Willowgate Press
Title: Cool Things Happen When You Speak a Foreign Language
Author: William B. Gallagher, MD and Christopher J. Gallagher, MD
Publication Date: May, 2008
ISBN: 1-930008-08-2
Price: $14.50
Category: Non-Fiction: Education, Reference: Foreign Language

Why are Americans so bad at languages? Because no one has fired them up, that’s why! Cool Things Happen When You Speak a Foreign Language will do just that. It will fire the reader up to pursue fluency in whatever language he or she might choose. The late William B. Gallagher was a surgeon who devised the method of language instruction described in this book. He spoke nine languages other than English. His son, Christopher J. Gallagher, has perfected the method of instruction devised by his father. Christopher Gallagher can converse in 15 languages other than English. Cool Things Happen When You Speak a Foreign Language starts out with a practical section on learning Spanish and uses that instruction to illustrate how the reader can go on to master any language. Following is an anecdotal, often comic section that describes some of the many experiences the Gallagher family has had, in this and other countries, where the knowledge of languages proved valuable.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

William B. Gallagher, MD spent forty years in the private practice of surgery. Dr. Gallagher devised the method of language instruction described in this book. Christopher J. Gallagher, MD is currently Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Gallagher has written four textbooks on the practice of anesthesia and is the author of a historical novel that chronicles his grandfather’s exploits during World War I. Dr. Gallagher has perfected the method of language instruction devised by his father. He speaks fifteen languages other than English.

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