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    1. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard May 19

      Years after it went out of print, the fact that this book exists still brings me such profound joy. Russian, fast, or fun: you can have one of the three.pic.twitter.com/j5UrtP2Pzv

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    2. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard May 19

      I learned Russian from Robert Baker's pitiless and unforgiving "Russian For Everybody", still one of the best language books I've seen. I remember one of the early model sentences was "Ivan Ivanovich has just returned from ten years in the north" and you knew not to ask questionspic.twitter.com/gZsmVnaxBw

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      Pinboard‏ @Pinboard May 19

      What are other people's favorite language books? Extra bonus for no pictures and just a relentless (but perfectly sequenced) wall of grammar

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        2. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard May 19

          There's also a series for learning English that I wish I could find again. It was impossibly British (think public school memoir written using the most basic grammar), went on forever about would/should, and lots of foreigners of a certain age have nostalgic memories of it

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        3. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard May 19

          My rule of thumb for evaluating language textbooks: flip to the preface, where they talk about the basic sounds of the language. If you see a cryptically labeled cross-section of a tongue and throat, you're golden. If they are talking about "s like in 'measure'" ,throw it back.

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        1. David Crawshaw  💉  💉  🎉‏ @davidcrawshaw May 19
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          "English Grammar for Students of Italian" taught me the basics of grammar (nouns, verbs, etc) that were removed from the Australian school curricula.

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        1. Robert Swiecki‏ @robertswiecki May 19
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          When learning C++ (2000 or so) I was dying reading Stroustrup's (I knew C at the time). Then, at a local train station I bought the cheapest book on C++, printed on a cheapest possible paper. When I got to my parents place after 4h train ride, I knew C++.

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        1. Yuri Litvinenko‏ @ylitvinenko May 19
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          I can vouch for Murphy’s Essential Grammar in Use. Can’t think of any other textbook which actually manages to make sense of English, provided you’ve learned enough English words before.

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        2. Pete Birkinshaw‏ @binaryape May 19
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          I had a Hello Kitty Japanese-English phrasebook that was very basic but genuinely very useful, and also made me (a large scruffy western man) seem less intimidating. Full of pictures. That's my limit.pic.twitter.com/Gv2uzD46bT

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        3. L.‏ @liamk_tv May 19
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          I love this. Can you still buy this somewhere?

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        2. Ryan Baumann‏ @ryanfb May 19
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          A favorite of mine is Janet H. Johnson's "Thus Wrote Onchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic", which on page one tells you you'll need two reference works in German and a knowledge of Late Egyptian and Coptic before you startpic.twitter.com/dpYl3uFb6o

          The basic reference works are Demotische Grammatik, by Wilhelm Spiegelberg (1925), and Demotisches Glossar, by W. Erichsen (1954); a supplement to the latter will appear through the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. These lessons are intended to give a person with some knowledge of Late Egyptian and Coptic an introduction to Demotic, including basic knowledge of Demotic grammar and an introduction to the script. They are based on the Ptolemaic period manuscript of the
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        3. Ryan Baumann‏ @ryanfb May 19
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          come on over to the cool dead languages, they're almost all like this

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        1. Tobias‏ @myvanity May 19
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          Makino and Tsutsui’s Dictionary of Japanese Grammar. Three times 600 pages, but each volume is A-Z, so you first have to guess if what you’re looking for is Basic, Intermediate or Advanced.

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