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Percival Leigh - Comic English Grammar

This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that there is quite a dated feel about this little grammar as the author,...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 38 minutes

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Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2.

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Aesop - Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2.

A celebration of all the wonderful dialects and accents found within the Librivox community! The goal being to record a 'phonetically relevant' text by as many volunteers as possible, and make this dialect/accent...

Bill Mosley and 19 more 24 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Cuey-na-Gael - Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language

Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that he would learn the Dutch language within a fortnight. On his return, he has to...

Anna Simon 4 hours 59 minutes

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Reference

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M. L. Nesbitt - Grammar-Land

In this charming 1877 book of grammar instruction for children, we are introduced to the nine parts of speech and learn about the rules that govern them in Grammar-Land. «Judge Grammar is far mightier than any Fairy...

Kara Shallenberg 2 hours 45 minutes

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Raphael Kühner - Elementary Greek Grammar

We have followed the Grammars of Kühner, known as his «Large» and «School» Grammars. [...] Omitting the learned dissertations and numerous details of the original, we have endeavored to furnish to the student, in a...

Rapunzelina and 8 more 10 hours 2 minutes

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Humor

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H. P. Nichols - English as She is Wrote

"...Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language. Sections of the work: How she is...

TriciaG 1 hour 23 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Awful German Language (version 2)

This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the...

Kirsten Wever 1 hour 2 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristotle - On Interpretation

Aristotle's On Interpretation (Greek Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or Peri Hermeneias) or De Interpretatione (the Latin title) is the second of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon. On...

Geoffrey Edwards 1 hour 10 minutes

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William Strunk, Jr. - Elements of Style

“The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is...

Nicholas James Bridgewater 1 hour 51 minutes

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Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament

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George Lovell Cary - Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament

A collection of lessons (primarily in grammar) for New Testament Greek (also known as Koine) collected by a professor at Meadville Theological School of Pennsylvania. There are over 80 short lessons, each covering an...

M.White and 4 more 4 hours 32 minutes

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Brief Grammar of the Portuguese Language

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John Casper Branner - Brief Grammar of the Portuguese Language

Dr. Branner was a recognized authority on the geology of South American republics, especially Brazil, having organized and headed the Stanford Expedition to Brazil in 1911, among others. In 1910 he published this...

Leni 6 hours 53 minutes

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Sir Arthur Cotton - Arabic Primer

“Languages”, Sir Arthur Cotton writes, “are usually learnt as if it took a long time to learn the grammar &c., but that to speak with a good pronunciation and expression, and freely, and to catch the words from a...

Nicholas James Bridgewater 4 hours 24 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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