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Alphabet Alliteration Bilingual Apache English

Name: Alphabet Alliteration Bilingual Apache English
Author: Adele marie Crouch
ISBN: 9781478343639

by Adele Marie Crouch, Adele Marie Crouch (Illustrator), Beverly Malone (Translator)

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Overview

Are you ready for a new way to learn the alphabet? This isn’t your average A B C’s. Those of you who remember, “She sells seashells by the seashore”, will enjoy this book immensely. A twist has been added to the basic “A is for apple” that will make learning the alphabet crazy fun. Alliteration has been used for each letter of the alphabet. Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words.
According to UNESCO Endangered Languages it is estimated that, if nothing is done, half of 6000 plus languages spoken today will disappear by the end of this century. With the disappearance of unwritten and undocumented languages, humanity would lose not only a cultural wealth but also important ancestral knowledge embedded, in particular, in indigenous languages.
A number of these languages belong to the Natives of North America. The White Mountain or Western Apache Tribe consists of approximately 15,000 members, most of which live on a 1.67 million acre reservation in east-central Arizona. In this land their ancestors learned to be Ndee – The People.
In addition to this group, there are the following Apache nations: The Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarrilla, Lipan, and Kiowa-Apache peoples. Though there are different languages, history, and culture, they are also related to each other.
Creations by Crouch is making an attempt to produce bilingual books that will not only assist people in learning the language of their choice, but also to preserve (in some small way) languages that are in danger of becoming extinct. I was fortunate to find a native speaker from the White Mountain Apache Culture Center who was kind enough to translate this book for all of you.
It is not uncommon to find words in your language or the language the book is being translated into that do not translate. This was the case in this book. There are no words for animals not of the Apache homeland and some concepts/ideas do not exist in their language. Where there is no translation it is noted throughout the book.
Thank you for your purchase and I hope you find the book enjoyable.
Adele M. Crouch

About the Author, Adele marie Crouch

“Alphabet Alliteration” is a new twist on an old subject, learning the English alphabet. “How The Fox Got His Color” and “Where Hummingbirds Come From” are picture books for children ages 3 - 6 years of age. “The Dance of The Caterpillars”, a lesson in prepositions is designed for 2nd grade students. "The Gnomes of Knot-Hole Manor" is a chapter book targeting 3rd graders. It teaches words with silent letters and words that sound the same but are spelled differently.

"Catherine's Travels" is an historic novel that takes place in Missouri during the 1800's. Catherine and her family flee war torn Austria seeking a new life in America. Disaster strikes and Catherine finds herself alone in the wilderness.

"Catherine's Travels Book 2 ~ Lawson's Search" After Lawson's beautiful wife, Catherine, is kidnapped he embarks on a search that will take him across the United States, over the Rocky Mountains and into the land of the Navajo. Catherine will take a terrifying, yet rewarding journey with her husband's starch enemy. Blue Eyes goes on a vision quest that will change his life forever.

Adele is an artist as well as a published author. Her books are currently available on the internet (Amazon and Barnes and Noble), through her web site (http://www.creationsbycrouch.com ), and on Kindle and Nook

Creations by Crouch is making an attempt to produce bilingual books that will not only assist people in learning the language of their choice, but also to preserve (in some small way) languages that are in danger of becoming extinct. With that in mind, Adele is always on the lookout for translators of new and endangered languages. Please feel free to contact Adele if you are a native speaker of any Native American languages.

Adele’s children’s books have become popular with English as a second language students and foreign language students all over the world and are on the top 10 list of ESL study material on Amazon. Her website is filled with study material to help people study foreign languages. It includes - vocabulary lists, MP3 files, and even has a list of the questions you need to know to pass the US citizenship exam. All of this is free to the viewer. See: www.creationsbycrouch.com
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