QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5856 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 1 of 3 14 June 2012 at 4:01pm | IP Logged |
Has anyone used this set of vocabulary e-books published by T & P books? They include
some very rare languages such as Belorussian and Chechen. Aimed at English speakers, it
is a nice collection of vocabulary books, especially for those rare languages.
I have downloaded the trail version of the Russian , Belorussian and Ukrainian books.
Here are some of the observations:
1) The thematic topics are parallel across the three books. There you find the same
topic introduced under the same chapter number. The words introduced are exactly the
same in English.
2) The books do introduce the phonetics of the languages and they have marked the
stress of each word. However, the phonetics are introduced using a simplified IPA
symbols which may not the real sound exactly. This is especially significant in Russian
for the soft consonants.
3) There are 4 types of books for each language: 3000, 5000, 7000 and 9000 words books.
Here is the link to the site:
http://www.tpbooks.com/
I hope you find this set of books useful.
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QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5856 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 2 of 3 15 June 2012 at 5:21pm | IP Logged |
Some information regarding the website:
Although the website states that 36 languages are available, only 20 languages can be
directly accessed from the website and download the books. They are: Armenian,
Azerbaijani, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Estonian, French, Georgian, German,
Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish,
Ukrainian and Uzbek.
I think the reason for this arrangement is that this site is pretty new and not all
books except the first 20 languages are ready for download.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 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 3 of 3 15 June 2012 at 10:42pm | IP Logged |
I have the Danish 9000 one and I love it. The only downside is that it's native-target only, so you can't use it for looking up foreign words.
It appears to be a Russian company, aww. Explains why they're so widely available in Russia (and I'm always tempted to buy one :D)
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