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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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
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.
"English Grammar for Students of Italian" taught me the basics of grammar (nouns, verbs, etc) that were removed from the Australian school curricula.
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++.
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.
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
I love this. Can you still buy this somewhere?
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
come on over to the cool dead languages, they're almost all like this
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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