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Ilayde wrote:So, do you remember your first experience of reading books in foreign languages? Am I the only person who got so excited about that? ;p
nighean-neonach wrote:For me it is always a sort of triumph to read a "real book" (i.e. not something specifically for learners, or for young readers, etc.) in a new language.
ILuvEire wrote:Where do you guys get these books!
Varislintu wrote:My first book in English was Polgara the Sorceress by David & Leigh Eddings . I was about 12-13, I think. I loved it back then, and the feeling that i could do it, and just the sheer amount of vocab I picked up! Oh, to be 13 and impressionable again .
ILuvEire wrote:Varislintu wrote:My first book in English was Polgara the Sorceress by David & Leigh Eddings . I was about 12-13, I think. I loved it back then, and the feeling that i could do it, and just the sheer amount of vocab I picked up! Oh, to be 13 and impressionable again .
Wow, how did you do it? I struggled through some points of that book, because he shot for being semi-archaic. But that's one of my favorite books of all time. Have you read the rest of the Belgiariad (sp)?
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