Book Spoken Here

In honor of the EURO 2008 soccer tournament being contested this month – and the timely arrival of a large new collection of books – June at the Brattle will feature a host of New Arrivals in the subjects of Linguistics and Foreign Languages. So while native speakers of various Romance, Germanic, Turkic, and Slavic languages arrive in Switzerland/Austria for the matches, stop in to browse an array of foreign language guides, readers, dictionaries (general as well as technical), and literature now available and continuing to appear around the shop. The more studious among us will be pleased with the myriad studies of all things linguistic, with MIT leading the parade of scholarly presses. Among the titles featured in the West Street window display is an entertainingly exhaustive (that’s all I’ll say) study of English usage and an example of the innovative work that earned Noam Chomsky tenure in the first place.

So stop by this week to say "Ciao" - although if you want to offer congratulations to the new European Champions I’d suggest practicing a few phrases of Dutch, as the Brattle Staff consensus (of one) agrees they are the side to beat.

Oranje boven!