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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 17 of 60 07 May 2012 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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If someone is interested jw website offers books in several languages
jw files I especially reccomend 'my Bible stories' (one with Egyptian women taking care of Little Moses on the photo) It's writen for children "do you see the picture? what is here lacking? yes, it's a human", so it's easy to follow. Anothr thing is Jesus Films A 2 hours movie in an astounding number of langages. Someone from this forum found out about this website before, on link forum. aozora bunko - free Japanese books, you can just copy them and download to your e-book reader. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 18 of 60 07 May 2012 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
I recognize that a lot of people like to read fantasy books, but this thread is about particularly *easy* novels, and it has to be said that the average fantasy novel is a lot harder than the average non-fantasy novel, because of the broader vocabulary range. If you choose a fantasy novel as your first book in a foreign language, maybe you understand 80% or less of the words (until you learn them), while you'd understand 90% of a different genre right off the bat. This is something to consider in your choice of first book. You can say that you love fantasy so much that it's worth the frustration, but maybe others' preferences are less strong. When I had trouble working through a fascinating historical novel in Italian and almost thought that I just wasn't ready to read authentic books yet, I tried a detective story and found that it was super easy in comparison. It was nowhere near as fascinating of course, but it gave me enough practice reading Italian and enough additional vocabulary to tackle my original choice afterwards. Anyway, if you're ready to read some fantasy in German, the most well-known German fantasy author is Wolfgang Hohlbein. Some of the books written by him alone are dark, if you want to be sure to get a feel-good story you could try books written in cooperation with his wife Heike. Their most famous work is the Märchenmond saga, a core of 3*500 pages or so, with a lot of peripherals available, just like LOTR ;-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5730 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 19 of 60 07 May 2012 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm trying to think of books I read between 5th-8th grade, because I think that's the level most of us want to stick to. The book will use easy vocabulary, but the story will still be interesting because the readers can handle more adult issues.
English: Little House on the Prairie: The 9 book series covers Laura's life from a 4-year-old to her first four years of marriage. There are also spinoff series that cover her daughter's life (Rose Wilder Lane), and Laura's mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. An interesting series if you like American history. Cold Sassy Tree: A book about a 14-year-old boy living in the Deep South at the turn of the century, with the main problem of the book being his 57-year-old grandpa marrying a woman 20 years younger than he is. It's pretty funny, but it also has some sad parts. His grandpa dies at the end, the girl he has a crush on marries an older man, and the woman his grandpa married reveals she was sexually abused as a child. I read it in the summer of 2000 for required summer reading. No Promises in the Wind: A book about two brothers who travel around trying to make money during the Depression. I stayed up 2 hours after bedtime when I was in 8th grade to finish the book, it was that good. It even has a Polish song in it. To Kill a Mockingbird: I didn't like the story, but it's a classic I read in 8th grade. The court scene and the scene in the woods after the school function are the best parts of the book. The Good Earth: I actually read it in college, but my instructor said it's on an 8th grade reading level, and it wasn't that hard to read. It's about Chinese peasant Wang Lung and his family trying to prosper as farmers, which after some hardships, they do. I don't know if any of these books have decent translations in other languages, but if someone wants something easy to read in English, those are my recommendations. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 20 of 60 07 May 2012 at 6:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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時をかける少女
the girl who leapt through time It was one of my first Japanese novels (or the very first), and it was easy to read, quite simple vocabulary. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 21 of 60 07 May 2012 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks for the advice, Sprachprofi, I'll be ready for my first German book at the end of
summer, I hope. But other than that, I still believe some fantasy books (such as Le livre des étoiles I have recommended) are suitable as the first book. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6440 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 22 of 60 08 May 2012 at 12:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
It really depends more on the author than the genre, in my experience. 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| mountains Newbie Norway Joined 4594 days ago 12 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 23 of 60 09 May 2012 at 7:57am | IP Logged | |||||
At the moment anything that is fast moving and doesn't drag to much, not to complex in style and nuance. I've been reading comfortably at a teenage level but am ready to start with adult ficiton. Maby crime novels could be a good entry point, even though it's not my chosen genre in English. Watched a film last night from Stavanger, not the best choice for a first film to watch , as the dialect is quite tricky to follow. Words cut short and pronounced very differently to what I'm use to, if I didn't have norsk subtitles I don't think I would have followed very well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5220 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 24 of 60 09 May 2012 at 9:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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You'll find some easy Spanish podcasts here: includes a few proverbs/expressions on the page I've linked but the home page gives you current affairs if that is your bag.
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