April 06, 2020

The Best Books About Language Learning & Linguistics

1 hour

Lindsay is back on the Fluent Show today and we're talking about the best books about languages and linguistics.

*NOTE: The Fluent Show is now on a podcast break until 6 May, but you can catch up with mini episodes of "Fluent in Isolation" at Patreon.com

We discussed the following books - all linked below on amazon.com and on hive.co.uk.

Popular Science

David Crystal’s ANYTHING, out of which we discussed

Encyclopedia of Language

You say Potato

Spell it out

Becoming Fluent by Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts

Lingo and Babel by Gaston Dorren

Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

Academic Books

Teaching and Researching: Motivation by Zóltan Dörnyei and Ema Ushioda

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching by Keith Johnson

Guide/Entertainment

Tingo by Adam Jacot de Boinot

Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner

How to Speak Any Language Fluently by Alex Rawlings

Fluent in 3 Months by Benny Lewis

PLUG: [Oh hey, I wrote some too!](www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/boxset)

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Links:

David Crystal - Wikipedia
All David Crystal Books on Amazon.co.uk
All David Crystal Books on Amazon.com
Lindsay's Book of 2019 on Youtube
Lindsay's Coronavirus Support page
My Review of Becoming Fluent
Gaston Dorren Books on Hive.co.uk
All Gaston Dorren books on Amazon.com
The Fluent Show: Professor Emoji 👩🏼‍🏫 Stops by to Explain How We Use Language Online 😍 (with Dr Monica Riordan)
Teaching and Researching: Motivation (Applied Linguistics in Action) - Kindle edition by Dörnyei, Zoltán, Ushioda, Ema. Reference Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Teaching and Researching: Motivation on hive.co.uk
An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Keith Johnson on hive.co.uk
Amazon.com: An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching by Keith Johnson
Bilingual Education Expert Marianna du Bosq
Toujours Tingo on hive.co.uk
The Meaning of Tingo on amazon.com
Fluent Guides Box Set — Two guides I wrote to help you learn languages
How to Speak Any Language Fluently by Alex Rawlings on Amazon.com.
How to Speak Any Language Fluently by Alex Rawlings on hive.co.uk
Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner
Fluent in 3 Months by Benny Lewis on hive.co.uk
Fluent in 3 Months by Benny Lewis on amazon.com
terminology - What does a computational linguist actually do? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
All Things Linguistic

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