Five Languages Made Simpler: French, Italian, English, Spanich & German Grammer, Vocabulary

This book includes the complete grammar of five languages. Most of the first 83 pages have French and Italian grammar in columns on the left page, and Spanish and German grammar in columns on the right-hand page. English grammar and translations are interspersed throughout the book. The first chapter has many helpful facts in the five languages: written numbers, math, days of the week, months, colors, telephone conversations, the weather, time, how to ask questions, the use of capital letters, negatives, measurements, participles, and dialogue. Many pages have columns of adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and articles, divided by types, in the five languages, side by side. The text explains facts about the particular part of speech, with a separate paragraph for each language. German grammar requires several extra pages of explanations. The author has analyzed and presents in simplified form the various type of pronouns in each language, side by side. A chapter explains how to write nouns in singular, plural, masculine, or feminine forms in each language. Verbs, their moods and tenses, are clearly presented. The author has prepared a separate chapter for each language. Those chapters begin with the full conjugation of regular, irregular, and other verbs, with hints to memorize their endings. The complete grammar is then analyzed, with many facts about verbs, moods and tenses, prepositions, hints on using the language, and more. We learn how to express our opinion, make suggestions, and to express any time in the past, present, or future. Hints on how to pronounce letters and words, compared with English, are given. Headings of food and drinks on a typical menu are analyzed. The author has compiled a list of words that he found to be used most often by native speakers. You can master them and sound more like a native. For fun, try the tongue twisters, speaking aloud, fast. The author has compiled a large group of idioms or slang expressions in each language. You can have fun with them. The chapter for each language ends with typical conversations, grouped by subject. They include: polite sayings, greetings and meetings, questions and using the language, banking, finding the way, letters and the post office, shopping, hair and beauty shops, medical problems, sightseeing, entertainment, emergencies, hotels, eating, and drinking. These conversations will be helpful as a phrase book for those who do not speak the language, as well as a reminder for anyone who is fluent in the language. A few letters are included, business and personal, as guides. The book has a list of more than 800 of the most common verbs in the five languages, in alphabetical English order. A list of more than 1,700 nouns in the five languages are grouped by subject matter. Subjects include: family and relatives; food, drink and eating; housing, travel and transportation; clothes, toilet articles, the body and health; business, finance and law; plants, animals and the outdoors; entertainment and sports; the post office; education and tools. This is perhaps the first book in the world to compare the grammar and vocabulary of five great languages so clearly, in an easy-to-understand side by side form. It will make learning any of the foreign languages easier. Perhaps it will whet the appetite of the reader to learn the other languages, so we can truly become "citizens of the world."