meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5779 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map
| Message 1 of 19 17 December 2011 at 8:57pm | IP Logged |
We've had a version of this thread around holiday season for the last few years. Will it be a nerdy holiday for you this year? Whatever holiday you celebrate, it is surely more festive with a few new language-related presents!
As for me, I usually find my own language materials, but I am planning, one day, to have a holiday Language Tree, with ornamental letters, characters and words from the world's languages decorating the entire nerdy thing. Since these items don't exist and I'll have to make them myself, this will require some time!
So, what would you like this year? (it's OK to be a little greedy!)
Edited by meramarina on 17 December 2011 at 8:59pm
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Rivso Diglot Groupie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4689 days ago 41 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Dutch, Japanese
| Message 2 of 19 17 December 2011 at 11:24pm | IP Logged |
I already know I'm geting a dutch assimil book due to my awesome future telling powers
(and maybe accidentaly seing it in my dads car might have helped...). otherwise I'd just
like some books in German and japanese as I seem to have hardly any that actually belong
to me :<
Otherwise yes I will spend alot of the holiday being a nerd as I live about half an hour
from any civilisation whatsoever.
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July Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 5085 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishB2 Studies: French
| Message 3 of 19 18 December 2011 at 12:05am | IP Logged |
I'm probably not getting anything, but I'm giving Assimil Italian with Ease to someone.
So it'll still be a very nerdy Christmas and a geeky New Year.
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yaboycon Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4547 days ago 40 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian
| Message 4 of 19 18 December 2011 at 12:19am | IP Logged |
I don't like Christmas and don't celebrate it really but I will buy myself some more old teach yourself, berlitz, assmil and colloquial books 2nd hand for super cheap sometime soon so it is kind of a Christmas present but to myself
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mikonai Diglot Senior Member United States weirdnamewriting.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4741 days ago 178 posts - 281 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Swahili, German
| Message 5 of 19 18 December 2011 at 2:27am | IP Logged |
I'm probably all right on learning materials for my current language... but I'd always
take other books in my TL, or else movies and the like for practice.
The problem is I have a rather odd set of interests, so I'm sure it's difficult for
people to shop for me, and I hate asking for things or making lists... Well, I might get
myself something fun with the Christmas cash ;)
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JimmyJameskun Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5760 days ago 35 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Indonesian
| Message 6 of 19 18 December 2011 at 2:38am | IP Logged |
Popular Movies and Books in my target language. I recently watched Opera Jawa (Javanese) - not quite the target
language of Indonesian but gets pretty close sometimes.
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NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4771 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese
| Message 7 of 19 18 December 2011 at 3:00am | IP Logged |
I've got a new Android phone - so hopefully I'm going to deck that with a variety of
different applications as I've only used the iPhone before...I've also known I was
getting it for a couple of months too and its been so painful waiting to use it haha!
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jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4846 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese
| Message 8 of 19 18 December 2011 at 5:09am | IP Logged |
I got myself a sundial necklace (really cool; really geeky) and a starter French book since I decided I was going to study French in 2012. I've been flirting with the language for a long time, but I think we should finally go out on a date... ;)
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