The Best Books About Language Learning & Linguistics

Lindsay is back on the Fluent Show today and we're talking about the best books about languages and linguistics.

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We discussed the following books - all linked below on amazon.com and on hive.co.uk.

Popular Science

• David Crystal’s ANYTHING, out of which we discussed
  • Encyclopedia of Language
  • You say Potato
  • Spell it out
• Becoming Fluent by Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts
• Lingo and Babel by Gaston Dorren
• Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

Academic Books

• Teaching and Researching: Motivation by Zóltan Dörnyei and Ema Ushioda
• An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching by Keith Johnson

Guide/Entertainment

• Tingo by Adam Jacot de Boinot
• Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner
• How to Speak Any Language Fluently by Alex Rawlings
• Fluent in 3 Months by Benny Lewis
• PLUG: [Oh hey, I wrote some too!](www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/boxset)

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