Multilingual Books August Newsletter

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In this issue:

• Feature Article - English Only - in Singapore?
• Product Reviews - Shinseken Foreign Language Children's Books
• Product News - Harry Potter Line Expands - 42 Languages and More; James Bond in Russian; Top Selling Products
• Featured Site - Free Online Dictionaries
• Language Trivia Contest - Answer correctly and win FREE language products!
• Newsletter Specials - Special offers only for our newsletter subscribers!

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Multilingual Books has recently begun carrying a new line of children's picture books from Shinseken in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Thai, and English. These books are beautifully illustrated in color on high quality stock, great for the home or classroom. This line is unique in our experience because for each language, culturally rich stories such as native folktales are told, and most stories are available in each language. This offers many opportunities such as exposing English-speaking children to stories from other cultures, making culturally appropriate materials available to foreign-speaking children, teaching ESL to young children using familiar stories, and so on. The books vary in size; most are large format. There are dozens of titles such as The King Of Almost-Everything, The Library Cat, and The Spirit Of The Tree. Each title is $19.95.

Links to our Shinseken books can be found above and at our children's page.

We are happy to now offer the phenomenally popular Harry Potter series in 42 languages! Also available - English audio CDs, videos in French or Spanish, and CD-ROMs in French! Harry Potter is rumored to be habit-forming, so don't read one unless you're ready to read them all! Find out more about Harry Potter at our Harry Potter page.

Now get the famous James Bond series by Ian Fleming in Russian! The cold war series that frequently pitted East against West and made hugely popular in film with Sean Connery has now been translated, and fittingly is now in Russian. Each book is hardback and contains more than one Fleming book - included are the following titles: Vol 1: Casino Royale, Live And Let Die, Project Moonraker; Vol 2: Diamonds Are Forever, On Her Majesties Secret Service, Property Of A Lady; Vol 3: You Only Live Twice, The Man With The Golden Gun, Octopussy, The Light That Failed; Vol 4: Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, Operation Fireball; and Vol 5: From Russia With Love, Dr No, The Spy Who Loved Me. Find out more at our Russian page.

Last month's trivia questions and answers:

A little courtesy can go a long way in a foreign country! The following words mean "Please" and "Thank you" - in which languages?

Vær så venlig; Tak - Danish
Por favor; Obrigado - Portuguese
Os gwelwch yn dda; Diolch - Welsh
Pakisuyo; Salamat - Tagalog
Nceda; Enkosi - Xhosa

This month's winners were Paulo Y. Haranaka and Bruce Freedberg. Congratulations!

This month's trivia question:

What language has the largest alphabet? Ideographic written languages such as Chinese are not included.

The answers and the winner will be in our next newsletter. Winner will receive their choice of one Talk Now or World Talk language CD-ROM! No purchase necessary to enter.

E-mail your entry to: info@multilingualbooks.com

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