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| ThisIsGina Groupie United Kingdom languageblogbygina.w Joined 5309 days ago 56 posts - 72 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, French | Message 1 of 5 09 May 2010 at 9:52pm | IP Logged |
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I normally buy all my books (and movies, etc) on Amazon. It has never failed me before, except when it comes to foreign languages. Is there an option to search for books in all languages? The only thing I can think of is to use Amazon.es (for Spanish books), but I'm guessing that would make me pay in Euros (I'm English) and would stop me from being able to buy the Spanish books at the same time as any English books.
Is there a way to use Amazon for foreign books? If not, is there a good website I can use to find books in foreign languages? This kind of annoys me when websites just assume that people only speak or care about their native language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| StarcrazyAngel Triglot Groupie China Joined 5990 days ago 47 posts - 61 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 5 15 May 2010 at 10:35am | IP Logged |
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I've bought Italian and Spanish books from amazon.co.uk
What you need to do is: click on books at the top. On the left hand side of the page click languages. On the left hand side of the page scroll down to where it says stores, then click foreign language books. Choose the language you want from the left hand side. Hope that helps 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5435 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 5 15 May 2010 at 11:11am | IP Logged |
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Thanks, StarcrazyAngel! I must change the link to this on my Safari bookmarks. :D
Gina, here is a link: ie=UTF8&node=400537011&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center - banner&pf_rd_r=0G1RCNG3ZM4YG24MC2P3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=4680 63193&pf_rd_i=296387011">http://www. amazon.co.uk/b/ref=amb_link_72216865_7? ie=UTF8&node=400537011&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center - banner&pf_rd_r=0G1RCNG3ZM4YG24MC2P3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=4680 63193&pf_rd_i=296387011 I hope that works! Brian :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6236 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 5 15 May 2010 at 12:19pm | IP Logged |
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Sometimes I found Amazon didn't show the language field (depends on what other filters
you have used). But you can still find the books. If you want specific books translated from English into foreign language, try something like "Harry Potter in Spanish" Also just "Books in Spanish" also produces results. But the elsewhere thing I have found is to generally get the titles of the books from elsewhere, and just check if Amazon has it in stock - This is the best: http://databases.unesco.org/xtrans/xtra-form.shtml You can search for translations into any language from any language. I use this to get a list of books/authors or even to just find the name of specific book in a foreign language Original foreign language bookshops, in the foreign country are also good for these. They are usually more expensive to buy (there is no Amazon.es for example, so I had to look for other places, none of which seemed to be much of discount shops, and also would have charged fortune for shipping to UK), but they are good for finding the name of the books you might want. Another place that sells foreign language books in UK is www.bookdepository.co.uk - they are fantastic, and sometimes even cheaper than Amazon. Browsing is not that great. I certainly find Amazon easier to search for books, but if you know what you want, then Book Depository is a good place to check. I just bought three Spanish books from them. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ThisIsGina Groupie United Kingdom languageblogbygina.w Joined 5309 days ago 56 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, French | Message 5 of 5 15 May 2010 at 12:41pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for your help, everyone :)
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