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| Mashagu Bilingual Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 5786 days ago 18 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, German Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 7 09 February 2009 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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You might be asking yourself at this point "Amazon? What has that got to do with language learning?".
The idea came to me today... I was looking through amazon.de and noticed that it is rather amusing to use as a language tool! The most entertaining way to do so is: 1) Find the amazon of target language 2) choose product type 3) cheapest first (usually there are negative reviews on there somewhere) 4) the products with a single star are worth going for.... 5) read the review! I have come across a few very funny reviews by doing this. You get to have a laugh and learn new vocab (to do with product for example) and expressions used by the public! Enjoy :-) Edited by Mashagu on 10 February 2009 at 1:56am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5799 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 2 of 7 09 February 2009 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sadly, there only seems to be an Amazon for English, French and German.
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| Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5812 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic | Message 3 of 7 10 February 2009 at 12:39am | IP Logged | ||
There's Japanese and Chinese as well: http://www.amazon.co.jp/?%5Fencoding=UTF8&site=amazon&tag=in tl-usfooter-jphome-22 http://www.amazon.cn/?%5Fencoding=UTF8&source=amazon-jpfoote r 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mashagu Bilingual Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 5786 days ago 18 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, German Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 7 10 February 2009 at 1:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de Amazon.fr Amazon.co.jp Amazon.cn Оzon.ru - Russian internet shop Otherwise, there may be equivalents in other languages I don't know about. If you know any, feel free to post them here. Edited by Mashagu on 10 February 2009 at 2:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sammychanforeve Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6059 days ago 43 posts - 51 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese Studies: French | Message 5 of 7 10 February 2009 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I often read the reviews on amazon.co.jp site. This can indeed be interesting reading. The reviews have a relaxed, colloquial tone. A plus is that most of the Japanese reviewers seem to have a good writing style and make few grammatical errors, unlike most of the reviewers on the US site.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6461 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 6 of 7 10 February 2009 at 4:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you very much for the tip! I read some reviews on Chinese Amazon today and I can understand the language quite well. I extracted some new vocabulary, too.
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| Mashagu Bilingual Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 5786 days ago 18 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, German Studies: Japanese | Message 7 of 7 10 February 2009 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | ||
That's great! I'm so glad i could make a contribution ^_^ Masha 1 person has voted this message useful |
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