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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5962 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 17 of 35 28 March 2012 at 10:35am | IP Logged | ||
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For the first time ever, I managed to give away some of my older language books to a work associated charity. All the material was for learning Spanish. However, in the past couple of months alone, I still ended up purchasing,
Assimil Russian Assimil Italian (currently cramming) - This course is much better than Assimil Spanish. Routledge Frequency Dictionary of French Routledge Frequency Dictionary of Spanish Routledge Frequency Dictionary of Russian BBC Buongiorno Italia - This course has 3 hours of numerous Italian speakers. Living Italian - Good for grammar with some strange vocabulary. E.g. Carnation - Garafano Soluzioni! : A Practical Guide to Italian Grammar Collins Easy Learning Italian Dictionary Grammaire en Dialogues Intermediare I think I have a problem ... Edited by DaraghM on 28 March 2012 at 10:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6514 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 35 28 March 2012 at 11:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I have actually made a video about my grammars and dictionaries (leaving out the travel guides, popular science mags and printouts from the internet plus the relatively limited assortment of literary works which mostly is stored away at the hindside of my shelves). Edited by Iversen on 28 March 2012 at 11:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5020 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 35 28 March 2012 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here in Toronto, BMV bookstore, which deals in remaindered and second hand books, often has language-
learning sets and books at deeply (!!) discounted prices. The Bloor Street location usually has the most stock, but I've taken to keeping my eye out at their other branches as well for anything in my future target languages. It's even been really hard to resist acquiring material in languages I don't have a hope of studying, much less learning! ("I've always wanted to take the Trans-Siberian Express; wouldn't it be an idea to get this Living Language Russian just in case...?") Hugo, Living Language, and Berlitz are often in stock. Unfortunately, Assimil's never made an appearance on their shelves. :-( 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| koba Heptaglot Senior Member AustriaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5679 days ago 118 posts - 201 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, French | Message 20 of 35 29 March 2012 at 3:24am | IP Logged | ||
That's a great book collection you have there! It's my dream to have such a library at home with endless language books. Personally, I love Assimil as a method so I would like to have at least all the Assimil books (if I get hold of the old editions as well that would be great), even if I never learn most of these languages. It just looks great on a bookshelf, all those bilingual books. I think it's a must for any language geek. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| squonk Groupie United States Joined 4557 days ago 44 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Irish | Message 21 of 35 30 March 2012 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have the same problem as many of you: I keep gathering more and more books, and I
cannot bear to give any away. Today I noticed, by chance, that our county library system was holding a "Friends of the Library" book sale, and the language selection was tantalizing! For $10.50, I picked up: FRENCH Les Échelles du Levant, Amin Maalouf Samarcande, Amin Maalouf Jean de Florette, Marcel Pagnol La cinquantaine au masculin, Huguette Maure Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide, Françoise Sagan Le Chat, Georges Simenon Le Confessional, Georges Simenon SPANISH First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book, Angel Flores Susana y Javier en España, Marvin Wasserman and Carol Wasserman Easy Spanish Step-by-Step, Bregstein Spanish for Oral and Written Review, Mario Iglesias Stargirl (en Español), Spinelli Aprendices de brujo, Antonio Orlando Rodríguez ITALIAN Cortina's Italian in 20 Lessons (for nostalgia!) RUSSIAN Рассудок маньяка, Чингис Абдуллаев TURKISH Essentials of Modern Turkish, Kreider I guess I'd better get reading! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6730 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 22 of 35 30 March 2012 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I started giving away my books (over 1,000 so far) when I realized that it is better to study diligently out of one of two books rather than being overwhelmed by 100s and not knowing where to start. I picked the best and donated the rest. I also got rid of books for all the languages I will not have time to study (my goal being mastery of a language). I find it funny when I see videos of young people with thousands of books on hundreds of languages because I know that sooner or later they will eventually come to the conclusion that there is not enough time in their life to study everything and they will have wasted (as I did) a lot of money and time collecting books. If you are not careful, the joy of finding and collecting language books and materials (and making videos about how you learn languages, etc.)can quickly overshadow time spent actually studying them.
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| zashi Newbie United States Joined 4379 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 23 of 35 24 May 2012 at 6:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm also LA Linguist Anonymous....I collect language books...
I justify it as - i was weeding out the bad books and I think i have finally found my learning style. It's difficult to get rid of though. Now my poor IPOD is getting flooded :( 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5619 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 24 of 35 24 May 2012 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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How about adding this one?
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange. http://www.amazon.com/The-Horse-Wheel-Language-Bronze-Age/dp /0691058873 1 person has voted this message useful |
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