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| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5748 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes  Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 1 of 3 14 July 2009 at 7:17am | IP Logged |
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Does anyone have materials for learning their own language, or have you ever seen them? I know that English speakers in America may see a lot of "Inglés" books around but what about everyone else? For me, I have a grammar book that is in English, a coursebook in Italian, and a phrasebook in Russian. I have gotten these all from people who don't want these books anymore. When people are good friends with me, they call me "the language nerd", and they always tell people to give me their old books and stuff if people ever bring up the subject. My best friend is Russian and he gave me the phrasebook that he used for the first time he came here. He kept his course and his dictionary because he occasionally needs a grammar or a vocabulary reference.
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| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6370 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 3 14 July 2009 at 7:27am | IP Logged |
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I don't own any, but I've looked through some of them. It seems like it could help your L2 by reading it in its "instructive form" if you will. Perhaps in the same way reading a grammar in your L2 about your L2 would help your reading comprehension, but if you're reading in your L2 about your L1, I'd imagine you'd understand more. The best type of these materials, in my opinion, is colloquial/slang books.
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| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5748 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 3 of 3 14 July 2009 at 9:06am | IP Logged |
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It's really fun though to see what people find in their bookshelves. I really enjoy reading about German grammar in English. Granted there are mistakes (probably just honest mistakes not mediocrity in the language), but it is still interesting as I am an absolute grammar nerd.
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