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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4713 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 9 of 20 11 September 2013 at 7:26pm | IP Logged |
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I just read one book at a time. Whatever language doesn't matter.
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| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5966 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 10 of 20 11 September 2013 at 9:24pm | IP Logged |
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I read one book at a time. I don't like how slow my progress goes if I'm reading multiple books. As with languages.
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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5106 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 11 of 20 12 September 2013 at 10:52am | IP Logged |
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I always read multiple books at the same time. I can't help myself, even in my native language.
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4850 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 12 of 20 12 September 2013 at 12:08pm | IP Logged |
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I tried reading one book at a time. It never worked out. Now, I'm always reading several books at the same time.
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4645 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 13 of 20 12 September 2013 at 1:51pm | IP Logged |
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I read one book at the time only if the book is so fascinating and interesting that I just can't let go of it, or possibly if it is a complicated intrigue where putting it away for some time to read something else could mean that I forget some essential details.
If not, I prefer to read several books at the same time, and preferably different genres and in different languages. Right now, for instance I am reading: - Danubio, by Claudio Magris, in Italian - Pale blue dot, by Carl Sagan, in English - Berlin Gothic 5: Nachts bei Max, by Jonas Winner, in German. Of course, I did not start all three at the same time. I'm almost done with Sagan, in the middle of Berliin Gothic and just read the first chapter of Danubio. The next book on my list is in Norwegian, called "Fyrsten" (the Prince) by Henrik Langeland. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4915 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 14 of 20 14 September 2013 at 2:15pm | IP Logged |
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I suspect that most of us have the same approach with books as with language courses. I am a person who starts a lot of courses/books, flits to others, goes back to others. Eventually I finish some, others I never look at again.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6603 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 15 of 20 21 September 2013 at 10:43pm | IP Logged |
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Ahem...
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5015 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 16 of 20 22 September 2013 at 1:41am | IP Logged |
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Well, that one is an extreme (thanks, Serpent. Now I feel like a normal person :-D ), but I usually read several books at once too, no matter the languages. I just grab what I feel like continuing with and I keep reading as long as I wish before switching. The only thing breaking the rhytm are the fees for late returns in the libraries.
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