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Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 16 Jun 2018 15:24
por pikoo
Hi guys :) Is someone currently reading or planning to ready anything in English? I need to practise for my exam in September haha :batman: :batman:

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 16 Jun 2018 15:35
por mariki
All my MCs this month are in English :lol: But they are part of sagas and I'm in the middle of them: Harry Dresden, The Seven Sisters, A Court of Roses and Thornes...

I want to start another one soon, if I can find some days between MCs. It's another trilogy, The Daughter of Bones (and something else, I don't remember the title :cunao: )

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 16 Jun 2018 23:52
por Bronia
I´m with Henry James´s classic novel "The Portrait of a lady" right now and I´m loving it even though it is a thick book. Before this I read Washington square, it was such a nice and smooth reading! just in case you want to try something shorter.

For my next english book I´m gonna try with an Hispanic author, I´ve never done that before! it seems weird but I have to give it a chance... let´s see how it goes.

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 17 Jun 2018 09:14
por pikoo
I have recently bought The picture of Dorian Gray, The jungle book and Maurice from E.M. Foster

Indeed with those I should have more than enough for now but if anyway wants to read any other thing I’m open to suggestions :)

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 04 Jul 2018 22:20
por Ratpenat
These english examiners are so cheap :roll:

They charge me 7 euros to send my certification home :evil: When I did the french certification they sent it to me from another country without extra cost.

Considering how expensive is the CAE, they could have included it in the price.

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 26 Jul 2018 15:20
por Dayra
pikoo escribió:Hi guys :) Is someone currently reading or planning to ready anything in English? I need to practise for my exam in September haha :batman: :batman:
Hi pikoo ! im just looking for a good book to practice English ,, i will need Speak English in my work , so i like when i can see that i speak better than before . Always growing up, not loosing some vocabulary etc...always better than before ! I like some books like “Cinder” for ex emple , it is an actual parody of the story of Cinderella .... but i prefer buy the 4 books that this collection content .. better than read on the screen ... its is my future christmas present ,, maybe , jajajaja
Best Regards,
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Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 16 Nov 2018 10:19
por Peloponesa
Hi all,
I am currently Reading "Peter Pan & Wendy" and have to say that is one of the most beautiful books I have read, I think. Not just the story but the language and the way of describing the scenes and characters. This is a paragraph from page 1, describing Mrs Darling:
"She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner"
It is a short book but not easy to read, and I am used to reading in English!
But if you want a recommendation, "The Guernsey literary society and potato peel pie society" is a funny and charming novel, and now the movie is on theaters the book is again available at book shops.
Btw, glad to find you now I am not working (they fired me a year ago)...I used to talk and write in English all the time and now I need practice to keep my writing skills :cunao:

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 16 Nov 2018 11:03
por DarkLady Juliet
Sorry you're not working, Peloponesa. But glad you found us :60:

"The Guernsey..." is a delicious book. And the one you're reading now, about Peter Pan and Wendy looks fabulous. That kind of books that make you dream while you read them, and put a smile on your face when you think about them.

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 19 Nov 2018 09:57
por Peloponesa
DarkLady Juliet escribió:Sorry you're not working, Peloponesa. But glad you found us :60:

"The Guernsey..." is a delicious book. And the one you're reading now, about Peter Pan and Wendy looks fabulous. That kind of books that make you dream while you read them, and put a smile on your face when you think about them.
I totally agree with you, DarkLady Juliet. And I think it is worth to read them in their original language if you can...nothing against translations, of course.
Thank you but don't worry about my job, I was burnt y depressed, now I feel much better :alegria:

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 01 Abr 2021 14:29
por Holmes
Lucy (in the sky with diamonds ;)), i see that the last comment of this thread is from 2018...
Does this mean that no one speaks/writes English here anymore, or is it that another thread has been opened that replaces this one?

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 02 Abr 2021 12:15
por Felicity
I don't think so...
But people prefer to speak spanish I guess
:P
I'm fluent in english, but writing is a bit more dificult, because of the spelling and ortography :lol:

Lazy Girl :cunao:

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 02 Abr 2021 17:40
por Holmes
Felicity escribió: 02 Abr 2021 12:15 I don't think so...
But people prefer to speak spanish I guess
:P
I'm fluent in english, but writing is a bit more dificult, because of the spelling and ortography :lol:

Lazy Girl :cunao:
Hi Lacy!
It happens the other way around to me ... I write it better than I speak it, because I have more time to think, and... because I don't work in a hotel, nor do I practice it as much as you do... :)

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 03 Abr 2021 14:13
por Kiraya
I partially live in English and I never recall we have this thread :hombros:
Thanks for —here we go— "necroposting" this one, @Holmes :wink:

I've chosen the term "necroposting" for I think it might be new to some of us. I do not feel old threads being bump up or resurrected as something negative. In this case I find it productive! :boese040:

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 03 Abr 2021 15:48
por Holmes
Kiraya escribió: 03 Abr 2021 14:13 I partially live in English and I never recall we have this thread :hombros:
Thanks for —here we go— "necroposting" this one, @Holmes :wink:

I've chosen the term "necroposting" for I think it might be new to some of us. I do not feel old threads being bump up or resurrected as something negative. In this case I find it productive! :boese040:
You're welcome :wink:

It’s normal that you do not remember the thread, nobody had been posted for years. I found it by chance, looking for something else, and surprised me that no one wrote, that's why I thought it was "out of order".

The term is perfect… in fact, I had read it in spanish as “necropostear”, and it means exactly that. In other forums some people say "reflotar", but I prefer yours.
And it also seems productive to me. There is no point in opening threads of the same topic, when everything can be unified in one.

Re: Do you speak english?

Publicado: 04 Abr 2021 20:11
por lucia
Holmes escribió: 01 Abr 2021 14:29 Lucy (in the sky with diamonds ;)), i see that the last comment of this thread is from 2018...
Does this mean that no one speaks/writes English here anymore, or is it that another thread has been opened that replaces this one?
I haven’t spoken in English for a time, but I still read and write now and then.