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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7146 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 97 of 177 29 August 2010 at 7:53am | IP Logged |
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Koirien kalevala by Mauri Kunnas (Finnish)
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| markchapman Diglot Groupie Taiwan tesolzone.com/ Joined 5462 days ago 44 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Portuguese | Message 99 of 177 19 September 2010 at 11:00am | IP Logged |
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Asterix in Portuguese.
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| Liface Triglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Lif Joined 5848 days ago 150 posts - 237 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Dutch, French | Message 100 of 177 20 September 2010 at 3:21am | IP Logged |
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Publieke werken by Thomas Rosenbloom. Supposedly it's considered one of the ten best Dutch books of all time. It's incredibly hard with lots of specialized vocabulary, because it takes place in the 19th century. I have to look up every 20th word or so.
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| argentum Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5191 days ago 15 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Russian*, Ukrainian*, English Studies: Italian | Message 101 of 177 20 September 2010 at 4:00am | IP Logged |
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I'm reading "Racconti romani" by Alberto Moravia, in Italian.
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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6773 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 102 of 177 20 September 2010 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
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I guess I've started dipping into 19th century Italian (Ottocento), although by
coincidence through the fact that I ordered a bunch of books based on which ones I could see were popular among other people. So I covered "Il Gattopardo", "I Malavoglia" and "Fontamara", the latter being the most enjoyable by some distance. In a library I stumbled upon a book called "An Introduction to Twentieth Century Italian Literature", which is a thematic guide to I guess the major modern works. I'm thinking that I'm going to stick with this for now and focus on the 20th century, because it's far easier to keep up with the language (although I Malavoglia, for instance, is already several steps removed from modern Italian). Once I build some muscle this way maybe I'll try to tackle earlier works. Edited by numerodix on 20 September 2010 at 5:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5371 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 103 of 177 20 September 2010 at 5:43pm | IP Logged |
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玄米先生の弁当箱
Interesting manga in Japanese about the culture of food and how we are losing it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fireflies Senior Member Joined 5171 days ago 172 posts - 234 votes Speaks: English* | Message 104 of 177 13 October 2010 at 3:22am | IP Logged |
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I am reading "Retrato en Sepia" by Isabel Allende in Spanish and "Ciao America! an Italian Discovers the US" by Beppe Severgnini (originally in Italian but I am reading the English of course).
The latter was compared to Bill Bryson's travel books which rank among my favorites. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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