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Around the World: 25 books, 10 languages | ||
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6460 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1 of 13 02 November 2011 at 10:48am | IP Logged | ||
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I have too many unread books and I keep buying more, so my new challenge is to read 25
books representing 25 countries until January 1st, 2012. To make things more interesting, these books will be in 10 different languages, very few of them English or German. Apart from justifying the purchase of more books, I am also hoping to learn more about the world's cultures and to discover authors who are not commonly translated, and of course to improve my reading ability in various languages. My plans in detail: http://www.learnlangs.com/blog Edited by Sprachprofi on 02 November 2011 at 10:48am 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6219 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 2 of 13 02 November 2011 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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WOW! That is impressive. I wish I had half as much time to read as you!! ;-)
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| Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5415 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Korean, Haitian Creole, SpanishC2 Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 13 02 November 2011 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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So YOU'RE the one!
Your website was one of the first ones I saw when I was first getting into Korean. A little browsing turned up another webpage, and now I feel like learning arabic... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6460 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 4 of 13 02 November 2011 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Indeed, I came up with this approach for
learning the Korean script. Now I published a book applying the same approach to the Arabic alphabet. Get it from http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/learn-to-read-ara bic/11256992 or http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/learn-to-read-arabic-%28eb ook%29/17806422 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5252 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 5 of 13 02 November 2011 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | ||
I second that. I love the diversity! Looks like it's going to be a quite interesting project and should be a lot of fun too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5719 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 6 of 13 02 November 2011 at 7:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sounds like a great project. Good luck, Judith. I'd like to be able to read books, magazines, or newspapers in at least 6 languages.
The languages are: French German Spanish Italian Chinese (Mandarin, I assume?) Dutch English Esperanto (Modern?) Greek Latin 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6460 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 7 of 13 03 November 2011 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I already finished the book set in Egypt, which I had started before the challenge, and
the one in Turkey. Now I'm reading the one in Greek and it's much harder because it's excerpts of classic Greek writers. I just published a blog post about how you can make it fun to read in a foreign language: http://www.learnlangs.com/blog/2011/11/03/what-makes-reading -fun/ Michael, I recommend starting with Esperanto; once you're able to read in that language, French, Spanish, Italian and even German will come easier. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5719 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 8 of 13 04 November 2011 at 3:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the suggestion, Judith.
I tried dabbling in Esperanto earlier this year and liked it, but I was thinking about learning more "useful" natlangs before I started conlangs. How long does it take to learn how to read Esperanto? I've seen reading courses for natlangs that take a few hundred hours, and since there is the claim that Esperanto is 4 to 10 times easier, I assume it would be a relatively short time to learn to read Esperanto. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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