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Speaking in Tongues

Curious Expressions from Around the World
By Ella Frances Sanders
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Speaking in Tongues by Ella Frances Sanders explores the quirks and peculiarities of language from around the world. Filled with humorous and insightful anecdotes, it delves into how expressions and words reveal different cultures' unique ways of interpreting the human experience. This book celebrates linguistic diversity in a whimsical and enlightening manner.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by the quirks and intricacies of language. With its humorous and artistic exploration of untranslatable words, it offers delightful insights into how different cultures express unique ideas and emotions. If you appreciate charming illustrations and enjoy a light-hearted yet informative read, this book could be a perfect fit for you.

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Speaking in Tongues

Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ironing your head? This book brings the weird, wonderful and surprising nuanced beauty of language to life with over fifty watercolour and ink illustrations.

From the author of the bestselling Lost in Translation, an exquisite illustrated compendium of not quite translatable sayings from across the globe

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From the author of the bestselling Lost in Translation, comes an exquisite illustrated compendium of not quite translatable sayings from across the globe.

Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ironing your head?

Speaking in Tongues brings the weird, wonderful, and surprising nuanced beauty of language to life with over fifty gorgeous watercolour and ink illustrations.

Here you will find the perfect romantic expression, such as the Spanish tu eres mi media naranja, or 'you are the love of my life, my soulmate', and the bizarre, including dancing bears and broken pots, feeding donkeys sponge cake, a head full of crickets, and clouds and radishes. All encourage new ways of thinking about the world around us, and breathe magnificent life into the everyday.

These phrases from across the world are ageless and endlessly enchanting, passed down through generations. Now they are yours.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781910931264

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 September 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Square Peg

Illustration: full colour illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 112

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About the Author

Ella Frances Sanders is a writer out of necessity and an illustrator by accident. She currently lives and works in the city of Bath, UK, without a cat. Her first book, Lost in Translation - An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words is an international bestseller, and her second book The Illustrated Book of Sayings - Curious Expressions from Around the World was published in September 2016. She can be found at ellafrancessanders.com and various other social media places

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