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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4670 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 1 of 10 10 October 2012 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm wondering what the standard books or parallel texts are for people's first attempts
at reading in their TL. In French there's a definite canon, at least for American students: it seems everyone starts with Le petit prince, and the standard first and second year books at college are L'étranger, Candide, and Rhinocéros (Ionesco). Is there a similar standard canon for other languages? i.e., what is the first German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, et al. book that students attempt? n1: I'm personally interested in Spanish at the moment, but think that a wider discussion would be more interesting. n2: I've seen discussions on most popular books, and best books, but not on the best first books - my apologies if this is a duplicate. Edited by kanewai on 10 October 2012 at 9:32pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6378 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 2 of 10 10 October 2012 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Russia the first books you are required to read in English tend to be by Oscar Wilde - the "fairy tales" and then Dorian Gray. (it's very common to read some collections of adapted short stories first) Later on Maugham is very common (ugh). We also had to read some Bernard Shaw at uni, and now I gotta read "The Great Gatsby" and I've already downloaded it in Italian :P
German learners all read "The Three Comrades" at some point, it seems. Children's literature is also very common, like Emil, Das doppelte Lottchen or Die Ilse ist weg. More ugh. I've heard "Komisario Palmun erehdys" and "Kuka murhasi rouva Skroufin" are very commonly used at Finnish classes in Russia. I have both (because you can get them cheaply here) but I've not yet bothered to read them... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4947 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 3 of 10 11 October 2012 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Georgian I may start with translations (Little Prince, Jules Verne's books, Lord of the Flies), but I've heard about Nodar Dumbaze's books from the textbooks I'm using, so I bet they're a good start.
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| atza Newbie Yugoslavia Joined 4047 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 4 of 10 23 March 2013 at 9:04am | IP Logged | ||
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With so many free ebooks on the internet I prefer to make my own parallel texts using nova text aligner
Here is a site with lots of parallel texts made with it: http://www.twinreads.com Aligner is free for long enough to make couple of parallel books and it exports to many formats even kindle and epub for ebook readers http://www.supernova-soft.com/c5/index.php/products/text_ali gner/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6684 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 5 of 10 23 March 2013 at 9:25am | IP Logged | ||
I have to speak up and defend at least "Das doppelte Lottchen" (no idea about "Ilse ist weg", though). It was one of my favourite books in my childhood, and one of the first books I read in German (which was entirely up to me) :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Steffen Newbie Germany Joined 4752 days ago 27 posts - 63 votes Studies: German* | Message 6 of 10 23 March 2013 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | ||
More reading, less ugh. Edited by Steffen on 23 March 2013 at 1:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4790 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 7 of 10 23 March 2013 at 3:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, the French choices are usually the most used ones. For English, it is usually Harry
Potter. For other languages, it is often a Harry Potter translation. For Spanish, it is quite often something from Isabel Alende but lately, Zafón's works for younger readers have become quite popular (and for a good reason). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6378 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 8 of 10 23 March 2013 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
Julie, my remark referred specifically to Die Ilse ist Weg. (Although we read Das doppelte Lottchen as 20 year olds...) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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