"Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of "great works of literature," but mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies and living off her parents' generous allowance. Adding to her growing sense of inadequacy, her mediocre white boyfriend, Adam, has successfully leveraged his savant-level aptitude for languages into an enviable career. But when Adam learns to speak Urdu practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his secret. Adam...

"We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But this isn’t the case. When we look closely, we find that many basic concepts are not universal, and that speakers of different languages literally see and think about the world differently. Caleb Everett takes readers around the globe, explaining what linguistic diversity tells us about human culture, overturning conventional...

Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou is Seiren Private Academy's "solitary princess." She's a half-Russian beauty with silver hair, at the top of her class, student council accountant, and... completely unapproachable. For some reason, she's also taken on the responsibility of reprimanding the slacker who sits next to her in class. Masachika Kuze is constantly frustrating her by falling asleep, forgetting his textbooks, and just being an overall unexemplary student....

Alya and Masachika are trying to figure out the changing nature of their relationship. Meanwhile, the campaign to win the student council election begins in earnest with the first debate. Maybe adversity will help bring these two closer.

Alya and Masachika have some "downtime" to strategize for the closing ceremony. But when Masachika suddenly gets sick, it's a chance for Alya to play nurse. However, it's also an opportunity for Yuki to conduct a sneak attack!

Es el primer d�ia de clase de Dat en un nuevo pa�is. Dat y Ma han hecho una larga traves�ia para llegar aqu�i, pero Dat no sabe hablar el idioma. Para Dat, todo lo que dicen todas las personas a su alrededor, desde el conductor del autob�us escolar hasta sus nuevos compa�neros de clase, suena a blablabl�a. �C�omo har�a Dat nuevos amigos sin poder hacerse entender? Por suerte, en la clase de Dat, hay una compa�nera muy amigable...

"Humans' use of language is one of our distinguishing features. Language allows us to communicate what we think, what we want, what we feel, and what we have learned. Some 100,000 years ago, humans began speaking. Since then, we have developed nearly 7000 languages. Languages are living things; they evolve and change over time. Discover fascinating facts about communication in all its forms, from around the world and over time."

"Can you guess what I am? I have been around a very, very long time. You hardly knew me as a baby, but now you cannot get me out of your head. There are thousands of me, all over the globe, and some of those forms are disappearing. I can connect you to the past, present, and future. Who am I—and why am I so important to humanity?"--