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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6251 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1 of 11 23 October 2007 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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On Saint-Denis, there's a really great store that says book store on the outside but actually they only sell language courses (including multimedia) and bilingual books. I was very impressed with their selection. They have walls full of items for French, English and Spanish, several dozen titles for common languages such as German, Japanese or Chinese, but even for small African or Native American languages you can find at least something.
The salespeople are knowledgeable language geeks and the prices are good, particularly for French-based textbooks such as Harrap's (like Teach Yourself) or the 40 lecons series (like Assimil), these are only 10 dollars or so. The only problem is with some American courses. Due to the current low of the American dollar and the strength of the Canadian dollar, which has risen from 60% to 101% of the value of the American dollar within a few years, American courses can sometimes be had much cheaper in the USA / from an American vendor. For example, I saw an "Ultimate Arabic" set with a 500-page book and 8 CDs, which was sold for 120 Canadian dollars or something, as the jacket recommended. The jacket also recommended a retail price of 79 American dollars though, and on Amazon.com I even saw the same set for 50 American dollars - really a great price for this much material, if your salary is in Euros... 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| quadrophenic Bilingual Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5922 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, German* Studies: French | Message 2 of 11 01 February 2008 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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That sounds great! I'm only a few blocks away, assuming it's closer to sherbrooke :-). Do you remember whereabouts on St. Denis it is?
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| dmg Diglot Senior Member Canada dgryski.blogspot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6792 days ago 555 posts - 605 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch, Esperanto | Message 3 of 11 02 February 2008 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's just below des Pins. Librarie Michel Fortin on Google Maps. Man, that place is dangerous. Everytime I go in I have to stop myself from spending $100+. I just have to keep reminding myself that there is no magic bullet ... (better to work on perfecting the materials I have, than buying another book in the hopes that "this time for sure" it'll be the thing I need to push me over into fluency...).
But yeah, great bookstore. Edited by dmg on 02 February 2008 at 12:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| quadrophenic Bilingual Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5922 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, German* Studies: French | Message 4 of 11 02 February 2008 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | ||
thanks! haha i know exactly what you mean :-P. every time i go into the language section of a bookstore i get so excited thinking about all the possibilities... Edited by quadrophenic on 02 February 2008 at 3:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| michaelmichael Senior Member Canada Joined 5038 days ago 167 posts - 202 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 5 of 11 14 August 2010 at 7:17am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll have to check it out.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5162 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 6 of 11 20 August 2010 at 5:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Actually, I used to work there!
Wow, that's was a good 12 years ago or so, though. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| michaelmichael Senior Member Canada Joined 5038 days ago 167 posts - 202 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 7 of 11 31 August 2010 at 6:47pm | IP Logged | ||
that's too bad, I was there recently. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5162 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 8 of 11 31 August 2010 at 7:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wonder who still works there...
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