language memoirs

1.
Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language
Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language 3.11 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World
All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World 3.84 avg rating — 404 ratings
3.
French Lessons: A Memoir
French Lessons: A Memoir 3.68 avg rating — 902 ratings
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In Other Words
In Other Words 3.74 avg rating — 15,348 ratings
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Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language 3.63 avg rating — 2,186 ratings
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When in French: Love in a Second Language
When in French: Love in a Second Language 3.51 avg rating — 3,605 ratings
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La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language 3.77 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
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On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language 3.61 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart
Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart 3.94 avg rating — 1,753 ratings
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Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey 3.85 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Language Crossings: Negotiating the Self in a Multicultural World (Language and Literacy Series)
Language Crossings: Negotiating the Self in a Multicultural World (Language and Literacy Series) 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
by: Yiyun Li
3.72 avg rating — 2,501 ratings
13.
The Philosopher's Demise: Learning to Speak French
The Philosopher's Demise: Learning to Speak French 3.62 avg rating — 45 ratings
13.
The Interpreter
The Interpreter 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Mother Tongue: My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish
Mother Tongue: My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish 3.72 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Language Crossings: Negotiating the Self in a Multicultural World (Language & Literacy Series)
Language Crossings: Negotiating the Self in a Multicultural World (Language & Literacy Series) 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Fifty Sounds
Fifty Sounds 4.18 avg rating — 960 ratings
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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood 3.75 avg rating — 1,642 ratings
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Onna Rashiku (Like A Woman): The Diary of a Language Learner in Japan
Onna Rashiku (Like A Woman): The Diary of a Language Learner in Japan 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Amo, Amas, Amat...and All That: How to Become a Latin Lover
Amo, Amas, Amat...and All That: How to Become a Latin Lover 3.32 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language 3.86 avg rating — 2,291 ratings
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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez 3.33 avg rating — 3,563 ratings
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Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin
Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin
by: Ann Patty
3.42 avg rating — 457 ratings
24.
Native Speaker
Native Speaker 3.75 avg rating — 8,816 ratings
25.
Mother Tongue (Passport Books, #3)
Mother Tongue (Passport Books, #3) 3.32 avg rating — 320 ratings
26.
English
English
by: Wang Gang
3.42 avg rating — 428 ratings
27.
The Multilingual Self
The Multilingual Self 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
28.
The Languages of Love
The Languages of Love 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
29.
Dreams of My Russian Summers
Dreams of My Russian Summers 3.82 avg rating — 4,136 ratings
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The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language
The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
31.
Ways to Disappear
Ways to Disappear 3.44 avg rating — 4,625 ratings
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Buying a Piece of Paris
Buying a Piece of Paris 3.19 avg rating — 289 ratings