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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6364 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 13 21 March 2011 at 4:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm going to Taipei soon. Can anyone recommend any good bookstores? Stores with good language sections of course but also any large bookstores with a good selection of native materials.
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| Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6569 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, Hungarian*, Mandarin, EnglishC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese | Message 2 of 13 21 March 2011 at 4:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Eric,
I'm not too familiar with bookstores that are exclusively language oriented, but Eslite bookstores (誠品書店) are very big and have big language sections as well. The biggest one that I know of is near the Taipei 101. (get off at 台北市政府 station and ask for 誠品書店). I would recommend going to the Learning English for Chinese section and try to look for those 10 000+ English phrase books and use them the other way around. They are a gold mine. Edited by Vlad on 21 March 2011 at 4:55am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6364 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 13 21 March 2011 at 6:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Sounds great, Vlad. Thanks for the help.
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| etracher Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5319 days ago 92 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Modern Hebrew, Russian, Latvian | Message 4 of 13 21 March 2011 at 7:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Have you seen this by any chance?
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| Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6569 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, Hungarian*, Mandarin, EnglishC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese | Message 5 of 13 21 March 2011 at 7:36am | IP Logged | ||
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Etracher,
Yep, that is the one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ichiro Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6194 days ago 111 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, French Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Malay | Message 6 of 13 25 March 2011 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm off there too very shortly, and quite excited about it.
Can you get the Nicholas Bodman Taiwanese book at this monster shop, or the Maryknoll course? Or do you have to go to the Maryknoll institute itself for their books? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6364 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 13 26 March 2011 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I didn't see any books on Taiwanese in English. I saw a section on Hakka but didn't look carefully at it.
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| Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6687 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese | Message 8 of 13 27 March 2011 at 2:03am | IP Logged | ||
The Bodman Taiwanese book is so long out of print that you can only buy it second-hand. The best resource for that is the Internet. You can only get the Maryknoll books from Maryknoll itself, but there's a branch located in Taipei if you want to go. The address is on their website. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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