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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7170 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes  12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 24 21 February 2005 at 5:22am | IP Logged | ||
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GRANT & CUTLER
http://www.grantandcutler.com/ 55 Great Marlborough Street +44 020 7734 2012 London W1F 7AY England Large and long-established general language bookstore in Soho, roughly between Oxford Street, Regent Street and Charing Cross Road. I have shopped there many times and recommend that any language lover pays it a visit. The bookstore is cavernous, with large sections on most important languages and books about every minor language as well. They also sell some DVDs. Shopping attendants are not hugely pleasant, but you don't need them. They also sell mail order but I'd rather shop on Amazon.com than order from some list. FOYLES http://www.foyles.co.uk/ 113-119 Charing Cross Road WC2H 0EB, London The largest bookstore I've ever visited, Foyles is a labyrinth of specialized rooms sprawling all over a city block in Soho. It is huge! They stock more than 1.4 million books. They have a good language section although a far cry from Grant and Cutler. Since both shops are not far from each other, I warmly recommend a visit to Foyles as well, which stocks almost everything. They have an entire room and a lady entirely dedicated to Mathematics. One for military history. Another for Cinema. And so on. The bookstore is being totally overhauled as we speak and will become much better organized for check out and paying. Edited by administrator on 21 February 2005 at 5:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jradetzky Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom geocities.com/jradet Joined 7001 days ago 521 posts - 485 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanB1 | Message 2 of 24 04 March 2005 at 7:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've also been to Grant & Cutler a couple of times and yes they have a large collection of language material, although I don't remember having seen any Pimsleur courses and their Assimil offer was rather limited.
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| onebir Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6957 days ago 484 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 3 of 24 19 April 2005 at 8:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Grant & Cutler does have some pimsleur courses - mostly the short ones for less common languages.
Here's another one: www.lclib.com Off the beaten track - on Judd St just south of Euston Rd between Kings Cross and Euston - but so is its' stock. ie they sometimes have FSI courses, and audio courses I've never seen anywhere else. Are they any good? No idea; they're generally way too expensive! But if I were in London with a few weeks to prepare for a trip to somewhere exotic this is where I'd go. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cat Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6554 days ago 30 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Vietnamese, Korean | Message 4 of 24 29 July 2006 at 2:09am | IP Logged | ||
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After reading this thread, I made a trip to Grant and Cutler (I'm from London so it's easy for me). I was quite impressed and I love bookstores in general, let alone language bookstores, so I was in heaven. They had materials for both Vietnamese and Korean that I hadn't seen before. I ended up spending a decent sum of money but it was worth it. I'll definitely go back, and I love just wandering around, browsing through materials for other languages too...
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| ted23 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6277 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 5 of 24 16 August 2007 at 11:57am | IP Logged | ||
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For modern european languages the European Bookshop in London is very good. Especially good on french titles its close to Piccadily Circus. Less than 10 minutes to Grant & Cutler which is then less than 10 minutes walk to Foyles. LCL books is probably another fifteen minutes walk from that. If you go to all four it can be an expesnive walk.
http://www.europeanbookshop.com/ They have a sister shop dedicated for Italian books, close to Holborn (Sicilian Avenue) if I remember correctly. I concur that LCL is expensive as is Grant & Cutler, but for obscure stuff, with people who know what they are talking about its offset to a certain extent. Waterstones on Gower Street - used to be Dillons in my day - is a large bookshop which supplies University of London course books. (Its next door to one of UoL's biggest colleges (UCL) and over the road from the University of London Students Union. It sits in between Foyles and LCL if you really like walking. Occasionally they have second hand language books, but to be honest the prices are generally closer to new than the condition is. Also Borders sometimes carries some American titles which are not availabe from other bookshops. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6897 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 6 of 24 16 August 2007 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | ||
Has it moved then? There used to be a computer bookshop on Sicilian Avenue in Holborn (which has now gone, I believe). I thought the Italian branch of The European Bookshop was near Charing Cross Road. Andy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6809 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 24 16 August 2007 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | ||
It was there last month when I visited it! I personally preferred Grant & Cutler to the European Bookshop since the latter appeared to have rows upon rows of French books and not much else. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ted23 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6277 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 24 16 August 2007 at 6:13pm | IP Logged | ||
It was there last month when I visited it! [QUOTE] Oh dear trick of the fading memory :o( My apologies, its a long time since I have been to either the Computer Bookshop (Sicilian Avenue and aapparently now closed) or the Italian Bookshop (Cecil Court). I only thought of it as I went to the main European Bookshop a couple of weeks ago. Edited because I am babbling, its late, I'm tired Edited by ted23 on 16 August 2007 at 6:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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