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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4450 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 1 of 4 30 March 2012 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was browsing amazon.fr for courses in the Colloquial series and discovered that a number of them can be bought as e-books for Kindle. I downloaded a couple of free extracts and it seems that the content is pretty much the same as in the printed books.
Unfortunately, many languages are not yet available, hopefully they will be. I am a big fan of e-books, but before I go ahead and buy (it is so easy and tempting to click on that button...) I would like to hear if others have any experience in using e-books (Kindle or other formats) for studying, and if you think it has any disadvantages compared to using a "normal" book. Also, does anyone on this Forum know about other language programmes that have been issued as e-books, apart from Colloquial? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5410 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 2 of 4 30 March 2012 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I always worry, that in the e-books letters with diacritics, phonetic symbols and non-latin script are occasionally replaced by □ or other rubbish. Edited by Cabaire on 30 March 2012 at 5:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6408 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 3 of 4 30 March 2012 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've used them for the L1 part of Listening-Reading and they help nicely with my bad habit of reading random parts of the L1 book while not doing LR.
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4450 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 4 of 4 31 March 2012 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
I know that can be a problem. I downloaded the free samples for Colloquial Hebrew and Colloquial Urdu. The Urdu and Hebrew scripts come out all right. The only drawback is that in some tables, the "print" is really small, and the size does not change for the non-Latin script when you change font size. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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