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Do you read often in foreign languages? | ||
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| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5140 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 33 of 75 14 April 2010 at 5:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have yet to read anything in French or German.
However I often read and write Latin, sometimes Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5149 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto | Message 34 of 75 14 April 2010 at 6:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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I guess I use English the most, since I use it on the internet a lot, but I also have to read the occasional article or book as part of being a university student.
Other than that, I recently began re-reading "Der Steppenwolf" in German to reactivate my skills, and it helps that it isn't too difficult, i.e. I can read it without relying on a dictionary, which I might not be able to do with just any German book... Other than that I read a little Serbo-Croatian, but that's mostly beginner's texts and the occasional newspaper article, and even then I still have to rely on a dictionary. It'll be a little while before I can tackle any great works of literature in that language. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Piotr1981 Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 5034 days ago 26 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2 Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 35 of 75 29 July 2010 at 11:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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I read literture in English as often as I can. Fortunately, there is a Brithsh Council library in my neighbourhood so I can drop in anytime and find something interesting.
The other language I would like to start reading literature in is Spanish, but it seems that no library in Poznań that I know of stocks books in thit language. If you include non-literary texts, such as articles, Internet-posted texts etc, I read them daily, although mostly in English. Sometimes I also read newspaper articles in Spanish (mostly from "El Pais" on-line edition) but I don't do it on regular basis. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Derian Triglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5109 days ago 227 posts - 464 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Czech, French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 36 of 75 29 July 2010 at 1:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My everyday use of English consists of:
55% reading (internet), technical documentation 40% watching online videos (e.g. YouTube) 5% writing in forums 0% speaking Occasionaly, I may read something in German, Russian, Italian or Spanish if I visit a website in one of these language. But that's very seldom.
I know plenty of passionate literature lovers who learned a language in order to be able to read literary works in the original. Edited by Derian on 29 July 2010 at 2:01pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5141 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 37 of 75 29 July 2010 at 2:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I read mainly in foreign languages, primarily Japanese, French and German (but I am trying to read novels in Spanish and Italian). However, a colleague recently lent me an English novel, (I have not read English novels since ages) and I am so pleasantly surprised by how much faster I could read in English, compared to other languages - 120 pages per day!
It did make me wonder, if I were to read all my novels in English, I might have read/covered more novels and literature! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6569 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 38 of 75 29 July 2010 at 2:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ditto. I ain't learning Classical Greek so I can ask for directions while backpacking. 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Derian Triglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5109 days ago 227 posts - 464 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Czech, French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 39 of 75 29 July 2010 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6466 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 40 of 75 30 July 2010 at 11:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
It really doesn't count. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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