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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5659 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 19 18 December 2011 at 5:47am | IP Logged |
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Of course I don't know my own Christmas presents yet, but my German Italian conversation friend will receive a self-made photo calendar with all kinds trees and bushes with my handwritten descriptions all written in Italian. Probably I will get a language calendar from her, let's see for which language.
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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6432 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 10 of 19 18 December 2011 at 8:32am | IP Logged |
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The concept of Christmas gift-giving is a little beyond my comprehension and I don't intend to give or receive any gifts this year. However, I did buy myself a big fat grammar for Japanese which is due to arrive in just two more days. And waiting is hard. So it's almost like Christmas.
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| pfn123 Senior Member Australia Joined 4895 days ago 171 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English* | Message 11 of 19 18 December 2011 at 9:25am | IP Logged |
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My dad doesn't like to read for long periods at a time, so I got him Charles Berlitz's 'Native Tongues' for Christmas. I got the book recently, and really enjoyed it. It has lots of interesting language facts, but they're short and self-contained, so you can pick up the book and read from anywhere.
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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 12 of 19 18 December 2011 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
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If someone's looking for some ideas, I just remembered a fun little book that any
language geek would enjoy, but especially those studying Italian, French, Spanish, or Latin. "Idiom's Delight" by Suzanne Brock contains the literal English translations and English equivalents of various idioms in those languages, and it's quite a fun little read, illuminating bits of culture and some of the more humorous idioms. It contains the idiom in the original language, the literal English translation, and then the equivalent phrase and perhaps a comment about it by the author. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5146 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 13 of 19 18 December 2011 at 10:41pm | IP Logged |
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A long life has showed me that God helps she who helps herself when it comes to Christmas presents, so I buy my own.
This year I have gotten myself an overdose of language CD-ROMs "Talk more". I got Ukrainian for beginners, Mandarin for beginners and Icelandic for beginners and intermediate learners, plus a UNIFORUM beginner course in Mandarin - it is not particularly good but, I am not really serious about Mandarin, so it is just to get a hint of it. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5397 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 14 of 19 19 December 2011 at 4:30am | IP Logged |
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Dear Santa,
ASSIMIL. Love, Jordan 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4942 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 15 of 19 19 December 2011 at 4:48am | IP Logged |
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An Amazon gift card makes me happy, Christmas or birthday. It'll always be put to good use.
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| vikavictoria Pentaglot Groupie United States Joined 4861 days ago 49 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Persian, English*, German, Spanish, Tajik Studies: Russian | Message 16 of 19 19 December 2011 at 6:38am | IP Logged |
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For sure, a gift card is always good, especially when you can buy language materials with it))). As for me, I just got a 50 dollar gift-card (credit card, so I can use it pretty much anywhere I wish), so I may buy a cool notebook and pen-set to fuel my motivation for studying...I mean, who doesn't enjoy (at least sometimes) a colorful pen set when learning grammar from a boring-old grammar?
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