English Literary Books
[I tried to write this entry as formal as I could, but if you think a word, phrase or sentence should be changed or written differently to really become formal, feel free to do so]
It's been a while since I've decided to start reading some English Literature books, but it's been a lot more complicated than I've thought it would be previously, and the sentiment is not quite pleasant.
I picked up "Anne of Green Gables" to read last week, and the first thing I noticed was the enormous amount of unknown vocabulary. There were a lot of words that I'd never seen in my life, that are probably exclusive for literary books, and that I would had to learn one by one if I wanted to be able to read it. There were also various grammar structures that I simply couldn't comprehend, and that really made me feel as if I did know nothing of English.
It's completely different from what I'm acostumated to just by reading articles on internet or listening to podcasts, and I have no idea on what should I start to do to be able to read this superb book effortlessly.
However, somehow I'm not upset. A little bit sad, maybe. I'll verry probably just put it back on the shelf and try to find one more suitable for my current knowledge and, then, sometime try to read it again.
I'm not sure on what should I read, and since I have a great interest in Linguistics it would be great for me to read some books involving this subject, but I really want to try something more challenging. I have some friends who are great connoisseurs of Harry Potter, so I could give it a go too.
Thank you.
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Hey! Your writing was great; the things I changed in my correction were very small. Something that came to mind was that Anne of Green Gables was written over a hundred years ago, so since language changes over time, some of the words you had trouble with might have been language that has fallen out of use since then, because it seems like you've mostly been practicing with more modern material. It might be a good idea to try reading shorter historical texts before you try a whole book. For really short stuff, the website "Yesterday's Print" posts vintage newspaper clippings, and after you're comfortable with that, you could look into short stories or whole newspaper articles. In the meantime, if you're interested in other coming of age stories, you could try Holes by Louis Sachar, or for other historical fiction you could try The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
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English Literary Books
[I tried to write this entry as formally as I could, but if you think a word, phrase or sentence should be changed or written differently to really become formal, feel free to do so]
It's been a while since I've decided to start reading some English Literature books, but it's been a lot more complicated than I've thought it would be previously, and the feeling is not quite pleasant.
I picked up "Anne of Green Gables" to read last week, and the first thing I noticed was the enormous amount of unknown vocabulary. There were a lot of words that I'd never seen in my life, that are probably exclusive for literary books, and that I would had to learn one by one if I wanted to be able to read it. There were also various grammar structures that I simply couldn't comprehend, and that really made me feel as if I did know nothing of English.
It's completely different from what I'm accustomed to just by reading articles on internet or listening to podcasts, and I have no idea what should I start to do to be able to read this superb book effortlessly.
However, somehow I'm not upset. A little bit sad, maybe. I'll very probably just put it back on the shelf and try to find one more suitable for my current knowledge and then, sometime, try to read it again.
I'm not sure what should I read, and since I have a great interest in Linguistics it would be great for me to read some books involving this subject, but I really want to try something more challenging. I have some friends who are great connoisseurs of Harry Potter, so I could give it a go too.
Thank you.
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Hi Ryan. Your writing looks great. If you are interested in linguistics, I recommend a free course on an website called Coursera. The course is called "The Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics."
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