Available language resources in your standard bookshop.

[nighean-neonach]

By the way, I spent about one hour here today:

and they have such a lot of language learning books and also a good choice of foreign language books (novels etc. in English, French, Spanish...) But well, it is in the middle of Köln (Cologne) and I think they want to attract students as well as tourists and all sorts of international visitors.

[Javier]

$20????? But Starbucks is usually $4-$5.

Yeah, it's Moscow. I wouldn't be surprised.

[Lada]

$20????? But Starbucks is usually $4-$5.

Yeah, it's Moscow. I wouldn't be surprised.

everything is so expensive here comparing to Europe and may be to the rest of the world...

[Javier]

Yeah, it's Moscow. I wouldn't be surprised.

everything is so expensive here comparing to Europe and may be to the rest of the world...

There is another place - Luanda (Angola). I was there for two weeks and it's even more expensive than Moscow. You are lucky if you can eat for less than USD 30, I mean a normal dish with a beverage in a place you can seat. You can always buy just a piece of pineapple to the women who are selling fruits in the streets, but God knows for how many days they carry it around ...

[Smitty]

By the way, I spent about one hour here today:

and they have such a lot of language learning books and also a good choice of foreign language books (novels etc. in English, French, Spanish...) But well, it is in the middle of Köln (Cologne) and I think they want to attract students as well as tourists and all sorts of international visitors.

That looks like a great place, a shame there isn't any stores like that in Leeds (that I know of anyway!)

[nighean-neonach]

That looks like a great place

It is They have several stores in my area of Germany, and they are better than those bigger chains like Thalia, etc.
I usually go to the Mayersche store in Essen, which looks even more impressive than the one in Köln:

That one has a great language department as well.