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Have any books ever disheartened you? | ||
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5525 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 17 of 23 13 November 2011 at 4:54am | IP Logged |
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The first Korean book I tried to read was Aekyung's Dream (a Korean/English bilingual children's book). I had been studying Korean for a few months when I first found it at the local library and was very discouraged to find that it was way over my head despite being in the "Easy" section of the library and being targeted at children. I tried the book again a little over a year later and it was ridiculously easy at that point (to the point that it was hard to figure out why I had so much trouble with it before). Of course, a big part of the difference is that my Hangul reading speed is *much* faster now than it was at that time. Thus back then, even the simplest reading felt difficult because I had to read it so slowly.
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5216 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 18 of 23 27 November 2011 at 12:27pm | IP Logged |
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I never gave up a book before I was 18 (my parents filtered all the crap out for me, thank God). The first time (can't remember when exactly) it was 'The unbearable lightness of being', precisely because I misunderstood my mother who had just read it previously. Years later it became a running joke and we always referred to it by an alternate title ever since, meaning it is the book what is unbearable. Fortunately it was in my language and I was 'old' already, so it did not stand the chance to damage my love for language learning, or reading in general. Now that I'm more mature...
It is always possible that you find you're not ready to read some book in another language yet. Try again later. Then again, it is possible you're not ready for that book, or that it is the kind of utter crap you'd never read anyway. In short: before going for a second round, check it out. Edited by mrwarper on 27 November 2011 at 12:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4878 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 19 of 23 27 November 2011 at 1:39pm | IP Logged |
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The book I'm reading now - En Bit Av Mitt Hjärta by Peter Robinson. The first page was mainly setting the scene and I could barely understsnd any of it. This is the second Swedish book I've read and the first one was aimed at teenagers, this one for adults. I had the thought of OMG why am I doing reading this?! I should stop reading it. But thankfully I didn't give up and the next few pages started reading like a "normal" book without the poetry of scene setting!
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| sbelskie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4787 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Serbian, French | Message 21 of 23 01 December 2011 at 5:02am | IP Logged |
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Not really a book rather a short story, but in class I had once to read "Der Bahnhof von Zimpren" and I am not sure if it was the style, I more think it was the vocabulary. After having read several novels in German that were pop culture or easier literature such as Hesse, I was really disheartened that I couldn't make it through most sentences without looking up a parallel translation. That was about a year ago. Would be interesting in see how I much I can read now.
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| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5163 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 22 of 23 02 December 2011 at 4:26pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, my engineering textbooks in college.
I didn't care for the Mohr's Circle or Cauchy stress equations then and I certainly do not care for them now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6587 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 23 of 23 03 December 2011 at 4:59pm | IP Logged |
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Pushkin's Boris Godunov... I was supposed to read it for school but I never did.
From foreign books, Tulitikkuja Lainaamassa comes closest. I have quite little left to read but it just feels like nothing's been happening for a couple of chapters. Though now that I think of it, maybe this was just my (stupid) choice to aim for 100% comprehension, with most rural/old vocabulary being in the glossary. Wow, this actually makes me feel like grabbing the book to read leisurely without looking up everything. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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