Polyglot Bookstore Adventure!
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I could spend hours browsing in the foreign language section of the bookstore❤️
Same 😩
-Abigail
+Polyglot Progress hi I also wont to learn language i need practice it is my facebook mirlannbek keneshbekuulu please subscibe me
Me too if you're there.
@@PolyglotProgress Excellent video.
The unfortunate thing about that is that a lot of foreign language sections are only a few shelves long like that one. Now, if the entire bookstore were solely language learning books, then we'd be getting somewhere.
you know Matt, I really don't get why "not their organs, but like their mind" didn't become more popular than "don't judge a book by its cover"
I stand in the language section for probably an hour doing the same thing 😂😂😂
" أحببت هذه المغامرة ... واصلوا تقديم المزيد "
Now you a have a dedicated native Arabic speaker fan :D
Greetings from Cairo, Egypt.
I miss Borders--they had a huge, great foreign language section in my area. Now there are only small bookstores here that probably barely keep from going bankrupt. There is no pleasure greater than browsing in a good bookstore, but lately I find myself buying foreign language books online--mostly Amazon.
a paradise... I wish I could be there .
In the US, the list price of a book is the last four digits of the smaller barcode (if that barcode begins with a 5): So 50899 costs $8.99 and 51995 costs $19.95. You can try that out the next time you're gallivanting at B&N and you don't see a price tag (like the French novel Abigail was looking at).
Oooh I didn't know that! Thank you!
-Abigail
The Hamilton soundtrack in the background 😍
Barnes and Noble always has it!
- Matt
...For me in the language section of a bookshop, it's more like "Oh my god! I've never seen a book for
Well, and in Germany, I'm already over the moon when they have half a shelf full of language learning books...like, in total, not for each language. I order all my books from Amazon, because there is no use in actually entering a physical book store.
You guys are officially my favorite polyglot youtubers omg. I really enjoy watching your videos and they're inspiring me to study my target languages and separate time for them. You're both so adorable and funny and I'm low-key sad we don't live close cause i feel you guys would be fun to hang around with and practice languages with. Hopefully maybe one day i can meet you and it would be rad as heck. Keep up the videos!!
Geraldine Rodríguez I’m new to languages what is a polyglot 🙈🙈
@@brookemcivor9328 A polyglot is someone who speaks more than two languages fluently, like for example, three languages, or more. 😃
Although I've been struggling with German, Spanish and Esperanto, yet when I see the blazing colors of these language resources, my love for these languages is revived especially German.
Hey Guys! This is super late, but I love learning languages too! I don't consider myself a polyglot, but I hope to be one day. I have been studying Spanish for 6 years, Russian for 8, and have just started Icelandic, Hebrew, and Swedish.
I live in Portland, Oregon and my absolute favorite bookstore is Powell's. the whole store takes up 4 city blocks! Their language section is 6 or 7 rows or shelves easily 20 times as wide and twice as high as the language section in this video.
They have a website and there is no sales tax on purchases! I would highly recommend you guys check it out.
I easily spend all day when I go.
And sometimes I can find books as cheap at $7 for novels by Tolstoy in Russian for certain editions!
Let me know if you check it out.
It also has many languages including many Native American and African languages.
So if you can't find resources elsewhere, they might have it!
Good Luck
And keep up the good work!!
Augusta
thank you so much for the bookstore! i just googled their website and i was searching for Japanese, and i found so much stuff!! thanks a lot!
We had in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) a book store, named "Intertaal". (taal = language in Dutch). In that store you could find only books and materials to learn languages. A real paradise for an ployglot.
Chineasy (the cute hanzi book) has an app!
I go to used bookstores and thrift stores. I have found 90% of my language books in thrift stores !
I usually buy my Korean books online. I have very limited resources where I live so I have to search online for mine.
I love looking in second hand book stores for my language books, lots of people like the idea of learning a language then loose motivation and give their books to the stores. I've found some great deals there.
My library has a book sale with books donated from people in town who don't want them anymore. The language section isn't very big compared to the sale as a whole, but considering you can fill up a paper grocery bag for $10 I always take the opportunity to stock up on language books! This year I couldn't go, but my mom got me some crazy stuff I can't buy at regular bookstores like books in Swedish and a Pashto dictionary!
Polyglot Progress I'm trying to learn Swedish at the moment, sadly the books available are quite limited. Complete Swedish, Swedish Tutor, and From English to Swedish 1 and 2 are fairly good. The Bridge and Blue Eyes are great sources for audio practice, the music is great too.
Congrats on finally getting the German Tutor book, Abigail. I always do that with any language book. I think about whether I want it, walk around with it, look at it, but in the end I usually end up putting it back.
The first thing I look for in my language resources something that's not in English, which for me means probably in French. Ever since I learned French it's been a sort of adoptive mother-tongue; not because I was adopted by someone who speaks French, but because I have adopted French as the instruction language for the following langues. I do have to admit though that this methodology has totally sucked all the fun out of bookstores, but reading in English is rarely worth my time (it's gotta be a darn good book). I've used Assimil's French courses for Russian, Italian, and now Hebrew. I will probably start using Russian more to learn things as I improve, but my English just doesn't need the practice.
I totally relate to this. I've adopted German as a semi-mother tongue for myself so much so that I often pretend its at the same level as my native English XD But at the same time I'm often afraid to ladder my languages in a manner like this (though I'm totally intrigued by it and would do it in a heartbeat to be honest). When I was last in Germany I bought a book (auf Deutsch) that is a course teaching Plattdeutsch! I am SO excited by this and I am so excited to dive into it and I will definitely post an update on here once I have a definitive answer as to how I feel laddering languages! I also think I'm more inclined to ladder languages like German and Norwegian because of how similar they are. For example in my Norwegian videos when I forget a word I will say the German one because its often close enough, whereas with my French I don't have another Romance language to throw in there (unless you'd count what Esperanto I can remember!) I look forward to hearing how your Russian goes and improves! Good luck with your learning!!
- Matt
When I first started learning Russian (via French) I found that it helped me complete the goal of not translating mentally into English (which is just annoying and cumbersome once you can understand well). Translating a translation (RU>FR>EN) was entirely unnecessary so my brain would finally settle for French as a means to understanding Russian (or anything else). I think that separating my thoughts from my native language was an important feat because now I can "think in" any language I'm trying to speak, even if I really can't speak it well. I've learned to bypass the English filter to my brain. Doing something fairly difficult in an acquired language, in my case another language, helped me do that.
That's just one reason I advocate "triangulation" (which IMO more aptly describes using multiple languages, not simply an L2) in language learning.
- Jonathan
I’m always meaning to do this, I started doing a duolingo German course but from french instead of English and it really helped keep me from translating back into English
¿Pueden recomendarme un libro a leer en español? Yo prefiero leer la literatura clásica.
Omg y’all so nerdy and I love that so much 💖💗
I'm refreshing my German as I watch this and Hamiltoooooon
HAMILTOOOON
I know this video is pretty old, but I have a Chineasy book and absolutely love it! I got very excited when you picked it up
-Mandi
I ended up getting it from Matt for my birthday! I still haven't used it but I have flipped through it a lot and it's such a cool book!
-A
I love the suggestive way your talking about books
In einem Sprachlernbuch finde ich wichtig, dass es Audio hat, sei es mit CD oder Download. Außerdem sollte es generell viel Input bieten. Texte mit Übersetzung und Anmerkung zur Grammatik. Ich brauche nicht unbedingt explizite Regeln, aber wenn eine neue Struktur auftaucht, finde ich kurze Erklärungen sehr hilfreich. Zusätzlich mag ich gerne, wenn es hinten ein Wörterverzeichnis ALLER Wörter, die vorkommen, gibt.
Zur Zeit lerne ich täglich mit einem Ungarischbuch von Assimil, welches mir ziemlich gut gefällt. (Der Assimilmethode tatsächlich zu folgen und dann zu glauben, dass man viel lernt, ist meiner Meinung nach Wunschdenken) Da die Audiosachen von Assimil immer schweineteuer sind, habe ich sie mir nicht gekauft. Zum Glück habe ich aber auf Memrise genau den passenden Kurs gefunden, um auch die Aussprache zu lernen.
Übrigens: tolles Video, ihr beiden!
I want to have a friend I can a go to the bookstore with and look at language books😂
I wish I could find so many language books in the Romanian bookstores.
Yay! I was so happy to see there was a new video of yours! ^_^
What I look for in languages books is: less focus on the grammar and more focus on active learning :) Because of that I quite enjoy the Assimil method and books that have sentences translation exercises.
Best of luck with Arabic! :)
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*Get yourselves some Assimil books... they are the best resources. Also, you may or may not be able to find them online for free through reddit, hint hint.*
Oh, you guys I loved your channel! :)
What I look for in language resources/books is a nice combination of grammar and vocabulary with phrases usually said in the language, a lot of examples and exercises with their respective answers. For example, I bought a book of Japanese a couple of years ago but it turned out that half of the book was FULL of practice sheets of hiragana and katakana, while the other half was composed of dialogues and exercises without the answers -____- Anyway, it was VERY VERY expensive and of course I didn't know that it was shitty before buying it because it was closed and in our libraries you can't look through them if they aren't open xD I haven't started learning Japanese yet so that's sad.
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I always get my language books from the library first. I've been so excited about a book before and have gone to use it and been dissapointed and moved on to a differant resource
Those Teach Yourself language Tutor books are brilliant. 😃
I ordered the Swedish Tutor one from Amazon for a cheaper price and it has helped a lot than any other Swedish grammar book.
The Swedish grammar book that Matt showed us, as well as another Swedish book, both of which I found on Amazon before I come across the Tutor book are not the best and they’re old books from the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Regarding the languages mentioned in this video, there is a Norwegian Tutor book, a Danish Tutor book, an Italian Tutor book and a Spanish Tutor book too. 😃
Cool video. You guys from Eastern Mass? I'm from Western Mass and was just doing some research on some of the most spoken and useful languages in the state. Thankfully I've already got my Spanish on lock and Portuguese at a conversational level. You guys kind of convinced me to go buy some new books so it looks like I might need to pick up some stuff in Haitian Creole.
I had to read L'Étranger for class last semester! I also buy Japanese books but never get around to studying Japanese. A funny one you can look at is Making Out in Japanese. I bought it because it was suggested by a TH-camr who said that it's good for learning colloquial phrases in Japanese. It has some silly things in there and I've enjoyed trying to read the phrases to my boyfriend haha Not everything in there is about relationships. It has all kind of content! Great video! I totally nerd out every time I go into Barnes and Noble and look in the language section. Finding a good book is hard. Also, I've gone in the kids section to see what books they offer in Spanish (or other languages if there are any) to practice my reading
Please tell me that I saw a Basque flag in that poster in the room. Pleeeeaseee!! That would be amaaaaaziiing!! But seriously, if you ever think of learning Basque don't. I'm a native speaker and when I talk I don't do it right so... hahahaha
I honestly highly recommend WaniKani for Japanese kanji specifically. Based on the videos I watched Abigail seems to prefer reading comprehension over speaking. It's a big of a slow start due to the Spaced Repetition System but it's really helpful with learning useful kanji and vocabulary for reading comprehension. I've been studying Japanese for three years in high school and I've done two short Japanese homestays and WaniKani has really helpful with my reading practice.
I love this video u guys should make more or Going to buy language books
This was fun, just hearing you chat about your language books ^_^
If you end up using Painless Italian I'd love to hear if you like it! There is this book outlet I sometimes go to and every time I'm there they have Painless Spanish and that's one of those books that I never get but always regret afterwards. I went there again today and again I didn't buy it xD And it was so cheap that it wouldn't really matter if it was a shitty book :p
He said ask 'how' to go to the bathroom. Why are you asking that in a foreign country?
L'Étranger is a super easy book to read! If you have a B1 level in French, it can be a nice reading. A great book, which you can find FOR FREE in the internet.
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Wunderbar
The language section in the book stores I know aren't nearly as big. xD
(And wow... Hamilton was playing in the background the whole time! I'd love to visit a store in which they play musical soundtracks although I wouldn't be able to focus on the books, I suppose xD)
This was my local Barnes & Noble, most I know are very similar in style but mine seems to have quite the language collection! xD
- Matt
You're lucky. xD
I order most of my books on the internet because my local book shop has a very small shelf with language books. They don't sell most of the languages I am interested in (although I didn't expect them to have Finnish or Scottish Gaelic xD) and when they do it's boring tourist stuff. I don't live in a big city, so that's probably why they offer so few good books. Another reason is that there aren't as many great resources for language learning in my native tongue (German) as in English.
But conplaining somewhere on the internet won't help. I'll just have to look out for a good book shop the next time I visit a bigger city.^^
hey I have a quick question.
how do you guys deal with shyness when speaking to stranger if you are shy lol
also have a great day and love your videos!!!😄
We both are VERY VERY SHY! This is something that is totally different for each and every person. Whenever we are out in public and hear a speaker of one of the languages we speak we get super excited but then we both freeze up! For example: We were in a store the other day and heard a woman speaking French on the phone, once she hung up I kept asking Abigail if we should speak to her and started to kind of speak amongst ourselves in French (which is what I typically do when I hear a language and know what another person is speaking for certain). Sadly we didn't have enough courage to speak to her but most of the times I'm out with family and we come across somebody speaking a language I speak, oftentimes my family will go up to them and be like "Hello! My son thinks you're speaking German and would love to speak with you" And then I get super embarrassed and try to run away.
So yes, this is something both of us need to work on quite a bit! A TH-cam polyglot who has NO FEAR speaking in public is Moses (his channel is laoshu5050000) and he is an absolute inspiration for me when it comes to speaking to people in public!
Thank you so much and good luck with speaking!! Shyness is so difficult to overcome but it is definitely possible! :)
You guys are awesome and your interest and enthusiasm for language learning is so admirable - and cute! I look at you and see a mirror image of myself in that respect. I'm 42 and have been like this since I was about 8 so you never grow out of it I don't think. How old are you guys and are you both studying languages for degrees at university? I'd love to email you guys and chat about languages in more detail if possible? I speak Welsh, French and Spanish and have learned the basics of many others over the years such as Arabic, Finnish and Russian alphabet. Hope to chat!
It's so nice to hear that it's something you never grow out of!
I'm a double major with a BFA in film production and a BA in languages and culture (with a concentration in French), and Matt is still in high school but is going to be a BA creative writing major and hopes to add linguistics as a minor or possible second major! We're currently both 18, though I'l be 19 in a week.
-Abigail
One book I hear a lot about is the Practice Makes Perfect series. I've seen it for every other language except Korean. I'd love to have a book from them if they made it.
I really want to get the Korean Grammar in Use textbooks but they’re £30 or more and I can’t tell which one I should get... it’s so frustrating.
You keep scanning by the Korean section and it's so tiny. That makes me so sad, as I'm learning it now.
How in the eff did you guys find a swedish book at barnes and noble? Lmao I have stopped at like 3 different barnes and nobles where I am in search of swedish books and had to end up ordering online! But wow you guys are fortunate :)
If you guys are ever in Boston go to Schoenhofs you will actually die
Oh dang you guys mentioned it at the end 😂😂
Abigail has a gift card for the store and we are planning to travel there very soon!! I feel like I'd need to save up quite a bit so I don't go bankrupt upon entering the store xD
- Matt
Polyglot Progress Schoenhofs just officially closed today! I went yesterday- everything was 60% and 70% off so I went crazy but unfortunately- the store has just closed for good 😭 they're moving online though, but it's not the same.
We know! We wanted to go before they closed but only learned about a week before 😭
-Abigail
Does anyone know if the Complete Living Language series is any good?
Nice to see some laoshu fans
I would love to be there. Here in Peru, we don't have that variety of books and languages. I would love to find Turkish books. Here it's almost impossible
The ten minutes book are actually pretty good
I have one for Japanese
I have polish tutor and I find you really need to be an advanced beginner to use it.
Oh my god!!! i'd love to spend all my money with grammar books!! but where i live there isn't much books to learn languages i guess.. and its too expensive... 😭😭😭
I relate to this so so much! Luckily we live in a day and age where there are so many great resources available online!
- Matt
are you talking about Schoenhof's Foreign Books? i love that store but it closed down in March
We were!
-Abigail
1.29 made me lol 😂
hey guys i just sub!
QUESTION: Free online books maybe (idk any good sites) ? Where can i get books in Portuguese?
Did you like the books? That's my hobby... buying language books and using them... when I have the money.
This is one cool language channel, how many languages do you guys speak each? I'm starting French and Urdu, then next year Arabic, all the best to you from West Yorkshire England ✌
Are you guys familiar with the Living Language series? If so, what do you think of it? I bought the Italian edition and highly recommend it!
We are only familiar with the name but due to the price we haven't been inclined to buy any of their products yet. Though I was holding Living Language Dothraki and was very tempted to buy it the other day...
Glad to hear that you recommend it! I'll definitely consider it!
- Matt
Shout out to Easy peasy chineasy.
This bookstore is Heaven for every polyglot! Where is it located?
For me it depends on my level in the target language. If it is a beginners course, I prefer either a book in English or in Norwegian, my native language; however, if the target language resembles another language that I study, I will try a book that only uses the language I am learning :) If it is an intermediate course, I prefer books solely in the target language, unless that language uses another alphabet :P
+littlesunflower7 I really would love to try more books in the target language! That's how my French textbook was this year and I highly enjoyed it! I have a hard time finding books like that though :(
-Abigail
Yes, I can understand how that might be hard, though considering how many different languages are spoken in the US, it shouldn't be :/ If you're open to buying on the internet, I can recommend Vía Rápida from difusión (Spanish), though this is an intensive course and not an indepth one. As for French, CLE international has a series called Grammaire Progressive du Francais which I believe has books for all the levels :) both come with Cds as well!
So cute.. greetings from South Korea
I use thriftbooks.com !! They have colloquial books for cheap and audio online!! (they have a colloquial 'arabic of egypt' for $3.59 right now!!) although sometimes they don't have the audio cd for some language books, they have really good prices and I've been able to expand my language book collection because of them!! XD
Maritza Martinez I love thriftbooks! I've thought of trying it for language-learning too but never got around to it! I've used it for other things though and think it's a hidden gem!
Hello fellow language learners! 👋🏾 I was wondering if anyone has done an immersion program for Spanish and could recommend a program for me?
HAHAA 'your a tourist in this country, ask HOW to go to the bathroom'☺☺☺☺
Can anyone recommend some good French, German and Korean books I could get on Amazon/Barns and Noble please??
We love anything by Teach Yourself! Also I made a video of my favourite French resources, most (if not all) could be purchased on Amazon!
-Abigail
Thank you so much!! I really appreciate it. I'm going to start french in high school, do you personally have any recommendations where to start? When you're beginning from scratch?
Matt used Teach Yourself French to prepare for starting French in school, and ended up starting in a sophomore or junior level class instead of beginning French!
-Abigail
where is that bookstore located? which city in?
6 Months thinking about a book
اكتر اتنين مساكين يذاكرو لغات كتير و مو قادرين يلمو بأي لغة
مالهم اي فيديو وهم يتحدثو بأي لغة غير الإنجليزية
لقب بوليغلوت او متحدثين عدة لغات صار هدف
I have Chineasy, it is a good coffee table book :) You guys are lovely and I think we should be friends haha.
... Barnes and Noble is playing Hamilton. Was their intention to start a mass flash mob?
日本語はきれいな言語ですね！僕がだいすきです。haha i don't know a lot of japanese yet, but it's the main language i'm focusing on - it intrigues me more than a language like french or chinese (i have spent so much $$$ on french books that i don't use...) edit: 10:00 haMILTON IS PLAYING OH MY GOODNESS
This Barnes and Noble literally always plays Hamilton lol
-A
yeah dude, go for Langenscheidt, its also my favorite. there is also Pons and Hueber, actually almost the same, but for some reason Langenscheidt is most appealing to me. Liebe Grüße aus Österreich.
PS: I forgot about Assimil, those are awesome too.
I really want to get an Assimil at some point!! I was looking into getting Ungarisch ohne Mühe deswegen ich könnte mein Deutsch üben und gleichzeitig ein andere Sprache lernen!
- Matt
Ich lerne Türkisch mit Assimil. Kann ich sehr empfehlen. Allerdings wenn man nach bestimmten Dingen sucht, ist es nicht so gut. Da ist Langenscheidt und Internet besser. Dennoch, Assimil 1+ :D
stress only exists if you allow yourself to be stressed. i know that issue well though^^
just take it easy, you have all the time in the world. A wise saying which we use in Austria from time to time "ned stressn, vom hudln kommen die kinder" meaning "don't stress yourself, the kids come by hurrying" xD
how did you meet?
I'm Arab and I have English language exam tomorrow 😞
Hope it went well!
-Abigail
I found a 2 story bookstore in Burlington Vermont
Yoooooo
What's it called?
-A
@@PolyglotProgress Wow I didn't think you'd see this Hi!
I am pretty sure it was a Barnes and Noble
Love your videos!
What store is this? And where is this?
It's a barnes and noble on Long Island :)
YOU WERE IN THE BOOK STORE FOR TWO HOURS CAUSE YOU STARTED FILMING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE HAMILTON ALBUM AND LEFT SOMETIME AFTER ONE LAST TIME... why do I know this I have a problem.
+Josie Alyvia omg I don't doubt that we were there that long but the store never plays the album in order so possibly not 😂
_Abigail
Which bookstore is?
Barnes and Noble
where do you guys live?
At the moment we both live in New York!
- Matt
aw mannn....all the language learners live in NY...None in chicago
Heyy Im actually reading L'Étranger these days 😄 it's a great book!
Awesome! I'll definitely get around to it eventually!
-Abigail
Where's that bookstore?
Long Island, it was just a regular Barnes and Noble.
L'étranger! J'adore ce livre! Mais je l'ai emprunté à la bibliothèque. And there needs to be more Arabic representation in bookstores!
Chenise Calhoun Wow. I've been studying French for 2 months and I understood everything you said.
Is this the guy who speaks 20 languages? Also, the audio is very low, I barely can hear it.
He only speaks about 5 (or less depending on what level you want to count)! He's on his way though ;)
-Abigail
Matheus G. S. you're thinking of Tim Doner
Yes, I was. It is actually not him.
Why is he always interrupting her? Stop it please.
Are u siblings?
+Hi There! No
They are dating 😂
Please, please, either learn how to hold a camera steady or buy a tripod. Your video makes me feel seasick!
"not their organs"??? How stupid is that? Show the books!