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How to Become a Polyglot by D. Spivak | ||
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| rekenavri Pentaglot Newbie Belarus Joined 5703 days ago 14 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English, Belarusian, Russian*, Polish, Spanish Studies: French, German | Message 57 of 73 16 September 2008 at 8:23am | IP Logged | ||
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It's an excellent book, but of course, not the only good about polyglottery published in Russian (the works by Kato Lomb where published as well in the middle of 70th).
The only specification is that it was published in 1989 and now the looking for reading material becomes very easy - just go to Internet and download some articles. And the forums provide you as much informal speech as you want. And of course no one book about polyglottery can replace your guide-books and dictionaries. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6062 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 58 of 73 05 October 2008 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just bumping this up because it is so good :)
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| Makrasiroutioun Quadrilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Canada infowars.com Joined 5896 days ago 210 posts - 236 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Armenian*, Romanian*, Latin, German, Italian Studies: Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 59 of 73 10 October 2008 at 8:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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William Camden, thanks for bumping this thread. I read the whole thing and I feel very much rewarded because of it!
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| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5689 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 60 of 73 10 October 2008 at 8:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Anyone know where one could get a copy of this book? Yes, I know it's available online. For extensive reading though--say, more than a page or two--I need a book in my hands.
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| Makrasiroutioun Quadrilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Canada infowars.com Joined 5896 days ago 210 posts - 236 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Armenian*, Romanian*, Latin, German, Italian Studies: Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 61 of 73 10 October 2008 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's the second blog post on this site: http://sadykov.org/library/#p14347-7
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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5824 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 62 of 73 11 October 2008 at 5:40am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks a lot, the book is really interesting. (Shouldn't this kind of thing be pinned to stay always on top??) [edit] He seems to simplify certain things a bit too much in parts of his book. In "Chapter 2 - How to choose a language", pg 22 for example: The first language family is that of the Indo-European languages, whose name comes from the fact that languages of this group spread over the whole territory of India and Europe. Russian is part of this language family, giving a key to all Slavic languages, and also closely related to other similar languages - German, English, but also French, Spanish and Portuguese. We put English in the middle because it is related to German, however, because of historical reasons up to 45% of the vocabulary in common English texts comes from French words. As for the mutual intelligibility between the Spanish and Portuguese people, it is neither less nor more than that between Russians and Bulgarians, if each person is using his own language. I think the sentences in bold are overly optimistic ;p. I've seen Spanish and Portuguese people communicate and they really manage to understand each other, maybe just a bit slowly (whereas Bulgarian-Russian involves a lot of gesturing....) Edited by Sennin on 11 October 2008 at 6:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5689 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 63 of 73 11 October 2008 at 12:00pm | IP Logged | ||
I meant a physical copy of the book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kealist Senior Member United States kealist.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6026 days ago 111 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Uyghur, Mandarin, Shanghainese | Message 64 of 73 18 October 2008 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | ||
Not that it's super important, but not looking at the Russian, I would assume he means something to the effect of "Having mastered the given portion, continue with the next portion of the current text (the next 3-4 sentences) or move on to the next text." Thank you for the translation of this, BTW. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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