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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 217 of 713 23 April 2012 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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At my fave bookstore there are even tables with chairs (like at a café) where you can sit down and browse the books to choose what to buy. you just can't take photos of the pages.
In my case it's also about not needing them. Do I need all 7 HP books in German? not really. Can I reread my fave parts at the bookstore? Sure! Do I want to reread them from the screen? NO :DDD 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6438 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 218 of 713 23 April 2012 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Bookstores, airports, libraries, offices abroad.... there's really no end of places where you can get exposure to the language(s) you're studying, especially if you live in a big city, a multilingual area, or are traveling. It can be surprising how many airplane magazines are essentially parallel texts.
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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5394 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 219 of 713 23 April 2012 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
I totally agree. (Although, my Harry Potter collection is embarrassingly extensive.) You should get an e-reader. Then you can re-read whichever parts you want without having to go out. =) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4687 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 220 of 713 23 April 2012 at 5:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'm getting anxious awaiting the release of the German and French HP eBooks, and also not knowing which of the less popular languages will be available in the US eventually. Amazingly, until recently when I started hunting down used copies in Dutch, the only non-English volume I had was the Irish one, which I can't even read. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 221 of 713 23 April 2012 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My mum has an e-reader :D I've used it and it's fine for normal reading but not for reading randomly and rereading your fave parts:) Well, there are e-readers where you can flip the pages like in a real book, but idk...
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| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4623 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 222 of 713 23 April 2012 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I love my kindle. It was a bit of a hassle to get it as I'm in Australia, but now they're sold in store here. While
it's not the best for randomly reading favourite parts, I've got so many passages of books highlighted, which means they show up in a separate document. That said, i'm not so sure that it is the best for TL reading. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4864 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 223 of 713 23 April 2012 at 7:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This is strictly unofficial, but...
I've added for myself a personal challenge in addition to the Super Challenge: To write 100 brief stories or essays on any subject (100 to 200 words each. Somewhere around 1 notebook page handwritten.) and have them corrected on Lang-8. (And, for the sake of fairness, to correct at least that many English postings by other Lang-8 users.) That's not a whole lot of writing, of course, so it's not a particularly "super" challenge, but writing in my TL is something I really should be doing, and I haven't done very much at all up till now. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4623 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 224 of 713 23 April 2012 at 7:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Fiziwig that's a great idea. I'm logging my superchallenge, and to an
extent, my learning on a blog and plan to write little things in tendue on there. But putting them on lang8 is a good idea. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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