BREAKING NEWS - New Barti Book

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Nero Higher Spirit
26 Dec 09 - 15:47
French, for most people, are their verbs. There's quite a few exceptions (though not as many as English). There's a few grammar rules and whatnot that require memorization, but how difficult French is always seems to be personal. While getting the right gender is always difficult for someone whose language has no gender, for me, it's always the preps that get me.

Anyways, Chinese is bloody hard. /topic
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26 Dec 09 - 19:30
Yeah, so many alphabets. BTW, the languages I know too (apart from English obviously), have the gender thing. So I don't find it difficult or anything. I just feel English is quite an inadequate language, compared to so many others. Especially when it comes to writing, as it has only few alphabets.
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27 Dec 09 - 05:25
Nero wrote:Chinese is bloody hard.
Agree. Totally agree. There are like, a million characters.

Japanese isn't very exciting actually, because it's structured (or at least we're taught it that way) and after a while the words start to blur together. And it involves the old Chinese characters, which can screw with your chinese after a while.

My Year One sensei was from Korea, and she was also learning mandarin XD
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27 Dec 09 - 06:36
11 months til new Barti book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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27 Dec 09 - 21:38
SevenPentacles wrote:11 months til new Barti book!!!
YaY!!!!!!!!! I just can't wait. Well... I'll have to wait till 2011, to read a translation that is not even half as good as the original :( ... but it's awesome, too :) . I'd like to read the English version, but it's really difficult for me to read in English, for some reason...
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28 Dec 09 - 05:12
aiReY-chan wrote:
SevenPentacles wrote:11 months til new Barti book!!!
YaY!!!!!!!!! I just can't wait. Well... I'll have to wait till 2011, to read a translation that is not even half as good as the original :( ... but it's awesome, too :) . I'd like to read the English version, but it's really difficult for me to read in English, for some reason...
Start practicing! You have a bajillion years. :cry:

Need... book... now...
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28 Dec 09 - 10:28
Do you go to an English medium school, airey-chan?
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Umbreo Utukku
28 Dec 09 - 11:25
could anyone give me an update on the new book? so its definately going ahead? any details as to storyline etc??
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28 Dec 09 - 14:35
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Do you go to an English medium school, airey-chan?
No. I go to a Spanish one.
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28 Dec 09 - 15:06
@Umbreo - Not that we know of.

@Rey - We'll help you practice. :)


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28 Dec 09 - 15:38
Umbreo wrote:could anyone give me an update on the new book? so its definately going ahead? any details as to storyline etc??
The only details we currently have are from Stroud's journal here: http://jonathanstroud.com/journal.html
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28 Dec 09 - 15:49
aiReY-chan wrote:
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Do you go to an English medium school, airey-chan?
No. I go to a Spanish one.
Your English is excellent then.
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28 Dec 09 - 19:15
Fuzzy wrote:@Rey - We'll help you practice. :)
Aww, thanks :D !!
n&b wrote:Your English is excellent then.
I'm glad to hear that :)
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10 Jan 10 - 18:36
Im learning Spanish (2nd year). The thing I find the hardest so far are stem-changers in the preterite and past imperfect tense...
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11 Jan 10 - 00:52
1) Welcome
2) Nice sig. I'm dying to see the picture.
3) I had two years of Spanish, didn't care about, and so didn't learn a whole lot of it.
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Kiyo Mite
16 Feb 10 - 13:27
Didn't see anything posted about this:
http://www.amazon.com/Ring-Solomon-Bart ... 423123727/

New Barti book is called The Ring of Solomon. The hardcover release is Nov 2nd apparently... but the audio book release is September 14th, so it could be that date as well.

"Bartimaeus, everyone's favorite (wise-cracking) djinni, is back in book four of this best-selling series. As alluded to in the footnotes throughout the series, Bartimaeus has served hundreds of magicians during his 5,010 year career. Now, for the first time, fans will go back in time with the djinni, to Jerusalem and the court of King Solomon in 950s BC. Only in this adventure, it seems the great Bartimaeus has finally met his match. He'll have to contend with an unpleasant master and his sinister servant, and runs into just a "spot" of trouble with King Solomon's magic ring.."

I kinda wanted a sequel though, not a prequel :(
16 Feb 10 - 19:44
:welcome: Kiyo!!
OMG YAYY!! HORRAYY!! NEW BARTI BOOK!!
But I wouldn't want the "original trilogy" to continue. It wouldn't be the same without Natty-boy!! I didn't even think I would read 'bout Barti ever again when I finished PG. So, a prequel is great, too.
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16 Feb 10 - 20:12
*squee*

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16 Feb 10 - 21:12
Kiyo wrote:Didn't see anything posted about this:
http://www.amazon.com/Ring-Solomon-Bart ... 423123727/

New Barti book is called The Ring of Solomon. The hardcover release is Nov 2nd apparently... but the audio book release is September 14th, so it could be that date as well.

"Bartimaeus, everyone's favorite (wise-cracking) djinni, is back in book four of this best-selling series. As alluded to in the footnotes throughout the series, Bartimaeus has served hundreds of magicians during his 5,010 year career. Now, for the first time, fans will go back in time with the djinni, to Jerusalem and the court of King Solomon in 950s BC. Only in this adventure, it seems the great Bartimaeus has finally met his match. He'll have to contend with an unpleasant master and his sinister servant, and runs into just a "spot" of trouble with King Solomon's magic ring.."

I kinda wanted a sequel though, not a prequel :(
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Chiz Ghul
17 Feb 10 - 04:38
W H A T!?!?! Ive been checking Strouds journal almost every day worrying if somethings wrong because no updates, and now this ^ up there. I am absolutly ecstatic, smilies almost dont work for this...XD XD XD ^_^
I still hope Barti is telling the book (ring of solomon) as if the Trilogy had already happend so we can get some more out of the tril

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