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Do you read often in foreign languages? | ||
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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4451 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes  Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 65 of 75 01 September 2012 at 11:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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I read books in English a lot. In Spanish a bit less (harder to get in Poland), but I read Spanish fanfiction. I wouldn't even try reading German books, but if I come across something on the net, I can read it.
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4439 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 66 of 75 06 September 2012 at 3:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
Are there any good Russian-English or Russian-French dictionaries for Kindle? I am hesitant to buy those I've seen because I am uncertain of the quality. I get my e-books through amazon.fr, and they do have a good selection for the bigger (Western) European languages, such as German, Spanish and Italian. However, I have found very few books in Russian, mainly a few classics by Pushkin and Lermontov. Is there an e-book market in Russia? (Don't think there is an amazon.ru yet) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6397 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 67 of 75 06 September 2012 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes, there is a market, but most people download e-books for free;)
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| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6743 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 68 of 75 06 September 2012 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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No idea about the dictionaries.
For buying ebooks, I know of http://www.litres.ru/. I can't guarantee that they will sell abroad, but it's worth a try. You can find free ebooks at http://lib.ru/ and http://lib.aldebaran.ru/. These are not necessarily illegitimate, they seem to have been cooperating with the authors more in recent years. In the US, I only know of http://www.kniga.com/. There must be others. There must be some sites in Europe too, but I don't know of any myself. The major site http://www.ozon.ru/context/ebook/ also carries ebooks. I don't know if they sell them to customers outside Russia, you'd have to try and see or read through their policies. Edited by frenkeld on 07 September 2012 at 4:53pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4659 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 69 of 75 06 September 2012 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It depends on what do you mean by 'reading'. If you think in a 'classic' way - then before our enormous challenge I've hardly ever read in foreign languages, even in English. BUT, if you mean ANYTHING in foreign languages - yes, maybe not daily, but I like to read from time to time something in my target language - usually some interesting articles. +, as a huge fan of music (unfortunately, a passive one) I read the lyrics quite often :)
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4439 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 70 of 75 06 September 2012 at 9:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't want you to recommend pirate sites, but can you point me to some good sites that offer Russian e-books? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6397 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 71 of 75 07 September 2012 at 1:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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My preferred way is usually to google a specific name, maybe along with the words скачать бесплатно:) I mostly download from the sites frenkeld recommended.
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| maraschino912 Newbie Vietnam francis147.wordpress Joined 4284 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Vietnamese* Studies: English, French | Message 72 of 75 07 September 2012 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There are 2 sites I always truth in that Gutenberg.org and Wikisource.org.
Well, it may not have all e-books you want but good for me. I love the old pieces so it no need for me to find it have licensed or not, it no use till now. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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