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| Noe12 Diglot Newbie Argentina noe12.com.ar Joined 6036 days ago 31 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Japanese, Latin, Italian | Message 1 of 10 09 May 2008 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi everyone.
I'm posting here rather than in the books forum because my post is not about a language learning book. I had an idea the other day about books exchange. Maybe someone out there thinks it's a good idea too. The idea would be to exchange a particular book in each person's native language (or the language of the country they live in). It would have to be a book that has been translated to both languages and one that can be easily acquired (otherwise the idea of the exchange would be worthless). What for? Because I think it would be cheaper to buy the book in the country where that language is spoken than buy it over the internet from another country. For example, I was thinking in "The little Prince" (Le petit prince). It's a worldwide known book and can be easily acquired anywhere. And I assume that it's not very expensive. At least a paperback copy of that book here in Argentina is not expensive. So, for example, I would buy "El principito" ("The little prince" in Spanish) and the other person would buy "The little Prince" in their language. And then each of us would send the copy to the other by regular mail. What do you think? Would any of you be up to it? If someone wants to exchange books with me, I would be interested in the following languages: * Japanese * Italian * Portuguese * French * German * Galician * Latin 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chelovek Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6078 days ago 413 posts - 461 votes  5 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 10 09 May 2008 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm pretty sure you can find that book online for free in almost any language.
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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6859 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 3 of 10 09 May 2008 at 9:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here is a multilingual e-book in a few of those languages you wanted.
http://www.odaha.com/littleprince.php?f=English 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| digitlhand Triglot Groupie United States ryanslrblog.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6212 days ago 77 posts - 108 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Swedish Studies: German, Arabic (Written), Japanese, Greek, French | Message 4 of 10 09 May 2008 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like your idea malaka. I'll trade something like the harry potter series with someone for the following
languages: arabic, greek, japanese, russian or German 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Noe12 Diglot Newbie Argentina noe12.com.ar Joined 6036 days ago 31 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Japanese, Latin, Italian | Message 5 of 10 09 May 2008 at 11:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know that some of these books could be found online. But the idea was because I think it's much nicer (and practical) to have the actual book. Besides, I liked the idea of trading something with someone across the world.
Don't you? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Noe12 Diglot Newbie Argentina noe12.com.ar Joined 6036 days ago 31 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Japanese, Latin, Italian | Message 6 of 10 09 May 2008 at 11:35pm | IP Logged | ||
I love Harry Potter! If someone wants to trade, I'm interested too. I already have the English series (I didn't even read the Spanish one, but obviously I can get it here), but I would be interested in any of the HP books in any of the languages I mentioned before. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chelovek Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6078 days ago 413 posts - 461 votes 5 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 7 of 10 10 May 2008 at 4:06am | IP Logged | ||
Haha, uh...don't you think calling random people on a forum "malaka" is a bit inappropriate? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tjw Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6130 days ago 53 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French, Persian | Message 8 of 10 10 May 2008 at 5:56am | IP Logged | ||
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I would be up for this.
I would be after French (Harry Potter would do, unless anybody has anything more exciting), simple German books, or Persian children's books (with vowel marks would be amazing). Sorry - I can only offer English, but I have masses of English books. Edited by tjw on 10 May 2008 at 5:57am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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