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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6159 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 6 04 August 2009 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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When I resume my Spanish study, I'm tempted to read, possibly L-R, Cervante's Don Quijote. However, I've read a few posts, by Hencke and others, that self dentistry is a less painful experience. What are people opinions on this ?
[EDIT - Changed back to Spanish spelling] Edited by DaraghM on 05 August 2009 at 9:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dbh2ppa Diglot Groupie Costa Rica Joined 5696 days ago 44 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Japanese, Sign Language | Message 2 of 6 04 August 2009 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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the book is great. it does, however, have some deprecated vocab and grammar, but not so much that it would be unintelligible to the educated Spanish speaker. (somewhat like shakespeare is to the modern English language, some expressions may be over one's head, but it's mostly understandable.)
i'd recommend you do a search in the fora, i'm sure "don quijote" has been discussed in several occasions already. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sandy Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5636 days ago 37 posts - 61 votes | Message 3 of 6 04 August 2009 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would rather read the books. Self dentisty is a very painful experience, but here in the UK we have little choice. Dentists are very hard to find unless you are rich. I often wonder if our difficulty learning other languages is due to our rotten teeth.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6711 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 6 05 August 2009 at 12:24am | IP Logged | ||
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I emptied a box room in the basement last week, and there I found some of my old books from my study time. That included at least seven volumes of Don Q in Spanish. I had a peek in some of them andt didn't find the language too difficult to understand. But it is totally unrealistic that I should ever want to read any novel in seven volumes in any language so I threw the whole lot out. And felt good about it. Edited by Iversen on 05 August 2009 at 12:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dbh2ppa Diglot Groupie Costa Rica Joined 5696 days ago 44 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Japanese, Sign Language | Message 5 of 6 06 August 2009 at 2:24am | IP Logged | ||
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... seven... volumes? who wrote the other 5? Miguel de Cervantes wrote:
"El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha" in 1605 and "El ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha" in 1615... and that's it... either the publisher of those books divided them into more volumes (which is ridiculous, given that neither is really all that long), or you had "sequels" written by other people. (It really is not that long). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6902 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 6 06 August 2009 at 5:13pm | IP Logged | ||
Ha ha, good one ! But I don't recall actually describing it as painful, just that it can get rather boring, a wasted effort, and probably isn't your most effective choice as learning material until you are at a fairly advanced level. On the other hand, if you are attracted by this particular book, it would be a pity to not give it a shot. Don't let anything I say hold you back. The importance of motivation should never be underestimated and as you apparently are motivated it might be totally different in your case. You can always try it on for size for a few chapters, I think it is even available on-line, and then decide based on you own experience. PS. The same goes for self-dentistry of course ;o). Edited by Hencke on 06 August 2009 at 5:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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