Collecting Language Books [WARNING: lots of images]

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Postby Sisyphe » 2007-08-18, 2:17

Bjarn wrote:*Is whiling away the time in wistful envy*
Sisyphe, where do you get the money?


This is why I only have $15 in my pocket right now. :lol: When I go to a bookstore money practically burns out of my pockets. :twisted: Especially at that bookstore at Chicago that I found....Europa Books...even more of a reason why I love Chicago. 8) But mostly, the money comes from being a spoiled OC brat...:P *puts on a wraspy voice* and all of my drug deals...but shh...:jk:

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Postby Alcadras » 2007-08-18, 7:28

Marcus :cry:

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Postby proycon » 2007-08-18, 8:01

wow! You've got quite a collection on your hands already! :) Great photos!
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Postby skye » 2007-08-18, 10:29

Lyle wrote:Bottom (from left) : 4 mini dictionaries (from Ron too)
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Postby Aleco » 2007-08-18, 10:59

@ Skye:
You really terrified me there! When I saw a picture of a quote, I thought you quoted all of Sisyphes pictures :lol:

God, I am surprised to see how many books you guys have!!
I only have three books! ( :oops: or :lol: or :shock: ?)

Genki
Colloquial Hebrew
Allegro 1

And as you see in my signature, none of them are being used (definetly :oops: )
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Postby Pasajero » 2007-08-18, 17:43

Sisyphe you're crazy, I thought I had alot of books...
I'm taking pictures of mine now, it's harder than it looks, because I don't want to disorganize them...

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Postby Trapy » 2007-08-18, 18:20

Gotta love second hand bookstores... or masses of money... lol

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Postby Pasajero » 2007-08-18, 19:36

Ok I thought I didn't have that many books, but damn this took longer than I thought. I was doing some cleaning anyways, so I apologize for the shitty pictures, I just wanted to clean and organize, so I took them kind of on the fly, without worrying about lighting (I live in eternal darkness or twilight). I order them now by the Pasajecimal system I use at my library.

American Languages (11) Náhuatl(5) Maya(3) Zapoteca(1) Návajo(1) Cherokee(1)
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/Anahuac.jpg">

Barbarian Languages(3) German(2) English(2)
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/Barbaric.jpg">

Español (8)
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/Español.jpg">

Français (6)
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/Français.jpg">

Greek (1) Ok poor Greek was so lonely I put some other non-English books I have to accompany it.
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/GreeketFriends.jpg">

IPA (3)
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/IPA.jpg">

Italiano (4)
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/Italiano.jpg">

Oriental (5) Chinese (3) Japanese (1)
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/Oriental.jpg">

Romance (6) These are minority Romance, and one Latin. (Yes I consider Portuguese minority)
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/Romana.jpg">

Semetic (14) Arabic (13) Hebrew (1)
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/Semetic.jpg">

As far as organization goes, I just put them from small to big (but try to group related languages) I remember where all my books are specially since I have 3 different shelves for the language ones...

My "Language" book shelf, notice that poor platform bending (I was cleaning so I will flip it around)
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/DirtyShelf.jpg">

Right side of my Computer
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/DeskRight.jpg">

Left side
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/DeskLeft.jpg">

Bjarn wrote:*Is whiling away the time in wistful envy*
Sisyphe, where do you get the money?

My actual book collection is few, but my traces are many. Random childrens books, candy wrappers(LOTS) Embarassed , newspapers, instruction manuals, multilingual packaging.... Laughing

A linguistic packrat.


Oh My GOD! So do I! Look:
<img src="http://pistolero.unilang.org/Xaime/images/Libros/Trash.jpg">

I have some other books lying around on the other shelf, but I was too lazy to go get them. Missing from here are all my Hindi Sanskrit and Telugu books and comics that were given to me. I'm just too lazy right now to go open up boxes and take them out.

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Postby ego » 2007-08-18, 19:48

LOL @ that "Merda. The real Italian you were never taught at school" :lol:

I have too many books too, perhaps as many as Sisyphe but I'm too bored to take photos.

Sisyphe: What do you think of Hippocrene's Greek?

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Postby Pasajero » 2007-08-18, 20:04

ego wrote:LOL @ that "Merda. The real Italian you were never taught at school" :lol:

I have too many books too, perhaps as many as Sisyphe but I'm too bored to take photos.

Sisyphe: What do you think of Hippocrene's Greek?


If you know Italian, then you'll understand when I say that this is actually the most useful book out of all the others. :roll:

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Postby Javier » 2007-08-18, 20:37

This is my dear set of books, as today I wanted to reorganize them, I put them out and started to do pictures
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Japanese, one is not a book, is kids software
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Arabic - some are books for kids
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Chinese (1)
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Chinese (2)
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Persian, Hebrew, Turkish
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Thai
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German, italian, french and guarani
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Hungarian, finnish, vietnamese, burmese, cambodian, malay, indonesian, korean and greek
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Russian, portuguese, dutch
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OMG!

Postby kalemiye » 2007-08-18, 20:53

Oh my God boys! I barely have like 5 or 6 languages books! (and 3 dictionaries) I might take some pics tomorrow but don't expect cool books.
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Postby Luís » 2007-08-18, 21:03

@ Sisyphe - It seems you and I have some books in common. And of course, "Colloquial Hebrew", the one book every single Unilanger seems to own :lol:

I apologize for the extremely low quality of the pictures, but I don't really have a proper camera here at the moment...

The whole collection (around 100 books if I'm not mistaken)
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Chinese (13)
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Polish (11)
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Hebrew (5) and Arabic (4)
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Greek (5) and Latin (4)
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Romanian (3), Italian (2) and Catalan (2)
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French (6) and Spanish (4)
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English (3), Dutch (2), Swedish (2), Afrikaans (1) and German (1)
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Indonesian (3), Tetum (2), Korean (2) and Japanese (1)
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Czech(4), Russian (2), Slovene (1), Serbo-Croat (1) and Slovak (1)
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Finnish (2), Hungarian (1), Lithuanian (1), Hieroglyphs (1), Interlingua (1) + two books I forgot to add before (Spanish and French)
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Postby Qoppa » 2007-08-18, 21:25

This topic makes me happy. And jealous.

No pics as they would be very boring, but the vast majority of my book collection is Russian. It is also very tiny in comparison.

Russian: 9
German: 2
Shorthand: 2
Latin: 1
Persian: 1
French: 1
Japanese: 1
Chinese: 1

I need more.

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my books

Postby kalemiye » 2007-08-18, 21:59

These are my books :).

arabic
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akkadian
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turkish
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varios
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varios2
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Postby loqu » 2007-08-18, 22:05

renata, that VOX Latin dictionary is so traditional :) the Arabic dictionary by Corriente is really complete, I have it also :D

@Luís: what can you tell me about that "Beginner's Lithuanian" book? Do you think it's a good textbook to learn? I saw it on Amazon but didn't buy it.

I need a good textbook for my Lithuanian learning, but for every book I find on the internet, I only can read bad reviews. :?
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Postby gothwolf » 2007-08-18, 22:59

I have only these.

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Postby Karavinka » 2007-08-19, 5:37

I'll just list the languages I have resources for - books, dictionaries and photocopied stack of papers, but I don't count phrasebooks (I don't like them, I don't think they're learning materials, and I recently dumped all that I had.)

The total would be less than 50 I think. Languages with three books or more are highlighted in bold (and they more or less correspond to the languages I'm quite serious about.)

In alphabetical order:

Ainu (photocopied), Arabic, Chechen (photocopied), Chinese Mandarin, Demotic Egyptian (photocopied), English, French, Hindi, Finnish, German, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Mongolian (photocopied), Nivkh (photocopied), Occitan, Polish, Spanish, Tibetan, Urdu, Yukaghir (photocopied)

I'm not taking pictures now as my books are separated in my dorm room and my parents' place (so I don't have an access now to more than half of what I actually own. :/ )

I should stop hoarding papers and actually learn from them... I often regret buying the Finnish dictionary and the Polish coursebook. I never used them, and I don't think I will in the near future.
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Postby Luís » 2007-08-19, 10:41

loqu wrote:@Luís: what can you tell me about that "Beginner's Lithuanian" book? Do you think it's a good textbook to learn? I saw it on Amazon but didn't buy it.


The book is quite large and it seems to cover every topic up until the advanced level. Plenty of charts, declension tables, etc. It assumes, however, that you're familiar with linguistic terminology and sometimes it can get too overwhelming. I haven't used it myself, though, so I have no idea of how effective it is. Either way, it's a cheap book, so it can't hurt to buy it ;)

@Sisyphe & Javier: Is this "Elementary Korean" any good? And what do you think of Schaum's "Chinese Grammar" and "Chinese Vocabulary"?
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Postby kalemiye » 2007-08-19, 10:57

noir wrote:I don't count phrasebooks (I don't like them, I don't think they're learning materials, and I recently dumped all that I had.)


I don't like phrasebooks either, but they have been quite useful for me to learn vocabulary so that's the main reason why i still keep them.
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