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Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between...
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In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants "returning" to a country she's never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love...
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"Why must pleasure always have a price? And why must one always pay for sensual delight with the loss of original lightness?"
Amélie is a young language teacher living in Tokyo. When she succumbs to the attentions of her one and only student-the shy, wealthy, and oh-so-Japanese Rinri-the lovers-to-be find themselves swept along by an affair that is as unusual as it is tender. This is a new kind of love story that pits a woman's desire for companionship...
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"Vienna: famous for Mozart, waltzes, and pastry; less famous for Julia, a Swedish transplant who spends her days teaching English to unemployed Austrians and her evenings watching Netflix with her cat or club hopping with a frenemy. An aspiring novelist, Julia's full of ideas for future bestsellers: A writer moves his family to a deserted hotel in the dead of winter and spirals into madness! A homely governess loves a brooding man whose crazy wife...
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Emma Perotti is on trial for murder. The victim was a young Chinese woman named An-Ling Huang, who walked into Emma's ESL classroom some time ago and quickly became a major presence in her life. Emma's husband never completely trusted the girl-but Emma, driven by a long-ago tragedy that haunts her with guilt-embraced her fully, even moving into a loft apartment with her after the couple's marriage started to deteriorate.
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English
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In Dublin, an evening class of Italian language and culture changes the lives of its students. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teacher, an Irish woman who followed a married man to Italy and returned to Ireland on his death. A tale of one woman's gift for helping others. By the author of The Copper Beach.
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"Language teacher Molly Carlisle is furious when she is kidnapped by an impulsive young sheikh and taken to the kingdom of Djalia. Until she meets her abductor's brother, and his commanding charisma sends a shock wave of need through her... King Azrael fights hard to resist the temptation of Molly's bountiful curves, especially when a sandstorm strands them overnight in the desert. To protect her reputation from scandal, Azrael declares them secretly...
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English
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It's 1982, and China has just barely begun to open to the West. When Lu McLean sells all her possessions and leaves Los Angeles to study Mandarin Chinese at the Beijing Language Institute, she imagines a life of serious scholarship and an eventual job as a translator at the United Nations. On the night of her arrival, Lu meets the captivating, Ming, a Chinese teacher at the institute. Still recovering from a failed ten-year relationship, Lu has vowed...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on Amelie Nothomb's bestselling novel, Tokyo Fiancee is a dark romantic comedy that will appeal to fans of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation. The young, pixie-like Amelie is in love with all things Japanese, which prompts her to buy a one-way ticket to Tokyo in order to completely immerse herself in Japanese culture. She offers to work as a French tutor, and soon finds herself enjoying a passionate relationship...
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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This book provides teachers with practical ideas to bring teaching materials to life and get lessons off the page. It covers all four language skills and the language systems. The book also supports teachers to develop awareness of the aims of activities, and contains reflective tasks which consider how the activities enhance learning.
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[Teach Yourself, an imprint of John Murray Press]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Do you want to start teaching a language online, be your own boss and be able to work from anywhere that has a wifi? Do you want to make a difference in the world by using your language skills to integrate people and give them the confidence they need to develop? This timely book covers everything needed to set up a successful online language teaching business, from creating the right mindset, tech and marketing, to designing products and services,...
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[Passion River Films]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After one unassuming Chinese language teacher defected and spoke up against the Chinese government's multi-billion dollar Confucius Institute program, one of Canada's top ten universities and its largest school board found themselves embroiled in a growing global controversy as scholars, parents, and officials question the CI program's political influence and true purpose.
An examination of the Chinese government's multi-billion dollar Confucius...
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