
The Best Books About Language Learning & Linguistics
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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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