Collecting Language Books [WARNING: lots of images]

[Michael]

I couldn't possibly imagine spending my whole day uploading pictures on Unilang of books that are mostly dictionaries anyways.

[Unknown]

Yes he sure is.....Man that guy is lucky as hell to have that many language books.

[Meera]

I think this person is the ultimate language book hoarder with more than 1500 books:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GD-_3nOVHQ

This is what is going to happen to me if I keep buying language books

But he is really lucky though! I'd honestly love to have all those books.

[księżycowy]

I think this person is the ultimate language book hoarder with more than 1500 books:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GD-_3nOVHQ

This is what is going to happen to me if I keep buying language books

But he is really lucky though! I'd honestly love to have all those books.

I was starting on a huge collection.But then I started to realize I'd never get around to using over half of my books, so I'm actually going the other way and selling some off.
One of these days I'll get around to posting a picture of the remains. (Which I'm sure will still be quite a few)

[Marah]

And then you'd have to find the place to put them...

[księżycowy]

And then you'd have to find the place to put them...

One thing I'm constantly hearing about is how my books are "all over the house."

[Meera]

And then you'd have to find the place to put them...

One thing I'm constantly hearing about is how my books are "all over the house."

My mom and dad say the same thing all the time.

[Shiba]

And then you'd have to find the place to put them...

One thing I'm constantly hearing about is how my books are "all over the house."

My mom and dad say the same thing all the time.

Ha! In our house, it's my parents and brother who own all the language books. I own one, for Norwegian; between them, they've got a collection of Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Sotho, Tswana and Japanese (not to mention all the bilingual dictionaries, including one for Latin, as well as tons of Afrikaans schoolbooks).

I once mentioned some or other statistic related to the amount of people who own books in South Africa - something ridiculously low, like <10% or something (I doubt that's actually true, though!), to which my mom replied, "Well, we make up for that."

[Meera]

Here are a few of my language books. It's not my whole collection but the ones I could fit in my bookcase. Sorry the pics didn't come out very clear so I took two so you guys can see it better.

[IpseDixit]

My books grouped by language:

Hebrew



French



English (I actually have many others from highschool)



Ladin



Russian



Spanish



Greek



Portuguese

[~jakip]

My study's books (I use the first three at school):

English:


Spanish:


Latin:


Romanian:


Milanese:


Esperanto:

[הענט]

C'mon guys. Erope is not spamming, plus we have been warned (LOTS OF IMAGES)

In our city library, there's a Russian-Japanese dictionary with Japanese in Cyrrilic. Now that's cool.
Oddly enough, there are more dictionaries in our city library, than in the one in Prague. And I mean the Municipal Library of Prague.

There are many specialized and technical dictionaries plus vast choice of languages.

Yaghnobi, Mari, Iraqi Spoken Arabic, Tibetan, Burmese, Czech-Dari-Pashto among the less common ones.
I must say I visit that place a lot .

Since the last time I posted here I've bought a Bulgarian phrasebook adn 1000 words in Arabic. Now I can read the script, so it's great.

[OldBoring]

with so many language books I have, I don't want to learn any at the moment.

[TeneReef]

with so many language books I have, I don't want to learn any at the moment.

你未免太懒点儿了吧。

[vijayjohn]

Uh, no, I definitely don't think hāozigǎnr's lack of interest in studying other languages atm has anything to do with laziness.

[snowman888]

My collection... 145 books

Japanese 15
Russian 21
Greek 2
Latin 6
Arabic 7
Finnish 6
Swedish 4
Icelandic 2
Chinese 11
Spanish 9
Lao 2
Italian 6
Czech 1
French 6
Korean 5
Turkish 4
Welsh 1
German 5
Albanian 1
Portuguese 1
Mongolian 1
Urdu 1
Norwegian 1
Thai 2
Polish 3
Romanian 3
Estonian 2
Persian 2
Yoruba 1
Serbian 1
Hindi 2
Ancient Egyptian 1
Nepalese 1
Hebrew 1
Vietnamese 2
Cantonese 1
Bulgarian 1
Hungarian 1
Dutch 1
Lithuanian 1
Irish 1

Here's a picture of them on the shelf. They take up four shelves, ordered by size. The picture of them all together was too blurry, so I have pictures of the shelves two at a time. Pictures of books to come soon.

[snowman888]

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