Penguin Targets Nonnative Readers

摘要

Say you're a professional or business-person who relocated to the United States. Or you're a student who came to the this country to study. Or you live outside the United States but deal with Americans. You're reasonably fluent in English, but you want to improve your skills. A new tool, PenguinStacks , is for you. Launched in beta this spring in the United States and Brazil, it takes aim at nonnative readers of English. The 120 titles on the site were assessed by New York University (NYU) PhD linguistics' candidates and grouped into three levels, for those "new" to reading English, "comfortable" with reading English, or "seasoned."