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ThisIsGina
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United Kingdom
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56 posts - 72 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, French

 
 Message 9 of 21
25 December 2010 at 4:01pm | IP Logged 
I got a Kindle from my mum and dad, a Cantonese book from my mum, and a new English-Spanish dictionary from my brother. My auntie gave me a £15 Amazon voucher that I'm going to use to buy a Greek Essential Grammar.
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Michael K.
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United States
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Spanish, Esperanto

 
 Message 10 of 21
25 December 2010 at 4:11pm | IP Logged 
The closest thing I got to language learning material was a DVD of "Gettysburg" with French subtitles, which I will definitely use once I get into French, although I really don't want to watch all 254 minutes of it in French subtitles. Oh well, at least the movie isn't 3 days long. :)
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thistledown
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United Kingdom
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14 posts - 38 votes
Speaks: English*

 
 Message 11 of 21
25 December 2010 at 4:37pm | IP Logged 
I got 4 language related presents: a copy of Jan Terlouw's Oorlogswinter, a copy of De Hobbit, money for one term's Dutch evening class, and a Linguaphone Dutch course from Ebay.

I'm going to be all Dutched-out!


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ellasevia
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Germany
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2150 posts - 3229 votes 
Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian
Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian

 
 Message 12 of 21
25 December 2010 at 6:34pm | IP Logged 
I got a Romanian dictionary, a book on the history of several different languages, a DVD course on linguistics, and an iTouch which will be immediately employed with fulfilling my language needs.
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Chung
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Speaks: English*, French
Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish

 
 Message 13 of 21
25 December 2010 at 8:24pm | IP Logged 
Strictly speaking it's not a Christmas gift (I bought myself some non-linguistically-related gifts though), although last week I bought an Afrikaans dictionary for a song on Amazon Marketplace.
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meramarina
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Speaks: English*, Spanish
Studies: German, Italian, French
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 Message 14 of 21
26 December 2010 at 12:24am | IP Logged 
I purchased my own language-related Christmas gift - the Assimil Italian program.

I've hardly looked at it yet, though, as the last few weeks have been chaotic. It has that same strange chemical printing smell that the French book does. I'm still working on that one,, though and doing an intensive Spanish review at the same time, so I'm a little afraid to start any Italian yet.

It's going to be a very romantic year (linguistically!)

Edited by meramarina on 26 December 2010 at 3:57am

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mikey
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United States
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Speaks: English*
Studies: French, Korean

 
 Message 16 of 21
26 December 2010 at 3:32am | IP Logged 
I actually made out pretty good!

I got

Colloquial Russian w/audio (most recent ed.)
Colloquial Russian (old school, by Mark Sieff)
Cortina Method Russian
and perhaps the best of all
Linguaphone Russian

I am a pretty happy camper.


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