Berengaria’s Comments (group member since Nov 11, 2021)

Berengaria’s comments from the Language Learners and Polyglots group.

Paul wrote: "Berengaria wrote: Congrats Paul on finishing your French novel goal! 👏 🏆"

No, no ... not quite yet...."

Ah, I saw that too late and changed it to PART of your French goal.😇 Still, half way: excellent!

I'm all about lighting fires, so that's really great to hear. 🔥 Oh, Roger Ackroyd will be so much fun in French! I read Christie's little known "At Hotel Bertram" in Spanish this year and really enjoyed it. Great language practice.

Paul wrote: "J'ai fini PRINTEMPS, la première nouvelle du livre de Le Clézio que j'ai choisi."

Congrats Paul on finishing part of your French novel goal! 👏 🏆

Paul wrote: "Is NEVERWHERE a graphic novel or the full original novel in French. "

It's the full original and yes, they kept the English title for the French edition. 😱 *shock* (I'm guessing because it's the name of a place and those are normally not translated in modern novels. )

Kalliope wrote: "Thank you to Berengaria for inviting me to this group. "

Welcome and you're listed! 4 in German it is. :-)

I'm very impressed with you all reading such highbrow literature, esp in French! 👏 Since I rely on my local free library for books, my selections are out of what has shown up in these languages, not necessarily what I'd pick to read if I could choose anything.

The only exceptions are the Icelandic and the John Grisham which, no joke, I've had on my shelf for 23 years since I bought it on a trip to Amsterdam and still haven't gotten around to reading. High time!


Icelandic:
1. Short Stories in Icelandic -- Richards (easy reader for A2-B1)

Italian:
1. Lo spaventapasseri -- Morchio, Bruno (mystery)
2. Lezione di Tango -- Modignani, Sveva (popular women's lit)

French:
1. La Folle de Maigret - Simenon (mystery)
2. Le café des petits miracles - Barreau, Nicolas (cute YA)
3. La mélancolie des sirènes par trente mètres de fond -- Brussolo, Serge (horror-thriller)
4. Neverwhere - Gaiman, Neil (fantasy)

Dutch:
1. Voorgoed betoverd -- Carland, Barbara (fantasy romance)
2. Advocaat van de Duivel -- Grisham, John (legal thriller)
3. Een eiland in zee -- Thor, Annika (middle grade fic)
4. Solo -- Eisler, Barry (thriller)
5. Godin van de jacht -- van Royen, Helen (chic lit)

Welcome to the 2022 Foreign Language Reading Challenge Status chat.

Here is where you can post how far along you are with your challenge, any questions you might have for others in the group (best way to learn vocab, resources, native speaker help etc) and general encouragement.

Let's admit, sometimes it really takes discipline to keep going with a new language. Getting pats on the back from others in the same boat makes it just that little bit easier! For that reason, make sure you tick "Notify me when people post" to this topic so you can keep up...or just drop by from time to time.

Introducing our group along with their country/native language & goal:

📚 Anna (Germany/German): 6 in French

📚 Berengaria (Germany/English): 5 in Dutch, 4 in French, 2 in Italian, 1 in Icelandic

📚 Calla (US/English): 6 books in/dealing with Arabic, 6 in French. 2 in Swahili and 1 in Mandarin Chinese.

📚 Dave (USA/English): 2 in Spanish, 1 in Russian

📚 Elias (UK/English): 52 in Swedish

📚 Fatima (Bahrain/ Arabic): re-reading 2 & reading 2 in Korean

📚 Iamthesword (Germany/German): 11 in French

📚 Jane (USA/English) : German, perhaps Italian. (exact goal undecided)

📚 Kalliope (Spain/Spanish): 4 in German, 12 in French and 12 in Italian.

📚 Lea (Germany/ German): five books in either Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, French or Spanish.

📚 Lenka (Czech Republic/ Czech) 6 in Spanish, and 1 book in German, French or Japanese.

📚 Paul (Canada/English): 1 easy reader German, 1 easy reader in Spanish, 1 novel in French

📚 Peter (Germany/German): English, Polish, Russian, Dutch, French and Italian (4 in 4 different languages out of these 6.)

📚 Rebecca (US/English): 12 in Spanish

📚 Sportyrod (Australia/English): 1 in Indonesian, 1 in Swedish

📚 Tau (Belgium/Dutch & French) 1 in Portuguese, 1 in German, 1 in Spanish, 1 in Afrikaans

📚 Vicky (UK/Greek) 1 in German, 1 in Russian

F wrote: "Will attempt to read this next month"

Hi F,
Your post is well over a year old, so you might not even be around anymore, but I am organising a Foreign Language Reading Challenge for 2022 myself and seeing if others are interested. (I'm not an admin)

I've added a post to this discussion group with all the details, if you'd like to check it out.

I hope the Korean Stories were a success for you!

Rebecca (pagescollective) wrote: "Hola!

I'm learning spanish and want to start attempting to read books in Spanish :)

Hola Rebecca! I see this post is about a year old, but I thought I'd answer anyway. I'm doing a foreign language reading challenge group for 2022. If you're still interested in attempting to read in Spanish, maybe it's an idea for you.

Myself, I'll be doing Dutch, French and Italian (Spanish I did this year) and the other interested people are doing mostly French and then Swedish and Indonesian.

I've added a post in this discussion group with the details of the challenge.

Hasta luego!