by Anneliese A. Singh
★★★
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The parts I appreciated touch on the experiences of children and grandchildren of immigrants in Europe. The socialisation of dehumanisation—with a quick sampling in racist children’s songs, the German version of rock-paper-scissors (if you point it out to them they say, ‘What? That’s what Chinese sounds like’), television … Read more
I’m really into well-formatted language-learning textbooks and this is one. It’s not visually busy which blights many modern textbooks, it’s colour-coded sensibly so that pertinent information is accessible at a glance, and the exercises are helpfully reinforcing.