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British Phrasebook British Phrasebook


Take a tour of the dialects of Britain

- Slang and colloquial usage
- Avoid embarrassing British-US differences
- Cultural tips, festivals, food and shopping
- Fit in at a football match or follow the cricket
- Scottish Gaelic and Welsh included

Authors: Elizabeth Bartsch-Parker and Roibeard O'Maola
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 0864424841
Published: 1999, 1st edition
Paperback: 304 pages 



Price:   £3.99



Teach Yourself Welsh - CD and Book Pack Teach Yourself Welsh - CD and Book Pack


The aim of Teach Yourself Welsh, is to help you to understand and speak Welsh as it is spoken today.

The course covers the four basic skills - listening and speaking, reading and writing. If you are working on your own, the accompanying recorded material is particularly important as it will provide you with the essential opportunity to listen to Welsh spoken by native speakers and to speak it yourself within a controlled framework.

The coursebook contains 21 thematic units, which are preceded by an alphabet and pronunciation guide, a chart for quick reference, and a map of Wales. A more detailed reference section, the key to the exercises, a Welsh-English vocabulary and an English-Welsh vocabulary are included in the back of the book.

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Educational
Authors: Christine Jones and Julie Brake
ISBN: 0340860499
Published: 2003
Paperback and double CD 



Price:   £26.99



Pocket Modern Welsh Dictionary Pocket Modern Welsh Dictionary


This dictionary gives a unique and invaluable description of today's Welsh, illustrated by examples drawn from a wide range of contemporary sources. It will be of interest and help to native Welsh speakers and to English speakers studying or working in Welsh.

- Clear, uncluttered layout with helpful usage notes explaining points of grammar
- Ideal for school as well as adult learners
- Complex and frequently-used words are explained and translated in special usage boxes, while translation tips throughout the text show how best to deal with differences between Welsh and English
- A full guide to pronunciation
- Glossary of place names

'This is probably the most useful dictionary of modern Welsh available' - Forum for Modern Language Studies

Editor: Gareth King
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198645317
Published: 2000
Paperback: 658 pages, 196 x 129 mm 



Price:   £9.99



Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary


This is the world's bestselling advanced learner's dictionary, recommended by learners of English and their teachers, and used by 30 million people.

- 183,500 British and American words, phrases and meanings, plus 85,000 examples showing how words are used
- 20,000 word origins and 200,000 extra example sentences on the included Compass CD-ROM
- 2,000 new words and meanings, such as offshoring, life coach, sex up, wi-fi
- 5,000 study words used in the sciences, computing, literature, and business
- 700 entries for words from Australia, Canada, East Africa, India, New Zealand, South Africa and West Africa
- 7,000 synonyms and opposites shown
- Illustrations and photographs explain more than 2000 words
- Labelled illustrations show related vocabulary
- 32 colour pages illustrate groups of words such as extreme sports, music etc.
- Colour maps - much appreciated by teachers and students
- 2,600 encyclopedic entries to explain references such as Walter Mitty, Fort Knox, Marie Celeste, Peter Pan, Beacon Hill
- Over 10,000 entries on every aspect of British and American culture on the Compass CD-ROM

Publisher: Oxford
ISBN: 0194316491
Published: 2005, 7th edition
Paperback with Compass CD-ROM 



Price:   £21.50



Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's Dictionary Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's Dictionary


The fourth edition of the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary offers learners of English detailed coverage of today's language. Containing hundreds of new words and thousands of definitions written in simple, natural English, this dictionary is exceptionally easy to use and understand. The examples are invaluable in providing context for words and phrases. Grammatical information and additional information on synonyms, pragmatics and frequency is shown in the Extra Column, making it easily accessible.

New to the fourth edition of the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary is the identification of thousands of set grammatical structures, particularly useful to learners of English. In addition, the edition includes useful illustrations covering a range of topics, and Access to English - a unique supplement containing hundreds of practical phrases helping with important structures in areas such as essay-writing, business correspondence and job applications.

The Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary provides invaluable and detailed guidance on the English language, and is the complete reference tool for learners of English.

Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007158009
Published: 2003, 4th edition
Paperback plus CD-ROM 



Price:   £16.99


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