We are fortunate to have such a wonderful local library -- the GULF BEACHES PUBLIC LIBRARY -- within walking distance from our home. As we were planning for the Fulbright to Macedonia, my daughter and I visited the library -- and checked out a variety (multi-media!) of resources about Macedonia. And -- if the books/DVDs/CDs are not available at Gulf Beaches, we have a wonderful PINELLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY COOPERATIVE PPLC, that quickly ships the materials to Gulf Beaches via the inter-library loan system. Thank you!
So far, we have enjoyed
--music CDs with folk music from Macedonia and from the former Yugoslavia
--language CDs -- the PIMSLEUR language series (our favorite! helped us to learn conversational Romanian and Russian before our Fulbright to Moldova...) We were able to use the Pimsleur Albanian language CDs (mirëdita! faleminderit! mirupafshim!). Unfortunately, there is no Pimsleur set of CDs for Macedonian. (We purchased an alternative on Barnes and Noble website)
-- a number of books about Macedonia and Macedonians -- everything from my daughter's favorite series (Who Was? Who Is?) about Alexander the Great to cooking books to illustrated dictionaries (in Macedonian -- a reminder that we need to brush up on our Cyrillic alphabet before we land in Skopje)
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