Re: CHAT: Book recommendations?

On 9/9/08, J R <tanuef@...> wrote:
> I'm looking into purchasing the following, and would appreciate any
>  recommendations:
>
>  1. A dictionary of linguistic terms
>  2. A grammar of Mandarin
>  3. A grammar of Tagalog
>  4. A Russian course
>
>  (should be in English, preferably!)
Late to the party, but I can recommend adding to any books you end up
getting with the appropriate Pimlseur CDs from a local library (unless
you're made of money, in which case go ahead and buy them). Of the
languages above, I've only done the first half-dozen lessons in
Russian, and the first one lesson in Mandarin, but Pimsleur's French,
Spanish, Czech and Ojibwe have all served me remarkably well -- the
latter as my primary source.

I imagine they'd have served me better were I as good at finishing
projects as I am at starting them, but that's clearly a flaw in me
rather than in the material.

I second the recommendation of Trask's Dictionary of Grammatical
Terms, by the way. Darned solid stuff, and always either on my desk or
the shelves right next to it.



Paul

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