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¡Hola!
Hi, I am learning spanish. I would like to read in Spanish, but all I have access to right now is Spanish subtitles on DVD's, I would really enjoy reading Spanish literature, or Mexican. Hope you can find some, if you can, contact me please, thanks in advance.
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Re:¡Hola!
Hola, bueno soy una chica de méxico. Me gusta mucho la literatura también. Si quieres leer algo sobre literatura te recomiendo a autores como Pablo Neruda y Alfonsina Storni. Ellos fueron poetas. Creo que leer poemas en español te ayudará, puedes buscar en internet y seguro saldrán páginas repletas de poemas de estos autores. También te recomiendo el Libro de Arena de Borges.
Saludos
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Re:¡Hola!
Hola! I am also learning Spanish, and I love to read as well. I'm currently reading three literature books by three authors whose works you may find interesting: 'Bodas de Sangre' by Federico Garcia Lorca, 'La casa de los espiritus' by Isabel Allende, and 'Cronica de una muerte anunciada' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Saludos
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Hi, I can send you some poems or some other kind of literature (very interesting and famous books) in spanish. So you can contact me as a memeber!.
Look for Witichis. Chao.
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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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