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Fasulye
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 Message 1 of 21
24 December 2010 at 5:09pm | IP Logged 
Let me make a start, because I have received three language-related Christmas presents:

1. A language-calendar 2011 with exercises in French

2. Prisma Taalbeheersing: Grammatica Nederlands, 256 pages

3. A Dutch language quiz called "Taal Hobbel" (with difficult questions!)

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Edited by Fasulye on 24 December 2010 at 7:48pm

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Arekkusu
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 Message 2 of 21
24 December 2010 at 5:16pm | IP Logged 
I still have a few hours to go before it's gift receiving time here in Canada, but I'd be surprised if I received anything related to languages. You've obviously got good elves around you!
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24 December 2010 at 7:03pm | IP Logged 
At the last year my father gave me a Japanese-Portuguese Dictionary.
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hrhenry
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 Message 4 of 21
24 December 2010 at 7:41pm | IP Logged 
The closest I will probably ever get to a language-related gift is a gift card to Borders or Amazon.com.

Nobody in my family (the family I have left) really has much interest in languages. Even if they did, they probably realize that I know what I would want or need better than they could guess, so it's usually gift cards.

Truth be told, I prefer it that way.

R.
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jeff_lindqvist
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 Message 5 of 21
24 December 2010 at 8:35pm | IP Logged 
I didn't get anything particularly related to language learning, but last week I bought myself a DVD-box with all animated Tintin episodes (#3-#23; #1,2 and 24 have not been animated)) - with Mandarin audio+subtitles (simplified characters), and yesterday Complete Sherlock Holmes arrived in the mail.
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budonoseito
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 Message 6 of 21
24 December 2010 at 10:50pm | IP Logged 
I will use the Amazon gift card I usually get.

My friend is going to get my Harry Potter in Japanese when she goes back to Japan. I can
get it on Amazon but the price seems a little high.

Still thinking about getting a Kindle.
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 Message 7 of 21
25 December 2010 at 8:52am | IP Logged 
budonoseito wrote:
Still thinking about getting a Kindle.


What is a "Kindle"?

Fasulye
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 Message 8 of 21
25 December 2010 at 12:03pm | IP Logged 
Kindle is the name of the portable reader from Amazon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle

Benny/Irishpolyglot has written about how he's using it for language studies:
http://www.fluentin3months.com/convert-pdfs/


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