3
Colligan-Taylor 22 Keller 20, 21 Redmann 17
Coria-Sánchez 3, 5 Kittel 33 Redonnet 8
Corrigan 19 Kok 28 Reymundi 3
Cotton 3 Kumaravadivelu 42, 43 Ribas Groeger 2
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