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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2393 of 3737 14 June 2012 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | ||
A nice novel in one of my target languages does. And sometimes it's like a book and crosswords puzzle in one volume :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2394 of 3737 14 June 2012 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | ||
This reminds me of a play by Amélie Nothomb I finished a few days ago. The play effectively asks the question whether, during a war where you're freezing cold and have no heating resources bar a library, whether you would burn the books to keep warm (and which ones you'd burn first). 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4677 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 2395 of 3737 14 June 2012 at 4:24pm | IP Logged | ||
I'd say she's going further by implying that even out of war time these books could be burnt without remorse! By the way, I really love this author, and considering the shortness of her books, I'm sure they make very pleasant readings for learners of French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4827 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2396 of 3737 14 June 2012 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | ||
:-) I would carefully stack all the books from a complete set of shelves safely out of the way somewhere. Then smash the shelves as well as I could to burnable-sized pieces, and use those :-) Edited by montmorency on 14 June 2012 at 9:24pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 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 2397 of 3737 15 June 2012 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | ||
I wonder how long burning Amélie Nothomb could keep me warm. 3 persons have 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 2398 of 3737 15 June 2012 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you're waiting for your exam and instead of revising you read in Italian.
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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5531 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2399 of 3737 15 June 2012 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you take a "break" from French the day before the DELF exam, and still wind up
getting in 3 or 4 hours anyway, thanks to MC Solaar in the car, huge stacks of interesting French books all over the place, a whole bunch of acquaintances that want to wish you good luck in French, and so on. Oh, and when you download the 200-character preview of Kanjis dans la tête, the French version of Hesig, because it's not technically studying French. And during the "rest" day afterward, you're staring at the sales copy for Assimil : L'Égyptien hiéroglyphique with your wife, because seriously, it's just too cool. When you're OK mentioning all this on HTLAL, because nobody around here is going to stage an intervention. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 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 2400 of 3737 16 June 2012 at 10:48am | IP Logged | ||
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When you buy a book about Carcassonne pas en français ou espagnol ou anglais, mais en catalan et en russe - et vous déplore vivement qu'il n'existe pas en ancien français et occitan aussi.
EDIT: When you wrote the thing above and didn't even notice that you inadvertently had slid into French. I had to read EMK's post below to notice it. Edited by Iversen on 18 June 2012 at 5:17am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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