Emaelivpeith Jake:
>I'm trying to finally teach myself French and I would like to
>know what you all think is the best low-priced teach-yourself
>type book. IPA transcription is a must. For some reason I can't
>find a good book online.
I'm looking for the exactly the same thing. I asked back at the August
about it, but mostly I got comments about how someone had used
such-and-such a textbook in school. I did get some tips, though:
Muke suggested:
>"Hungarian: Verbs and Essentials of Grammar". I think, but am not sure,
>that the other Verbs and Essentials books uses it too.
Herman Miller said:
>Some of the older Teach Yourself books used variations of IPA; for
>instance, _Norwegian_ by Ingvald Marm & Alf Sommerfelt
Josh Brandt-Young wrote:
>Two that come immediately to mind are _Teach Yourself Catalan_ by Alan
>Yates, and _Grammar of Contemporary Bulgarian_ by Kjetil Rå Hauge. Both are,
>in my opinion, excellent resources. _Colloquial Albanian_ by Isa Zymberi
>does use IPA, but not entirely accurately. _Icelandic_ by Stefán Einarsson
>uses IPA (and boy do you need it with Icelandic), though I'm not sure how
>highly I'd recommend it...ah, yes, _Beginner's Lithuanian_ by Leonardas
>Dambriunas, though it doesn't have IPA per se, does have very complete
>descriptions using accurate phonetic terminology. William Radice's _Teach
>Yourself Bengali_ transcriptions come close enough to IPA that it probably
>belongs in this list as well
And BP Jonsson warned:
>Though he [Stefán Einarsson, author of _Icelandic_] used |q| for [G]
>according to long-standing Danish and Icelandic practice.
Finally, bnathyuw mentioned:
>hugo scots gaelic in three months
If people know of more books, Jake and I (and others, I'm sure!) would love
to hear about them. :)
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