Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Herman Miller wrote:

> >
> >Ray.
>
> What's weirder is that I still collect Teach Yourself books and similar
> language texts even though I know I'll never have the time to learn all
> these languages. I must have nearly 40 languages by now, and I'm fluent in
> none of them! Even when I was trying to learn them, I rarely got past the
> seventh chapter in any of those books. Now I don't have time to learn even
> one language.
>
Teach Yourselfs are great! Sometimes they are hilarious, like the old
Teach Yourself Turkish (hardback), which had our Turkish trainee virtually
rolling on the floor, others, like Teach Yourself Sanskrit are actually
the best introduction to the language available.

I didn't like the new, black covers with the larger size, though. Those
small blue or blue/yellow ones were so incredibly handy, and  their
catalogue is still quite extensive.

http://www.teachyourselfbooks.com/foreignlanguage.html reveals 151 titles,
including fun languages like Zulu and Maltese (although they also put Feng
Shui, Buddhism, Body Language and Islam amongst the foreign languages),
but they appear to have dropped Sanskrit!.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt