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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6255 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 25 of 42 04 May 2014 at 6:03pm | IP Logged |
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Finished a Dutch book!
13. Jacoba, Dochter van Holland, by Simone van der Vlugt A really enjoyable historical novel about Jacoba van Beieren. My 6 Week Challenge has begun well: 18 hours total until now, more than three hours every day! Also, I'm currently addicted to the Chinese series "温州一家人" and I've started to watch the Greek series "το νησι". "温州一家人" is easier because it has Chinese subtitles, so that I can stop the video and look up words when necessary. In "το νησι", there are entire passages I don't understand. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6255 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 26 of 42 14 May 2014 at 1:06pm | IP Logged |
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I've been neglecting my Indonesian. It had been a month since I spent any time on it
and two months since I was studying it regularly. So now I signed up for a free Indonesian class that the Indonesian embassy is offering. It's twice a week for two hours each and I've already gone two times and enjoyed it, even though it's a bit too easy for me. Mostly, it ensures that I'm spending time on Indonesian. Another success: I finally finished the big bilingual book on Chinese history that I've been reading for a while. 14. 中国历史常识 by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council It covers a lot of history I never heard of (the earlier times) and for the modern times it's interesting to read the Chinese government's slant on things! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6255 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 27 of 42 31 May 2014 at 6:22pm | IP Logged |
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The Indonesian class is going well, but I learned sad news: apparently the shipping
costs from Indonesia to Europe are outrageously high (like 40 EUR per kilo), so there is no way of getting Indonesian books to Germany except if I went there myself. So much for the idea of doing an Indonesian Half Super Challenge... unless the Indonesian Embassy's library turns out to be a good find; they seem to focus on books about Landeskunde though rather than novels. Speaking of books, I finished 15. Whatever Happened to Tanganyika? by Harry Campbell A delightful book on changing place names and the reasons behind them. Now I'm reading a Greek book I mail-ordered: Η Τελευταία Μαύρη Γάτα, and another Greek book on the European Idea. Other than that, I've been taking a few Spanish lessons in order to brush up my rusty Spanish and I've been reviewing my Spanish lessons on Duolingo. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6382 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 28 of 42 31 May 2014 at 6:40pm | IP Logged |
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Perhaps you can get something from bookdepository?
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6694 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 29 of 42 01 June 2014 at 2:24am | IP Logged |
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The International Library of Sweden buy their Indonesian books from https://www.gramediaonline.com/ (if the link list isn't too out of date). Maybe you'll find something there.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6255 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 30 of 42 05 June 2014 at 6:24pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks. Bookdepository seems to only have religious books in Indonesian. Gramediaonline
looks more promising. In the meantime I have finished a thick (350+ page) Greek book which I really enjoyed: 16. Η Τελευταία Μαύρη Γάτα by Ευγένιος Τριβιζάς Edited by Sprachprofi on 05 June 2014 at 6:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6255 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 31 of 42 23 June 2014 at 2:39pm | IP Logged |
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Organizing the Polyglot Gathering took all my attention and I'm currently ca. 30 hours
behind my goal. Nevertheless it was also a great place to practice languages and geek out. Here's my blog post about it: http://learnlangs.com/polyglot_gathering_2014 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6255 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 32 of 42 21 July 2014 at 4:20pm | IP Logged |
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Omg, I haven't updated in a while. I was visiting my family for several weeks and
getting stuff in order and as soon as I was back in Berlin, Richard Simcott showed up and we did a bunch of stuff together, also with Professor Arguelles, who happened to be in Berlin, and it has been a crazy week. I'm still 60 hours behind schedule in terms of language study, but these two are rekindling my motivation and giving me new ideas for how to move forward. Here's my updated list of books - I still have several started-on Greek ones, hence the series of English/German books I was reading at the same time: 1. La Infiel by Reyes Monforte 2. Api Maut by Karl May 3. f**k Calories and Other Dietary Heresies by Krista Scott-Dixon 4. Night by Elie Wiesel 5. Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins 6. The Now Habit by Neil A. Fiore 7. 仁的故事 8. Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain 9. 痞子哲学 by 王朔 (Filosofare randagio by Wang Shuo) 10. "Durfte Brandt knien?" by Alexander Behrens 11. 你在天堂里遇见的五个人 by Mitch Albom 12. On se left you see se Siegessäule by Tilman Birr 13. Jacoba, Dochter van Holland, by Simone van der Vlugt 14. 中国历史常识 by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council 15. Whatever Happened to Tanganyika? by Harry Campbell 16. Η Τελευταία Μαύρη Γάτα by Ευγένιος Τριβιζάς 17. Rework by Jason Fried 18. Treaty's Law, Star Trek TOS by D. W. Smith 19. Ehrensache, Star Trek by Diana Gallagher 20. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower 21. Hurra, wir kapitulieren! Von der Lust am Einknicken by Henryk M. Broder 22. Ο συντηρητής - The Clockmaker by Γκουγιουμτζιάν, Ρουμπίνα This last book is a collection of short stories by Roubina Gouyoumtzian in Greek with interlinear English translations. I found the concept of having the English translation underneath each word really useful, because it allowed me to pick up more Greek words without having to consult a dictionary (which I'm too lazy to do). The stories were nice, easily able to hold my attention and some made me think a bit longer. I would have preferred one long story rather than several short ones because this way I often stopped my Greek session in order to reflect on a story, not ready to continue yet. Reading more Greek per session with these interlinear translations would have helped me learn more of the new words. But that's just a minor detail; I hope that www.interlinearbooks.com will soon publish a longer Greek work! 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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