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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5372 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 1 of 28 09 September 2010 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been testing out my son's iPod to see if I'd want to use that or the iPad to boost my language study. (I'm not the Anki type, though...)
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here understood how Apple organizes its various international stores. For instance, I was searching for the French version of Scrabble and I couldn't find it. Apparently, it's not available in Canada, so it appears I'd need a French account. I also want to get Japanese books and I can only see English books in the bookstore... Will I need to create a Japanese account with a fake address to do so? How does that work? Or does the language set on the iPod determine the results you get (I didn't test that)? Any info on that topic would be greatly appreciated. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5311 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 2 of 28 09 September 2010 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | ||
The option for changing the country is down at the bottom of the main iTunes Store page (Manage > Change Country). You can change the country there, but you'd also need to create a new profile and probably buy vouchers for the French iTunes Store online to purchase apps there. (I haven't tried this yet, since I mostly use free apps and podcasts.) As for Japanese books, if you have an iPod Touch or an iPhone you can get the free Stanza ebook reader and download some Japanese Public Domain books from Feedbooks. Stanza also comes with a desktop application that allows you to convert all kinds of input formats to the epub format. You can also transfer ebooks bought from other stores via WLAN to your Stanza app on your iPod Touch or iPhone. I have it on my iPhone and use it all the time to read books. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5372 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 28 09 September 2010 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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My son had a $0.52 credit, and having a credit prevents you from changing your profile (if I understood correctly).
I really would like to purchase Japanese books from the iPod Touch, if at all possible... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7006 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 28 09 September 2010 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have quite a few books (including Japanese language ones) in pdf format and I use GoodReader for iPad to read them. Edited by patuco on 09 September 2010 at 8:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5372 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 5 of 28 09 September 2010 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Reading them is fine, it's getting them that's the problem!
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7006 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 28 10 September 2010 at 3:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I realise that, but getting them is also easy if you know where to look :) Edited by patuco on 10 September 2010 at 3:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5372 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 7 of 28 10 September 2010 at 3:56am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd Know where to look if it weren't Japanese...
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| kidshomestunner Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6396 days ago 239 posts - 285 votes Speaks: Japanese | Message 8 of 28 10 September 2010 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | ||
How informative... Alex, if you go on Amazon.jp you can use it in English but I think your Japanese would be good enough to use it. I would seriously reccomend the Japan centre that ships stuff to Canada www.japancentre.com You could always ask any Japanese people you know to order them for you. Another site I know of is http://www.nippon-export.com/ which I have never used myself though it looks good. I think changing the Ipod setting would work. I know I pods do Japanese but I don't own one so I can't really comment... Josh Edited by kidshomestunner on 10 September 2010 at 8:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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