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Re:Thank you!
Delighted I could help. Please let me know what you think of the book when you've read it. It could make some interesting discussion in the Books/Literature board.
Cheers,
Mark
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Mark S.
February 15, 2005
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Latest: February 26, 2005
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Re:Spanish Books Esperanza Renace
¡Hola Mathy!
No soy de esos países, pero tengo un libro que he leído que es bastante fácil leer, y fue escribido, si no en México, al menos por una Americana Mexicana escribiendo en español sobre la mudanza de su familia de México a California. "Esperanza Renace" por Pam Muñoz Ryan es una historia verdadera, sobre una joven de familia rica que les perdieron todo sus tierras y dinero en lucha de clases, y tuvieron que ir norte a California para trabajar con los campesinos.
Es muy interesante, y aprenderá mucho sobre la cultura Mexicano y de la cultura campesino de California. Lo gocé mucho.
El libro también se hace en inglés con el título, "Esperanza Rising," y me gusta eso, porque cuando estoy leyendo nuevas cosas en español, es muy ayudante poder revisar el inglés cuando tengo problemas con el español.
¡Ojala que este es algo ayudante!
Hi Mathy!
I’m not from any of those countries, but I have a book I read that was fairly easy reading, and was written—if not in Mexico, at least by a Mexican-American writing in Spanish about her family’s move from Mexico to California. Esperanza Renace by Pam Muñoz Ryan is a true story about a young woman from a wealthy family who loses all their lands and money in the class struggle in Mexico, and who has to travel north to California to join the migrant workers.
It’s very interesting, and you’ll learn a lot about Mexican culture and about the California campesino culture. I enjoyed it very much.
The book is also available in English under the title, Esperanza Rising, which I like because it is often helpful to me when I’m reading new texts in Spanish to be able to consult the English in order to see what I may be doing wrong in trying to translate the Spanish.
I hope you find this helpful!
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA, USA
Miembro normal Hablando: inglés, español
Estudiando: español, portugués
Estudié: alemán, turco, chino mandarín
Jugué con: ruso, hebreo, latín, tagalog, francés, lenguaje por señas.
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA, USA
Normal member
Speaking: English, Spanish
Studying: Spanish, Portuguese
Studied: German, Turkish, Mandarin Chinese
Played with: Russian, Hebrew, Latin, Tagalog, French, Sign langua
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Mark S.
February 14, 2005
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Latest: February 26, 2005
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Re:¡Hola!
Hi Adam,
It sounds like you are on the right track. I've been studying Spanish actively for a couple of years now, and playing my movies on DVD in Spanish, both with and without the Spanish subtitles has been a big help.
With the books, I found it helpful to start easy by reading children's books: The Spanish Translation of Winnie-the-Pooh was a lot of fun, and it was very interesting to see how puns from the English were rendered in Spanish. A novel called Esperanza Renace, originally written in Spanish, was wonderful, too, for the enlightening picture of the lives of Mexican campesinos working in California.
I soon worked up to Spanish translations of the Harry Potter books, which, as Frauke Buero points out (message 43737, this bulletin board), are great fun in any language. From there I was into Laura Esquivel's Como Agua Para Chocolate, a very fine piece of literature; and soon I was reading Spanish translations of Shakespeare plays, and even La Poema del Cid, an epic poem written in the 13th century in Spain. I was amazed to discover that it was actually easier for me to pick up the Spanish of 800 years ago than it had been for me to pick up the renaissance English of Shakespeare's time.
Of course, all of this reading and watching DVD's in Spanish was very helpful for my developing fluency. But I also spend lots of time listening to the Spanish radio stations, I have several comic strips that I read in Spanish daily on the Internet, and I try very hard to speak Spanish with others whenever I get a chance. Speaking Spanish out loud feels like trying to write with my left hand--especially with native speakers: It's very uncomfortable. It makes my stomach knot up, and I feel miserably shy, which is a really weird feeling for a ham like me. But the only way to get over the feeling is to practice speaking until it goes away. And very slowly, it does.
Adam, I wish you and all of us who have the courage and the passion to do this very rewarding work all of the very best of joy and success!
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA, USA
Speaking: English, Spanish
Studying: Spanish, Portuguese
Studied: German, Turkish, Mandarin Chinese
Played with: Russian, Hebrew, Latin, Tagalog, French, Sign language.
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Mark S.
February 12, 2005
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Re:Litherature Lover
Mario ,i like reading books ,all of them !
Have you ever read book in Vietnamese ? i have some books in E ,and very much in Vietnamese . I speacially love literature China , English and American .My writer i like best is Jack London .And you ? What kind of book you like ?
I'm very glad to change or talk about books .
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Daisy
February 5, 2005
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Books with me
I like reading books , speacially literature books .When i was a child , i like reading , all of books .
Most of all book i've read in Vietnamese (because i'm a Vietnamese ^_^ ) but i like books written by American or English (as Jack London , Jules Verne ,Mark Taiwn ...) .I like reading tenology books ,too .It helps me to reduce stress , and i know more about the life although i'm only my home . I know about Euro , French , English ...about the poor life in 15, 16 century .Sometimes i 'm very merry but sometimes i cried . I was crying in a night when Remy was sold for strange person ...I can't live without books .
When i start learning English , i read books in English ,i like "Alice in wonderland " ,"Peter Pan " and "Oliver Twist " ... but i can't really understand all because my English isn't very well .Sometimes i wrote my feeling and critical about books in Vietnamese ,but i really want to exchange about them with foreign friend one day .
I very glad to exchange language with everybody about English and Vietnamese ,speacially about books .
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Daisy
February 4, 2005
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Latest: August 23, 2024
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Re:Re:I love Louise Labé!
Early French feminist, would anyone object if I said that ? Labe had a very liberal father for the times that were in it who believed that women should have the right to access education. Labe's poetry from what I have been able to read is much concerned with love but quite analytical and observational. I enjoy it too, but the French is slightly archaic, stemming as it does from the 16th century. Hope this helps, but I am no expert !
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S M.
January 25, 2005
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French Literature!
Hi i have been studying French for 6 years now, I am 16 years old and i would like someone to recommend any simple french literature for me to read, can be any genre,
any recommendations from any nationality appreciated :) thankyou Fiona
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Fiona
January 11, 2005
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Latest: February 16, 2005
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Re:What about Dostoevsky?
Well Claire, I have to say that I totally agree with you. Dostoievski is a great writer. He can place subjects like no one else. He his the kind fo writer that makes you think.
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Jota
January 10, 2005
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Latest: January 10, 2005
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Books
I like to read the last books that I read were The Da Vinci Code and Azul de Ruben Dario.
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Adriana L.
December 30, 2004
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Re:Re:Re:Re:Re 6: Discussion of Tolstoy and Tolkien books
The New Year is approaching fast. I have been reading The CHimes by Dickens. Its a relatively forgotten short piece of writing by the great storyteller, but truly marvellous too. I always associated Dickens with ghosts at Christmas, his work is crammed with ghosts and spirits and goblins. Its seasonal to read these stories and Dickens' true humanism is never old or wanting for wear. Have you read any John Stuart 'Mills' ? His work on Logic was my first taste. I was facinated by concomitant variations. His work on Liberty also. Mills was a Londoner as Dickens, they were moralists on their own terms. The thing about Dickens, is the warmth which he is able to communicate. There is so much that can be truly learned in Dickens. It beats the dry scientific empiric lot everytime. On page '984' of a popular edition of Mills a connection can be made with him. Before I wander off agian on a tangent, the purpose of writing a quick message was basically to say the New Year is here and greetings. Hot, hot puddings and joyous mails for the new year.
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S M.
December 28, 2004
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Latest: December 28, 2004
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