Ergebnis für "Briefe" in Sprache, Vokabeln & Grammatik

Deutsche Grammatik: Bei dem Begriff verdrehen Sprachschüler genervt die Augen und auch Muttersprachler seufzen tief. Schwierig, komplex, mehr Ausnahmen als Regeln und sowieso ganz anders als die restlichen europäischen Sprachen – oder doch nicht? Für all die Verbform-Verzweifelten und Artikel-Verwirrten kommt hier eine gute Nachricht: Die deutsche Grammatik ist viel besser als ihr Ruf und zwar verständlich, klar geregelt und für jeden kinderleicht erlernbar! Also schnappen Sie sich dieses Hörbuch und polieren Sie Ihr Deutsch im Handumdrehen auf Hochglanz!

Almost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene. Whether they express anger or exhilaration, are meant to insult or to commend, swear words perform a crucial role in language. But swearing is also a uniquely well-suited lens through which to look at history, offering a fascinating record of what people care about on the deepest levels of a culture - what's divine, what's terrifying, and what's taboo.

The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion. When he died at the age of 25, having taken a battering from the conservative press, few critics imagined he would be considered one of the great English poets 200 years later, though he himself had an inkling. In this brief life, Lucasta Miller takes Keats' best-known poems - the ones you are most likely to have read - and excavates their backstories.

From the critically acclaimed Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin, comes a paean to the power of language, and a direct address to the artistic, professional and philosophical concerns that challenge and sometimes torment an author. Comprising fifty-two short prose pieces, Letters to a Young Writer ranges from practical matters of authorship, such as finding an agent, the pros and cons of creative writing degrees and handling bad reviews

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll—with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong—there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are. There must be some good ones, right?