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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5837 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 121 of 177 05 February 2011 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Jinx and other fans of the play "Leben des Galilei" by Bertold Brecht: I have googled a bit and found an instructive website written in not too complicated German with a summary of the play and further background information.
Have a look here: http://www.cdrnet.net/kb/data/de_brecht.asp Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6469 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 122 of 177 05 February 2011 at 8:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was really impressed by Jose Saramago's "Blindness" which I've recently read (in Spanish the title is "Ensayo sobre Seguera"). His "Evangelie Segin Cristo" is also on my list (NB: Though I read Saramago in Spanish, he originally writes in Portuguese).
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| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5837 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 123 of 177 19 February 2011 at 8:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I am normally not a reader of literature, but I decided to read two theatre pieces which have some reference to natural sciences.
1. Die Physiker (1961) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (< nuclear physics) 2. Leben des Galilei (1955) by Bertolt Brecht (< astronomy) Both books are very common "Schullektüren" in the German lessons at school in Germany. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5056 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 124 of 177 19 February 2011 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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"Putin's Russia" by Anna Politikovskaya
I don't know if it qualifies as practice in my target languages, as I already know English, but it is interesting to see how Russian is translated into English, it still doesn't sound English, I do however like the language of this book. "Pygme" by Chuck Palahniuk The newest Palahniuk book is written gramatically incorrect English, as told by an Asian spy, strange to read at first since the language makes no sense at first, but it's a brilliant and hilarious book. Did anyone else read these!? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cutter Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5345 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian | Message 125 of 177 25 March 2011 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Dostoïevski, Crime et châtiment
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 Slacker Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5443 days ago 62 posts - 99 votes Speaks: Spanish, English Studies: German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic (classical) Personal Language Map | Message 126 of 177 26 March 2011 at 2:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm currently reading "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer. It's about a regular Joe who became a master
memory champion with only about a year worth of training. Interesting story so far -- not sure if there is anything that can be readily applied towards language learning. -Slacker 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Miegamice Bilingual Pentaglot Newbie Latvia Joined 4976 days ago 32 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Polish*, Latvian*, English, German, Danish Studies: Norwegian, Swedish | Message 127 of 177 05 April 2011 at 9:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Miegamice Bilingual Pentaglot Newbie Latvia Joined 4976 days ago 32 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Polish*, Latvian*, English, German, Danish Studies: Norwegian, Swedish | Message 128 of 177 05 April 2011 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used to read several books at once in the past. Now I read one book ten and more times (I am a book translator), and (shame!) don't read much of anything else.
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