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| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5274 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes  Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 1 of 5 13 December 2010 at 7:07am | IP Logged |
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I am looking for some advice on constructing a reading list of native Spanish-language literature graded as levels
1-5, where Don Quijote and other hard stuff is a 5. I am currently reading the Bible and The Chronicles of Narnia in Spanish and am finding that I understand almost everything in the Bible and maybe 90% in CoN. I have no idea what level these texts are at, so when I finish CoN (and continue in the Bible) I'd like to start reading native materials and pick up vocabulary and expressions as I go through the material, without having to refer to the dictionary too much for basic understanding. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5263 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 2 of 5 13 December 2010 at 3:32pm | IP Logged |
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I find Isabel Allende's work and Aturo Pérez-Reverte's books less challenging than, say, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa or Gabriel García Márquez. I don't really know how to grade the difficulty on a 1 to 5 scale. I just jumped in at the deep end and kept swimming.
The first novel in Spanish that I actually finished was <<El amor en los tiempos del cólera>> by Gabo. I read a page first for understanding without looking anything up and then wrote down all of the words that I didn't know and looked them up. I was amazed at how many I had figured out from context, others were Colombianisms. García Márquez really helped me make a huge leap in my Spanish. It was tough going but I persevered and it was worth the effort. ¡Ándale! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alex_y Diglot Newbie Colombia Joined 5096 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, Japanese | Message 3 of 5 14 December 2010 at 1:48am | IP Logged |
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Podrías intentar con "el tunel" de Ernesto Sabato, si lo que quieres es familiarizarte con expresiones y vocabulario ( ademas de que no es una historia aburrida en lo absoluto)
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| aabram Pentaglot Senior Member Estonia Joined 5534 days ago 138 posts - 263 votes Speaks: Estonian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Mandarin, French | Message 4 of 5 09 January 2011 at 9:25am | IP Logged |
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I'm currently facing the same task, trying to find good graded reading material. I have
few books in line which I have roughly rated for myself as follows. 5 - Márquez's "Cien años de soledad", Rómulo Gallegos's "El forastero" 4 - Julio Verne's "La isla misteriosa" 3 - Tolkien's "El Hobbit", which I'm currently plodding through with dictionary 2 - Laura Esquivel's "Malinche" (short sentences, clear reading but dripping with pathos to the point of being annoying) Sure, Verne and Tolkien is not native literature, but at least they give me some headstart by being familiar stories. I don't realistically expect to go fully native Spanish before grade 5 books anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 5 of 5 10 January 2011 at 4:45am | IP Logged |
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If you don't mind repeating materials (sometimes I enjoy it more than reading new stuff), going for things that are available in the original, translated (but watch the quality), and abridged versions should give you a finely graded pool of choice for every title (easiest: abridged version in TL of something you already know, hardest: unabridged new stuff.)
Most fine literature is available in all these versions and should not pose problems with the quality of translations, etc. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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