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    Language Is Music
    Language Is Music
    Language Is Music
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    Language Is Music

    By Susanna Zaraysky

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    Language is Music focuses on making learning foreign languages fun, easy and affordable for anyone with a desire to communicate effectively with people around the world. By applying over 100 simple tips to things you already do, such as listening to music or surfing the Web, you can experience the joy of "fluency" in any language without having to study abroad or spend money on private tutors. In Language is Music, Susanna Zaraysky masterfully shares her listening methods so that anyone can have fun learning any language. With over 100 tips and 100 free or low-cost Internet resources, you will learn how to use daily activities, such as watching T.V. or listening to music; conversation partners; and attendance at cultural events to become a masterful speaker of any tongue. "Learning foreign languages is like learning to sing a song or play music," says self-made linguist Susanna Zaraysky and author of Language is Music. Zaraysky has what you might call "an ear" for languages, having used music to successfully learn English, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Ladino and Serbo-Croatian-all with excellent accents.

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    PublisherSusanna Zaraysky
    Release dateDec 13, 2009
    ISBN9780982018958
    Language Is Music
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    Susanna Zaraysky

    Susanna has studied eleven languages (English, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Ladino, Hebrew, Arabic, and Hungarian) and speaks eight of them. Born in the former USSR, Susanna has traveled to over 50 countries. Her goal is to empower people to use music and the media to learn foreign languages.She is the author of the books, Language is Music (El idioma es música in Spanish and Idioma é música in Portuguese) and Travel Happy, Budget Low. The Russian publishing house of Mann, Ivanov and Ferber published the Russian translation of Language is Music, Легкий способ быстро выучить иностранный язык с помощью музыки.Susanna has been featured on CBS, CNN, MTV, the BBC, The Guardian, the Filipino Channel, Yahoo Finance, Fox Business News, Univison, Telefutura, and MSNBC. She has given presentations at the Defense and State Departments of the United States to help diplomats and military personnel learn languages using music.

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    • 5/5
      Very inspirational and motivational for learning methods for a new language.....just when I needed some more ideas and feeling that I´m not getting anywhere....She has a lovely upbeat style, easy to read and good web links....thankyou.....I also enjoyed her personal notes like when she encouraged her little girl to use her few Spanish words to successfully buy a drink on a hot day
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      Fantastic book
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      Lot of resources for new and intermediate language learners

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    Language Is Music - Susanna Zaraysky

    Language is Music

    Over 100 Fun & Easy Tips to Learn Foreign Languages

    Communicate with the world!

    Susanna Zaraysky

    Dedication

    To my parents Rimma and Isak Zaraysky for forcing me to take piano and clarinet lessons, even though I didn’t want to practice every day. It was also very wise that you snuck me into French class in the 7th grade. (My 6th grade teacher didn’t think I was ready for foreign languages and signed a document stating that I should not be allowed to take a foreign language in the 7th grade. My parents changed her answer on the form before submitting it to my new school. We can all laugh now at my 6th grade teacher’s poor judgement of my potential!)

    Dr. Oliver Sacks, , if it weren’t for your book, Musicophilia, I may have never solved my linguistic mystery and this book may have never been written.

    Advance Praise for Language is Music

    "Language is Music is music for the mind! Susanna Zaraysky has crammed this little book with big ideas about how to learn a language, including a multitude of extremely practical tips and applications. As one who has dabbled in many languages and speaks a couple fluently, I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to speak another language."

    - John Perkins, New York Times Bestselling Author of

    Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

    "I love it! I think it will help people who want to learn, and those who are curious about additional language learning. Many people want to learn a language but are frightened, or disappointed by the courses they have taken. Reading Language is Music will encourage them to try again, on their own and with friendly supporters."

    - Dr. Elba Maldonado-Colon, Professor

    Department of Elementary Education Bilingual Program,

    San Jose State University

    "LET IT JUST ROLL OFF YOUR TONGUE!

    With lyrical insight and solid experience, Susanna Zaraysky, author of Language is Music, provides easy steps for learning a language. Gone are the boring, disconnected strategies that most of us remember from school. You’ve never learned a language this quickly and easily. Zaraysky’s methods embody fun, connection, rhythm, and above all...music."

    - Suzanne Lettrick, M.Ed

    Educator and Founder of The Global Education and Action Network

    "Forget dictionaries and phrase books . . . Susanna Zaraysky’s easy-to-use guide to language learning is indispensable for any serious language learner wanting to become fluent—not just conversationally proficient—in another language. Language is Music will teach you how to make language acquisition a part of your daily life, and to recreate the kind of total-immersion environment necessary for fluency. Highly recommended reading for aspiring polyglots. Pick up this book and you too will be all ears!"

    - Justin Liang, speaks Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Marshallese, and intermediate Spanish

    Back in France, I spent many years learning academic English in school. But I progressed much faster when I forced myself to listen to the BBC or not look at the subtitles when watching an American movie. I wish I had Susanna’s book with me then. It’s full of creative ideas and practical tips that are indispensable complements to the traditional methods of learning foreign languages – and it’s coming from someone you can trust, she speaks so many of them!

    - Philippe Levy, French native speaker

    "This book is great. It showed me a new approach to learning a language. I will put the book to good use. As a foreign English speaker, I spent many years at school learning English and did not make much progress. I learned a lot of the tips that I read in this book with time. However if I had read this book earlier, it would have made my life much easier and I would have saved so much time. I am going to apply the tips in Language is Music into learning a third language: Spanish. This time, I am sure I will make huge progress much faster. Not only is Language is Music useful in acquiring a foreign language, but the resources and websites in the book are valuable for someone who wants to travel abroad."

    - Fabien Hsu, French native speaker

    "Language Is Music is a unique tool for language learners. The great amount of insights are matched only by the thorough list of on-line and off-line language learning resources. From the first page, you can feel Susanna’s joyful and refreshing attitude to the world. She is having a lot of fun dealing with the Tower of Babel and she makes it possible for her readership to have fun too. Her travel experiences and love for languages are the paradigm of how anyone can become a citizen of the world."

    - Carmelo Fontana, Co-founder of an incubating online language learning education company

    Language is Music

    Over 100 Fun & Easy Tips to Learn Foreign Languages

    Part of the Create Your World book series

    Copyright © 2009 by Susanna Zaraysky

    Smashwords Edition

    Third Edition (2014)

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except for brief quotations embodied in articles or reviews

    Kaleidomundi

    PO Box 1253

    Cupertino, CA 95015

    USA

    www.createyourworldbooks.com

    Email: info@kaleidomundi.com

    ISBN: 978-0-9820189-9-6

    LCCN: 2008910798

    Cover and Interior Design by Krista Anderson

    Edited by Frank Reuter and Britt Breu

    Typefaces used in this book are credited as follows: Futura, designed by Paul Renner; and Baskerville, designed by John Baskerville

    Create Your World Book Series

    Mission

    To create global citizens who are engaged in the world, passionate about world events and confident international travelers and communicators.

    To empower you to interact and appreciate other cultures and ways of life.

    To give you the skills to travel economically and see the world.

    To teach you how to easily learn foreign languages and have fun.

    Be your own peacemaker!

    Be your own ambassador!

    Create your world!

    Books In This Series

    Travel Happy, Budget Low

    Over 200 Money Saving Tips to See the World

    Language is Music

    Over 100 Fun & Easy Tips to Learn Foreign Languages

    El idioma es música (Spanish)

    Idioma é música (Portuguese)

    Легкий способ быстро выучить иностранный язык с помощью музыки (Russian, December 2013. Published by Mann, Ivanov, Ferber in Russia.)

    Benefits of this Book

    Have fun and advance your foreign language capabilities. Listen to music and the radio, watch TV, attend cultural events, talk to people and enjoy the language learning process. You don’t have to stare all day at verb conjugation charts and get nightmares of your language teacher beating you with a stick because of pronunciation mistakes.

    Cost effective language learning. The free and low cost tips as well as over 90 Internet resources enable to you speak a language without spending a ton of money on plane tickets, tutors and intensive language programs. You don’t have to leave the country or even leave your home.

    Learn faster than from the traditional memorize and regurgitate lessons used in schools and universities.

    The language becomes part of your daily life. The new language is alive and not just a list of vocabulary words.

    Created by a self-made expert. Without expensive tutors or intensive language classes abroad, I

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