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How looks the typical Espantisto bookshelve looks like?

de qwertz, 14 de março de 2010

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Idioma: English

qwertz (Mostrar o perfil) 14 de março de 2010 11:09:25

Like this one? rido.gif

RadioClare

(found at the RadioClare twitter tweet)

ceigered (Mostrar o perfil) 14 de março de 2010 11:25:23

I like! Needs more Latin, Greek and Hebrew though, in my personal opinion lango.gif

erinja (Mostrar o perfil) 14 de março de 2010 23:31:47

I've never met a serious Esperanto speaker who didn't have a pretty good assortment of language books, even if they weren't all on one shelf.

My language shelf has similar linguistic diversity, but fewer books per language. Hard to tell though, I don't have a big enough shelf to keep all of my language books together, so some of them are on shelves in different rooms, and some of them are packed in boxes.

As a sidenote, if you have a group of Esperanto speakers spending significant time in another Esperanto speaker's house for the first time, you will normally find them clustered around the host's language shelf at least once over the course of their visit.

Matthieu (Mostrar o perfil) 15 de março de 2010 07:50:02

erinja:As a sidenote, if you have a group of Esperanto speakers spending significant time in another Esperanto speaker's house for the first time, you will normally find them clustered around the host's language shelf at least once over the course of their visit.
That’s what happened when I hosted Esperantists. rido.gif
However my collection of language books is quite small (10-15 books).

andogigi (Mostrar o perfil) 15 de março de 2010 13:55:21

I am so glad I met you guys. My bookshelf looks very similar. (not as organized) I used to think there was something wrong with me. My wife still does think there is something wrong with me. It is wonderful to know that I am in good company. I am e-mailing this picture to her as we speak.

ceigered (Mostrar o perfil) 15 de março de 2010 15:05:39

@ Andogigi - I've found that doing a language course at uni, particularly the Asian languages (because they're not "traditional" like French, Greek and Italian), is a great way to find people with a heck of a lot of books on language in general, and rarely are any of those people weird ridulo.gif (in fact, I met an Esperantist for my first time that way. We speak in English all the time though).

Matthieu (Mostrar o perfil) 15 de março de 2010 15:43:17

andogigi:I am e-mailing this picture to her as we speak.
You can show her this link too: http://www.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=243....
She will see that you are not so crazy. lango.gif

Pharoah (Mostrar o perfil) 15 de março de 2010 22:09:45

Can you folks actually read books in all of these languages, or are some of them just there out of curiosity?

erinja (Mostrar o perfil) 16 de março de 2010 01:33:22

Pharoah, I think you will find books in both categories, in most cases. Esperantist shelves are heavy on books to learn other languages, usually with a smaller number of books that are actually written IN other languages.

My shelf is not too random with the languages. In almost every case, I have either taken some time to study the language, or at the very least, visited the place where the language is spoken. Language books are a souvenir for me. I usually pick up a pocket dictionary of a country I visit, if I don't already have one for that language. If it's a language I don't speak at all, I will often buy an inexpensive children's picture book written in that language. So I do have a small collection of picture books for languages I don't speak.

As far as books written in other languages, my largest collections are for the languages I've spent the most time studying - Esperanto and Italian. I have a small collection of French books and a big box full of old Yiddish books that I got for cheap. I can read all of those books, to a greater or lesser degree.

I have just a couple non-picture books that are written in languages that I don't read on any great level. Those are mostly language-learning books. In particular, I have two books in German that fall into this category - one is a book teaching Swiss German, the other is teaching Low German.

With the exception of the picture books, I think my shelf is fairly typical.

andogigi (Mostrar o perfil) 16 de março de 2010 11:58:33

Pharoah:Can you folks actually read books in all of these languages, or are some of them just there out of curiosity?
No. Not at all.

I have a curiosity about languages. When I find one I like, I start studying it. I never expected to begin studying Esperanto when I did. It just happened because I fell in love with the language.

I own Welsh, Icelandic, Croatian, Thai, Malay, and several other dictionaries which I have never opened. Why? Because I bought the dictionaries to see what the language looked like (also for short term use when I was there) and discovered they weren't languages that interested me. I have a lot more Japanese books, for example, than I have Welsh books.

I bought several children's books in China which I do use for studying. They have helped me tremendously with character learning. (The story of the "Little Prince" has been a HUGE help)

As an aside, some of the books in Mutusen's photos frightened me because I recognize them. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I own several of the same ones.

My wife is sick of it. I got a Kindle for Christmas in the hopes that she could get some of her wall space in the house returned to her. I don't mind confessing to this since it appears I'm not the only one. sal.gif

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