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| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5499 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 9 of 16 14 April 2010 at 11:10pm | IP Logged | ||
That would be neat to be able to read the Bible from a selection of different languages at any time. It's all online, but it just doesn't feel the same when reading (to me at least). But on the topic of discussion, no I don't collect dictionaries, I have only the ones I need. One exception, however; is a 1978 Finish-Polish dictionary that I received for free. I have no idea why I took it :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5851 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 16 15 April 2010 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Collection of dictionaries? I have three bookshelves full of dictionaries here of all kinds: bilingual German - L2, bilingual English - L2, bilingual Dutch - L2 and monolingual ones. But I only buy dictionaries, if I need them for a special usage or study target. I would not waste my scarce money on a dictionary, which I wouldn't intend to use. So my purpose is not collecting them, but as a polyglot with many years of language learning behind me, I really needed a lot of dictionaries.
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| OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6854 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French | Message 11 of 16 16 April 2010 at 5:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I collect Chinese dictionaries and character learning books. Also, any time I find a book written in Classical Chinese at a used bookstore, I buy it whether I know what it's about or not. I'll need all the practice I can get. Just yesterday, I found How to Study and Write Chinese Characters by Walter Simon, along with 白蛇傳 and 聊齋誌異.
I also recently bought two copies of 說文解字 (2nd century AD Chinese character dictionary) along with the 康熙字典 (classic Qing Dynasty dictionary covering 47,000 characters) and 古代漢語常用字字典 (Ancient Chinese Frequently Used Character Dictionary), all of which are on the way in the mail. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5338 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 12 of 16 20 April 2010 at 9:36am | IP Logged | ||
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My initial thought at reading the title was - who here doesn't, but after seeing your explanation I am not sure that I can say that I actively collect them. I have just bought a whole lot of them, because I belived at some point in my life that they would be of use to me. The more uncommon ones from my perspective would be my dictionaries of
Latin-Spanish, Slovenian- English, Hebrew-English Turkish-German and my all time favourite: Italian - Napolitano. That last one is actually the biggest dictionary I have, and my interest really got caught when a friend from Naples explained that a lot of the words in Napolitano, which by Italians were considered un-educated, actually originated from ancient Greek. In addition to the dictionaries there are of course some other books that are not part of your average book collection. There are not many of my friends who have the Old Testament in Hebrew, or language courses in Thai, and Hungarian. The Hebrew Old Testament I actually actively used at some point. The language courses were more of a: Hey, they are for sale, and it can be handy to have if I ever want to study those languages :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rebrafi Pentaglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5333 days ago 18 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, Esperanto, French, English Studies: Italian | Message 13 of 16 28 April 2010 at 7:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not only dictionaries, but also grammars and language material of languages that I'm sure i'll never learn. It is relaxing to view and try to read the words (in your own pronounciation, even knowning it isn't the correct.
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| lea Newbie United States Joined 5439 days ago 13 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, German | Message 14 of 16 29 April 2010 at 4:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm definitely guilty of acquiring various foreign language materials. Dictionaries, courses, books in the language, I'll take any of them!
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| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5794 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 15 of 16 29 April 2010 at 6:15am | IP Logged | ||
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I have French and Italian dictionaries on my Kindle, and I use Wiktionary on my computer. What I like about Wiktionary is I can enter a word in any of my languages. I don't have any dead-tree dictionaries.
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5571 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 16 of 16 29 April 2010 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have far, far more dictionaries than one person could ever need. Most of them I bought as a teenager when my interest in languages was budding and I didn't know a good dictionary from a bad one; I just wanted as many languages as I could get my hands on. I have dictionaries for all the major European languages and several Asian languages, plus Swahili and Esperanto.
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