Life with the Taylors [antikvár]

At a time like the present, when the necessity for mutual understanding has imposed itself forc.efully upon our consciousness, this book should serve as an effective contribution toward leveling one of the most formidable barriers to such understanding, namely, the language barrier. This book has set as its aim the teaching of American English of common everyday usage. The vocabularies, idiomatic expressions, and exercises are directed toward the realization of this objective. The student is not only introduced to a new language experience but is alsó brought into intimate touch with the psychology, customs, and atmosphere of life in the United States. The chapters in this book give a picture of an average middleclass family at work and at play, experiencing its little day-to-day joys and struggling with its day-to-day problems. Here we have life at school and at the university, at Thanksgiving and at Christmas, at the dinner table and at the office - so much so, indeed, that anyone who is preparing to go to the United States will, by his use of this book, build up a certain orientation toward the new mode of living he is to face. When he has mastered its contents, he may feel sure that he will have no great difficulty in understanding others or making himself understood upon his arrival in the United States. Jacob Canter Cultural Affairs Officer Embassy of the United States of America Habana, Cuba