Helpful Books To Learn Languages
50 Ways To Improve Your French
Learn French: The Fast And Fun Way (This book has tons of great worksheets and everything. It’s great for learning French!)
2,001 Most Useful French Words
Say It Right in French: The Easy Way to Pronounce Correctly
Berlitz Hide This French Phrase Book
50 Ways To Improve Your Italian
Berlitz Self-Teacher Italian (Personally, I don’t really care for these types of books, mainly because I don’t the things you learn in the first few chapters. Unless you have a base in the language, I don’t think this book will work for you.)
Learn Italian: The Fast And Fun Way (This book has tons of great worksheets and everything. It’s great for learning Italian!)
Easy Italian Phrase Book: 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use
Correct Your Italian Blunders
50 Ways To Improve Your Spanish
Correct Your Spanish Blunders
Dirty Spanish - Warning: This is really vulgar.
Barron’s Complete Spanish Grammar Review
Making Out in Spanish (I think this title is great. I’ve never read this book, but if you’re looking for slang/everyday Spanish, this seems like a pretty good book.)
Ven Conmigo! Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook: Level 1 (This is the actual workbook I use in my Spanish 1 class. It is great and I love it. If you want to teach yourself Spanish, I highly recommend getting a workbook like this.)
Hide This Spanish Book (This has a lot for a small book. Mainly just some basic phrases, along with some that are more vulgar.)
Hide This Spanish Book for Lovers (The title speaks for itself…)
Mierda! The Real Spanish You Were Never Taught In School
50 Ways To Improve Your German
Dirty German - Warning: This is really vulgar.
Say It Right In German: The Easy Way to Pronounce Correctly
Easy Way to Enlarge Your German Vocabulary
The Tell-Tale Heart - If you want to read in German, this seems like a pretty good book to get.
German-English Visual Dictionary
Scheisse!: The Real German You Were Never Taught In School - I love all these books. They have them in every language (The title means “Shit”). Although it doesn’t have the pronunciations, its still pretty great for the vocabulary it has. It’s a bit vulgar though, but not too bad.
Just Enough Portuguese: How to Get by and Be Easily Understood
Portuguese Verb and Essentials of Grammar
Berlitz Portuguese Phrase Books & Dictionary
51 Portuguese Idioms - Speak Like a Brazilian
Arabic-English Visual Dictionary
The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read and Write It
First 100 Words In Arabic
Learn Arabic: The Fast and Fun Way
Berlitz Concise Dictionary
Essential Kanji: 2,000 Basic Japanese Characters
Colloquial Kansai Japanese: The Dialects and Culture of the Kansai Region
Making Out In Japanese - I just bought this book, and it seems pretty great.
More Making Out In Japanese
First 100 Words In Korean
More Making Out In Korean
Korean For Travelers - I think this might only be a Nook book, which kind of sucks.
Dirty Korean - Warning: This is really vulgar.
Intermediate Korean: Workbook - I’m not sure if this is worth getting because of the price, but it seems like a helpful book
Making Out In Chinese (I think this title is great. I’ve never read this book, but if you’re looking for slang/everyday Chinese, this seems like a pretty good book.)
Mandarin Chinese - English Visual Dictionary
Get Talking Chinese - This book is so great. It’s kind of like a children’s book, but for learning basic Chinese, it’s great.
Hide This Mandarin Chinese Phrase Book
Berlitz Polish Concise Dictionary
Berlitz Polish Phrasebook and Dictionary
Polish: An Essential Grammar
Learn Russian: The Fast and Fun Way
Dermo!: The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used
Barron’s 501 Verbs (comes in French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, English and German)
Note: I love Berlitz and Barron books for learning languages. Most are just reference books for verbs, grammar, or basic phrases instead of textbooks. But once you have a base in the language, they help you improve so much. I highly recommend buying any Berlitz or Barron language books. I love the 50 Ways To Improve Your books. They are the best grammar/vocab/correction language books ever. I use the Spanish one to help teach myself Spanish, and I absolutely love it. And it isn’t very expensive either!
