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December 26, 2011
23:15

Raphaël Serve

Le Crès

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Do you keep them when you move to your next mission or do you sell them?

Actual mission: Japanese Native:French Learning at school: English and German Learning at home: Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan, toki pona, Esperanto My dream from when I was a kid: learning Ancient Egyptian Next mission: Arabic. Hobbies: Learning languages and conlanging. My language blog: http://polyglotte.over-blog.fr/

December 28, 2011
03:19

Benny

Berlin, Germany

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If I have any kind of emotional attachment to it, I'll take it with me to ultimately leave in my parent's attic. In most cases I'll either sell them or (more likely) give them to someone. I gave all my Turkish material away at the last Couchsurfing meeting I went to, to people I know who'd appreciate them. It's better that someone use it to actually learn something, rather than it gathering dust somewhere.

I can't be carrying books around when airlines have weight limits In fact, apart from the Lonely Planet phrasebook for Quechua, ALL my learning material for Klingon and Quechua were on my Kindle. For the next mission, an important book I need is only available in print form, but otherwise I plan to make it as digital as possible and "leave no trace" as we say in Burning Man!

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December 28, 2011
04:49

this_just_in

Toronto

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Hey Benny what kind of books do you use an where do you find out about them or Do you just stay with the mainstream books Assimil, TY, Lonely Planet etc..