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Weird? Pretty much.
Regenbogen:
Oh, so it is true. 2 chapters. No! I won't read them. Not today and not tomorrow. I'm preparing my little one's room for school. Now everything is clean, and tomorrow I'm going to empty the old little school desk from the living room and carry it upstairs. This will do for the first two years. Her room is not big, I had to remove some things so the desk fits in.
I always wanted to learn Spanish, but in my school they didn't teach it. :'(
I took English, Latin, French and Italian (though the Italian class was a bit ridiculous, we only sang a few songs, and I didn't learn much. I only participated, because there was no Spanish, and they told me "So take Italian, if you want another language")
In school I wanted to become either a biologist, archeologist or translator. I tried to learn Polish taught by my grandmother, but couldn't get into it. Though I know some words and I mostly know how to pronounce what I read.
And lol, I know two Czech sentences. Took me 3 days in the metro in Prague to learn them. It's what the voice from the speakers says at each station. ;D "Please stop getting on or off the train. The doors close automatically. Next stop..." LOL I can say it, but I have no idea how it is written.
Dina:
That sounds great about the desk.
When I was a child, only the private schools had foreign languages in primary. When I left kindergarten I did the first year of primary school in a private school that had English but then my parents couldn't afford to keep me there, and they sent me to a public primary school that has not foreign language. Nowadays, almost all public schools teach English, some of them teach Portuguese, and in some provinces there are some schools that teach original inhabitants languages, like guaraní or quichua.
In secondary school I had English, French and Latin though. I can tell you, if you know Latin, French and Italian you pretty much know Spanish :).
Well, I am a biologist, and I also have a certification as "literary translator" from French, but my French is very, very rusty now. I dreamt about being an archaelogist too.
Oh, I've learnt a few words in Klingon too! And I can read some Portuguese but not talking or writing.
Doroga's Cousin:
--- Quote from: Regenbogen on August 28, 2020, 10:20:15 AM ---Oh. It's actually pretty good. It's about crime solving. And I like the main character. I'm glad I finally found something I can keep on reading. That doesn't mean, I don't like all the other books I have started in the past weeks, but they were not what I needed. I will read them at the right time. Or not.
Sometimes the taste changes or develops. Sometimes I suddenly like a story I didn't like ten or twenty years ago. Or I put emphasis on different aspects of a story than I did before.
So maybe I might give The Name Of The Rose another try someday. I was about 20 when I tried to read it. And maybe I'll give Hamlet another try, too.
But for now I am content with this new book, which I am able to continue in spite of the first chapter of Battle Ground only days away. ;D ;D ;D
It frustrates me when I don't read anything. And it always has to be fiction. And I have to like the main character or at least one of the characters, if there are several.
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Hamlet was very stuffy and overblown for me, honestly. Very much a Shakespearean tragedy but almost too much if that makes sense?
Dina:
I'll be honest, I have not read Hamlet. I've read other books, like Romeo and Juliet, Richard the V, and others but I never tried Hamlet or MacBeth. Perhaps one day
Regenbogen:
I've read Romeo and Juliet (was forced to in English class, but I surprisingly liked it, maybe because we analysed it for a few weeks, and my teacher was so enthusiastic she infected me somehow ;)) and Much ado about nothing.
A midsummer night's dream and Hamlet I watched in theatre.
And now I have to confess. I was weak tonight. I read the Battle Ground sample chapters.
I am alone this weekend. Nobody home but me. Now would have been a good opportunity to read without disruption, but the book isn't out yet. A pity.
And I got punished immediately. After reading the first lines in bed, I saw a shadow in the corner of my eye. There was a big fat spider sitting on the wall a few centimetres from my head. Scream.
I think the cat is getting old. The last few weeks we had an unusual amount of fat spiders in the house. The same happened when the last cat died. But she still catches mice.
All the cats liked to play with spiders and eat them afterwards. They seem to be tasty. But only a certain kind. And they move in an interesting way, when you hit them with your claws and throw them around.
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