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| simonov Senior Member Portugal Joined 5512 days ago 222 posts - 438 votes  Speaks: English | Message 9 of 27 09 June 2012 at 11:26pm | IP Logged |
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Oh, I forgot to add: I actually have such a study (used to be a living-room), with 2 armchairs by two glass doors going out onto a veranda (with a pergola, covered with bougainvillea). My walls are off-white, six paintings, a photograph of one of my dogs (taken at a dog show years ago). Most of the walls are covered with book shelves, mainly language books, literature, history and geography, and computer related stuff on the shelves by the computer. I've also got a fire-place that I don't use, too smoky, but with a mantel-piece that's very convenient for keepings cards, figurines of mainly ducks and cats, and other knickknacks. Two desks, one normal, one for the computers, lots of drawers full of useful (!) things, more shelves behind and next to the computer table, a chest of drawers between the 2 glass doors with drawers filled with language records, cassettes and now CDs. Sounds like a big room, it's not, but it's amazing what can be achieved with a bit of planning. Oh, I nearly forgot, a basket on the floor, by the chest of drawers, for when I have the dog in with me.
I've got plenty more books, maths and sciences in my bed-room, German literature books in the guest-room, science fiction on shelves in the bath-room. All the English books (literature) are in the common living-room. So, as you can see, I don't go in for bare rooms, they would drive me to distraction: I'd want out of there, fast. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5304 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 10 of 27 09 June 2012 at 11:29pm | IP Logged |
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I see.
I also thought of adding recording equipment so every lesson could be recorded, but also played back through some speakers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4782 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 11 of 27 10 June 2012 at 12:01am | IP Logged |
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Good advice: have your materials close to the place you sit - it motivates to learning. Edited by prz_ on 10 June 2012 at 12:02am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4957 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 12 of 27 10 June 2012 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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As I am single and live alone, I suspect all my rooms are language rooms. I study or use my languages in every location, too.
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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6706 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 13 of 27 10 June 2012 at 12:33am | IP Logged |
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No. But if someone were to do it for me, it would be quite cool to have lots of objects
with labels on them. If you can't swing that I recommend museums. Went to a science museum in Granada lately and it was terrific, labels on everything and an English parallel text in case you can't figure it out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kugel Senior Member United States Joined 6461 days ago 497 posts - 555 votes Speaks: English* | Message 14 of 27 13 June 2012 at 3:51pm | IP Logged |
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If I'm doing a 30-40 min session, then my dinning room table is fine. But for a longer
sessions, then the lighthouse, the beach, an outdoor cafe are better options. When it comes to reciting Assimil lessons by memory, then location doesn't matter. Because language learning is more of a hobby to me, aesthetics is more important than maximizing efficiency in learning more material. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4751 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 15 of 27 13 June 2012 at 5:41pm | IP Logged |
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I think the lesson I'm getting out of this is that people study best where they feel
most comfortable, or most at ease, with most of the things (and maybe people or pets) they need around them. This could be one room in the home, or other rooms at different times, or places outside the home. So not necessarily one physical language room, but a virtual one that we can set up, according to our current need. More down to Earth though, this has made me think a bit more about planning the spaces that I usually use. Edited by montmorency on 14 June 2012 at 7:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6626 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 27 14 June 2012 at 2:28am | IP Logged |
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My living room is full of bookshelves with grammars and dictionaries. But I have to have my stereo somewhere in it too, and I can't afford a room for each language - that would be fun though.
Maybe the OP has a castle (AND read too much about AJATT)? Edited by Iversen on 14 June 2012 at 2:29am 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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