{"id":523,"date":"2006-08-21T21:27:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T04:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=523"},"modified":"2009-04-29T18:31:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T01:31:41","slug":"language-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2006\/08\/21\/language-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Language books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My offline friends know I&#8217;m a language fiend. I&#8217;m not particulary <em>good<\/em> at most of them, but I like to collect them. \ud83d\ude00 And books about them. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m keeping this post to remind myself of exactly what language-learning books I have and to show them off \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><b>French<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Le bon usage<\/em>, a giant French grammar of everything and anything you could possibly need to know (okay, I&#8217;m exagerrating, but this is one huge book. It&#8217;s bigger than my dictionary.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Grammaire pratique du fran\u00e7ais d&#8217;aujourd&#8217;hui<\/em>, another grammar book, but written in French for non-Francophones.<\/li>\n<li><em>Grammaire compl&egrave;te<\/em>, a grammar I bought in Qu&eacute;bec. Now that I have it I&#8217;m not too sure I need it anymore. It uses odd capitalization (le Subjonctif; le Conditionnel) but it has really cute pictures XD<\/li>\n<li><em>French Prose Composition<\/em>, it&#8217;s an exercise book for English to French translation. There are no answers though, just a very interesting preface. XD<\/li>\n<li><em>Ensuite<\/em>, a random French textbook I bought at a library book sale. I don&#8217;t know where this went, actually.<\/li>\n<li><em>C&#8217;est la vie<\/em>, ditto.<\/li>\n<li><em>Collins-Robert Pocket French Dictionary<\/em>, still going strong after many years of service!<\/li>\n<li><em>La petite Larousse, 197x<\/em>, I can&#8217;t remember when exactly it was published, but it&#8217;s old. It has pictures though, helpful for when you can&#8217;t figure out what kind of tree an  &#8216;epinette&#8217; is (it&#8217;s a pine, I think.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Le micro Robert<\/em>, dictionnaire linguistique que j&#8217;ai achet&eacute; au Qu&eacute;bec. It&#8217;s awesome.<\/li>\n<li><em>Mettre de l&#8217;ordre dans ses id&eacute;es<\/em>, a book all about connecteurs! \ud83d\ude00 Cost me an arm and a leg but given the emphasis my prof in Qu&eacute;bec put on them, I think it&#8217;s well worth the cost.<\/li>\n<li><em>Larousse: Difficult&eacute;s Grammaticales<\/em>, a small little reference book for those little details of French grammar. Surprisingly cheap, too \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>Plus a whackload of literary works (Voltaire, Ionesco, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Japanese<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>French-Japanese dictionary<\/em>, it is t3h awesome. Case closed. I can&#8217;t really use it, but still&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em>Japanese for Busy People, Vol I (kana edition)<\/em>, a cute find, but unfortunately I am already familiar with 90% of the lessons presented here (not that I recall them exactly: I never liked numbers in Japanese.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Japanese for Busy People, Vol II<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>250 Kanji Essential for Everyday Use, Vol II<\/em> (or some such title). Haven&#8217;t even looked at this.<\/li>\n<li><em>Conversational Japanese: the Cortina method<\/em>, this book is so old it comes with an offer for a free record. XD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(I am getting tired of these comments, and in any case, they are only interesting for the French ones, anyway.)<\/p>\n<p><b>German<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Pocket Oxford German Dictionary<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Berlitz German Grammar handbook<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Teach Yourself German<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Teach Yourself German Grammar<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Handbuch zur deutschen Grammatik<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Chinese (Mandarin)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Chinese: an essential grammar<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Chinese in 10 Minutes a Day<\/em>, &#8216;gift&#8217; when I was, oh, 5, and HOW IT SHOWS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Chinese (Cantonese)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Elementary Cantonese, Vol I<\/em>, currently on loan to someone somewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Spanish<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Collins Spanish Dictionary<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Teach Yourself Spanish<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Vietnamese<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Essential Vietnamese Phrases<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Russian<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Penguin Russian Course<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My offline friends know I&#8217;m a language fiend. I&#8217;m not particulary good at most of them, but I like to collect them. \ud83d\ude00 And books about them. \ud83d\ude00 So I&#8217;m keeping this post to remind myself of exactly what language-learning books I have and to show them off \ud83d\ude00 French Le bon usage, a giant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,18],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotidian","tag-books","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}