Hi everyone!
Let's start talking about books!
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Hi everyone!
Let's start talking about books!
It seems we have a really new forum section! An international one!
Welcome! :mrgreen:
Thanks Dark. You're the best. Your tireless dedication towards our forum is simply unfathomable!Quote:
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Thanks!Quote:
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I've just learned a new word
Here I'm!
Can I ask you a tiltle?
I would like to read a novel in english.
I have some request.
This novel must be new for me, easy to read, nice and short.
Thanks.
(Sorry, my English is very standard and poor)
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Try with:
Allegato 3906
Donna Leon is an American author who lives in Venice. Her books, although their setting in Italy, were never translated in Italian (but they’re available in every other European language and country).
Donna Leon’s novels follow the different criminal investigations of Commissario Brunetti trough Venice’s channels and bridges, but above all hopping from a cliché about Italy to the next. And this, I think, is a major point of interest because it’s always refreshing to perceive how foreigners see us.
Ok!
It's a detection story. Very good. I love it. There is also a love story? I love it too.
@
Mauro, my friend, do you want follow me in this adventure?
The blackcat books are not bad (http://www.blackcat-cideb.com/). They are school books divided in three levels (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced).
I've read "Frankestain" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde", I also used them for teaching in my private class (ah! Good times).
Otherwise, I suggest you "Eat, pray, love". Nice book, easy to follow, without too much details which make the story difficult to understand.
Another possibility is to read books meant for children or young adults, whose language and plot are simplified.
I read a lot of them. Allegedly because of my work, but in reality I love them and I enjoy very much reading them.
Try with this one:
Allegato 3936
Holly Smale, Geek girl.
I found it light and witty, with some autobiographic inspirations, that quite easily come through.
I have the pleasure to inform you that I started to read my english novel.
At the moment I arrived at page 60, but I think that I should come back, because my reading it's too fast.
I'm going to explain what I want to tell you.
When I began to read, I translated all the words, I was very slow. Boring reading.
Than I decided to increase fastness of my reading, so With a pencil I noticed only the unknown words. Miracle! the number of misterius words was lower.
In that moment I decided that I'll never looking for the sense, and since that moment I have been finisced to understand my novel.
Now this is my level of English, but, I hope, at the end of my reading Will be better.
Great!
You're brave and i like it!
Which book are you reading?
About this novel
1 I have already read the italian translation
2 I saw the movie
3 it's the fist one of a trilogy
conclusion (?)
often my words go with the wind
today, page 140
Stieg Larsson's millennium trilogy?
I quote Mauro. :mrgreen:
no, it isn't. I prefer read a english/american writer.Quote:
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You're right! You do well!
Is it maybe ""Fifty shades of grey"?
It's my turn to quote you :well:Quote:
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This is my incipit.
" There is one mirror in my House. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway uspstairs. Our faction allow me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third mounth, the day my Mother cuts my hair.
I gave up and i searched it, but I won't spoiler it :mrgreen:
Ok. Another Pieces for the other people.
His hand grip my arms, but he releases me a moment after I stand upright again.
"Thank you" I say.
We stand in a platform ten feet above the ground.
around us is an Open cavern.
"can't Belive it", a voice says from behind him. It belongs to a dark - haired girl with three silver rings througt Her Right eyebrow. She smirks at me. "A Stiff, the first to Jump? Unheard of"
"There's a reason Why she left them. Lauren." He says.
his voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's your name?
"Um... " I Don't Know Why I hesitate. But Beatrice" Just doesn't sound Right anymore.
"think about it" he says., a faint simile curling his lips. "you Don't get to pick again".
A New place, a new name. I can be remade here.
question:
which 's name Beateice choise?
this novel has a simple english. Good, for me. :)
I've read something more about this novel
Spoiler:
And I've found it very interesting. It could be a future reading for me (in italian), because if I've to try to read something in English, I prefer to start with a novel thet I've already read in italian
Yes! Mauro! You' re Right!
to translate I use this app WordReference, very good!
two days ago I found Donna Leone's novel, Uniform Justice.
this is the incipit:
Thirst woke him. It was not the healthy thirst that follows three sets of tennis or a day spent skiing, thirst that comes of the body's desperate attempt to replenish liquids that have been displaced by alcohol.
after these words I thought: I know this thirst!
a question... is it normal repeat three times Thirst in the same sentence?
One month ago I became to watch movies in original language at the cinema.
My English is the same. Eh eh. All the movies have subtitles, so it's easy follow dialogues.
I wached:
The damish girl
The Room
Hail Caesar!
Bridge of spies
One royal night out
The Bridges of spies is in very simple english. Ok. I read the subtitles too, but Inside me I thinked " thiat level is easy!"
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Why not?
The sentence describes a situation in a very clear way.
It could be right for me to re-start watching movies in original language ... if English or American of course.Quote:
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Let me ask you a thing... have you noticed english films dubbed in italian sound different now? you can feel the dubbing even in the trailer, can't you?Quote:
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the only thing I noticed is that my sight is good and also I can read and watch in the same Time without problems! :yeah:Quote:
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"Message to the People: a course of African philosophy" A must read, apart all the racist stuff a great book about self improvement.