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In text that captures the unique rhythms of the original Dick and Jane readers, and in 35 all-new illustrations, a story unfolds in which the ultra-WASPish Dick and Jane - hero and heroine of the classic books for children that generations have used when learning to read - manage to express shades of feeling and nuances of meaning that ordinary English just can't deliver. How? By speaking Yiddish, employing terms that convey an attitude - part plucky self-assertion, part ironic fatalism. When Dick schmoozes, when Jane kvetches, when their children fress noodles at a Chinese restaurant, the clash of cultures produces genuine hilarity...YIDDISH WITH DICK AND JANE tells a simple story: Grandma gets sick and Dick and Jane's sister Sally visits. There are sub-plots about such ethical dilemmas as gift-giving etiquette and marital infidelity. The comedy intensifies in the glossary, which defines (with chutzpah aplenty!) each Yiddish term introduced in the text.

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Book category Books in English Language Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) Language teaching & learning material & coursework

• Full title: Yiddish with Dick and Jane
• Author: Ellis Weiner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 112
• EAN: 9780316159722
• ISBN: 0316159727
• ID: 04052673
• Publisher: LITTLE BROWN BOOKS GROUP
• Weight: 201 g
• Dimensions: 186 × 137 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2005

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