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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4844 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2297 of 3737 10 May 2012 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you start dabbling in Faroese just three days after you started with Russian!
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| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4582 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2298 of 3737 10 May 2012 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
You know that you are a language nerd when...
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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5395 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2299 of 3737 11 May 2012 at 12:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Get a Kindle. or a Nook. or whatever e-reader they have where you're at. Oops. You are in the states. LOL. You can get a cheap Kindle or Nook for less then $75... lots of Spanish books available. (PM me if you want to know where to find them.) :D Edited by Kerrie on 11 May 2012 at 12:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4582 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2300 of 3737 11 May 2012 at 12:26am | IP Logged | |||||
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Kerrie(or anyone, really), do you know if there are very many good Spanish learning(or
reading practice) books for the Nook(preferably free or cheap. I'm just about broke)? When you place language learning materials before new clothes and even food. Edited by Ismeme Granger on 11 May 2012 at 12:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5051 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2301 of 3737 11 May 2012 at 12:48am | IP Logged | |||||
I have an iPad, but whenever I'm in Moscow, I spend many hours in public transport, and I wouldn't feel safe taking it out in certain parts of the city during late hours. I also have a major problem with dropping expensive electronics. I will look into e-readers, though. They're not as flashy and harder to break, it seems. I think they won't allow me to take that HP5 tome on board. It looks like a weapon! lol 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4582 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2302 of 3737 11 May 2012 at 12:54am | IP Logged | |||||
HP5 as in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix? Yeah, if I weren't such a Potterhead, I'd worry about the size of that book. It's something like 870 pages long, I think. When you can't wait to be proficient enough in Spanish to be able to read the HP series(even though they translated Neville's toad, Trevor, as a turtle. Or was it a tortoise?) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5395 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2303 of 3737 11 May 2012 at 1:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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when you carry around your Kindle with 250 different books on it, in more than a dozen languages. Because who knows what you'll be in the mood for later? 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5051 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2304 of 3737 11 May 2012 at 1:11am | IP Logged | |||||
In Spanish, they seem to use "tortuga" for both turtle and tortoise. We do the same in Russian. This reminded of something... In the third book, there's a part in which Hermione complains after the Transfiguration exam that the teapot she was supposed to turn into a tortoise looks more like a turtle. The Spanish translation switches them around: she complains that her "tortuga" looks more like a "galápago" (tortoise). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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