Re: Language Lessons
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 1, 2001, 15:13 |
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Amanda Babcock wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:11:53PM -0400, Herman Miller wrote:
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> > There ought to be a middle ground. Sometimes I get impatient with all the
> > touristy stuff in the more recent Teach Yourself books. But some of the
> > older ones, back when they had the blue covers, were forbidding and dense
> > with linguistic trivia. (Arthur H. Whitney's Finnish one comes to mind.)
>
> Wow. Forbidding? Wow. I've wanted that book for ages. I didn't buy it
> when it existed, and then suddenly all those (useless-seeming to me) travel-
> guide style books were out, and the blue covers were all gone.
>
I have thg Finnish one (also the Portuguese and Russian) of that series
with the old yellow cover.
If that matters at all...
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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