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| Dtmon Newbie United States Joined 3584 days ago 6 posts - 9 votes Studies: Georgian, English* | Message 1 of 7 08 February 2015 at 2:25am | IP Logged |
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I am curious to see what are some really good materials for obscure languages. Doesn't matter what language. Edited by Dtmon on 08 February 2015 at 2:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 2 of 7 08 February 2015 at 1:13pm | IP Logged |
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If you consider Finnish obscure, then let me recommend the German-based Langenscheidt textbook.
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| Kc2012 Diglot Groupie South Africa Joined 4473 days ago 44 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans Studies: Dutch, Mandarin, Russian | Message 3 of 7 08 February 2015 at 3:03pm | IP Logged |
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There are a lot of FSI/DLI courses for 'obscure' languages.. Edited by Kc2012 on 08 February 2015 at 3:03pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 4052 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes Studies: German | Message 4 of 7 09 February 2015 at 7:43pm | IP Logged |
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Recently, "alang" initiated a discussion thread on Dunwoody Press who were recognised as being a publisher of material on obscure languages. It seems that they have gone out of business.
I found three online bookstores whose search features yielded a listing of materials by this publisher: Bay Foreign Language Books Schoenhof's Foreign Books Alibris I suspect that, in order to locate the obscure language language materials on other booksellers websites, including those of university websites, you would have to conduct your search by specific language. To this extent, if you were to identify the specific languages that are of interest to you, it is likely that other members will provide you with a list of sources. The Indiana University website Recorded Materials Archive contains FREE audio roundings to accompany numerous texts which can often be purchased through online booksellers. Regrettably, some of their materials are available only to registered students. The JLU / DLI archives website contains some very intersting material for a variety of languages. As mentioned above, the FSI Language Courses website contains a wide choice of excellent material. Finally, the University of Michigan Language Resource Center online bookstore also has some interesting offerings. That's it, I'm all tapped out! Edited by Speakeasy on 09 February 2015 at 8:19pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4099 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 5 of 7 09 February 2015 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know if it's good, but the first serious English-language look at Övdalian just came out: Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax. If you want a dictionary or grammar book you'll need to learn Swedish, though. Obscure enough? ;)
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| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 4052 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes Studies: German | Message 6 of 7 12 February 2015 at 5:09am | IP Logged |
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I found these additional references to Dunwoody Press. Odd, that they did not come up on my previous Google Search!
Dunwoody Press: Books by Publisher Barnes & Noble: Dunwoody Press ArchInform: Dunwoody Press 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4668 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 7 of 7 20 February 2015 at 3:39am | IP Logged |
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Obscure languages (like Malayalam, Telugu or Assamese) don't have ''best'' books.
It's hard to find any decent textbook (which is not 100 years old and has accompanying audio with it). They may test your motivation, it's a grammar-book-and-dictionary-only learning approach, with no textbook :) Learn the grammar and the dictionary by heart, and make your own textbook :p That's why famous youtube polyglots don't study them, they're too much of a challenge. In my view, this girl beats all Assimil/Colloquial/TY-using youtube polyglots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc_BYNOpFE8 Edited by Medulin on 20 February 2015 at 3:48am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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