Beschreibung
This book opens with the first sounds a child hears in their mother's womb and their capacity for quickly learning more than one language. It explores how this capacity has always been a necessary and normal aspect of human behaviour, from the earliest evidence of writing on clay tablets to the role of trade in transmitting words across cultures and continents through families of multilingual merchants. A celebration of the huge linguistic diversity that is open to all of us at birth.
Produktsicherheitsverordnung
Hersteller:
Head of Zeus
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Importeur:
Petersen Buchimport GmbH
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Autorenportrait
Sophie Hardach is the author of three novels, The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages, about Kurdish refugees, Of Love and Other Wars, about pacifists during World War Two, and Confession with Blue Horses, about the repercussions of the division of Germany on the lives of individuals. Also a journalist, she worked as a correspondent for Reuters news agency in Tokyo, Paris and Milan and and has written for a number of publications including the Guardian, BBC Future and The Economist. Her first non-fiction book, Languages Are Good For Us, was published by Head of Zeus in 2021.
