As in, do you look up every single word you don't get, or only the ones that seem important? I personally am not looking up anything at all now in the Master and Margarita, and even when I do look up, it's only the words that seem key. Otherwise it would just get too maddeningly slow to read in any language other than Dutch or English.
But if you do that and look up everything, and if the French translator of LotR has found equivalents for all of Tolkien's antiquated vocabulary, it's no surprise it takes ages to read a page, it would for me too under those circumstances.
But if you do that and look up everything, and if the French translator of LotR has found equivalents for all of Tolkien's antiquated vocabulary, it's no surprise it takes ages to read a page, it would for me too under those circumstances.
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla
Ghavrel is Ghavrel is Ghavrel
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~Camilla
Ghavrel is Ghavrel is Ghavrel
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Books that take a long time to read.
03/08/2010 08:21:42 AM
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I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect...
03/08/2010 08:37:21 AM
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It's all looking up vocabulary. It should pick up. *NM*
03/08/2010 06:06:03 PM
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What's your strategy for that?
03/08/2010 06:23:55 PM
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The latter, but curiosity keeps winning out. *NM*
03/08/2010 10:55:50 PM
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Re: I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect...
04/08/2010 11:52:01 AM
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Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons.
04/08/2010 12:20:22 PM
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Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. *NM*
06/08/2010 06:56:34 AM
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Re: Books that take a long time to read.
03/08/2010 08:58:55 AM
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
03/08/2010 10:27:58 AM
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The unabridged Zohar in 23 volumes probably ranks up there.
03/08/2010 07:15:43 PM
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I'm reading The Lord of the Rings in French. Slowly. *NM*
03/08/2010 10:57:04 PM
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Why?
04/08/2010 02:14:44 PM
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Camilla's post above pretty much encapsulates it; I want to practice my French with something I know *NM*
06/08/2010 06:55:02 AM
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The Sound and the Fury
04/08/2010 02:51:40 PM
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