I am a fluent Spanish speaker who taught the language at the University of Iowa for a number of years and I hartily concur with the sentiment that Spanish books are for all of us, even us gringos. I do think, however, that having lists of new titles in English, Spanish, and any other language added to the collection would be useful for searching out in a more targeted way what one is looking for. All the best, Brian Miller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Gorse" <mgorse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:15 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: SEPARATE PAGES FOR BOOKS IN ENGLISH, BOOKS IN SPANISH, AND BOOKS FOR CHILDREN > Hi RIck, > > You make a good point about people studying Spanish. I took three years > of it in high school and went from getting B's to getting C's and D's the > last year I took it, and I think that a large part of the reason was that > there was a lot more reading, and I didn't have a good system to handle > it. I tried to scan the books, but it didn't always work well, and I > didn't have a dictionary that I could use (I think it would have helped a > lot if I did). > > -- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org -- > > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Rick Roderick wrote: > > > Hi susan, > > > > I totally agree with you. I don't speak Spanish, but I am glad to see other > > languages, the more the better. Many of our ancestors had to learn English, > > but this often took time. > > > > Another benefit to the Spanish book is the fact that people can use them who > > are learning or studying Spanish. > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to > bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.