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10-30-2007, 02:48 PM
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Re: Spanish Speakers: Recommend me some good Spanish-language books
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Consider learning Catalan. You're in Barcelona man! [/ QUOTE ] Not going to happen. Concentrating on Spanish and Italian at the moment. Barcelona and my Spanish will get along just fine. Oh forgot to mention another obvious choice which is obviously included: Don Quixote de la mancha 
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10-30-2007, 03:02 PM
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Re: Spanish Speakers: Recommend me some good Spanish-language books
Borges - Ficciones if you like El Aleph
Also, I was in a really similar spot compared to you when I took some classes in college. I could read and write better than most, and my vocab was great in written work, but when I had to speak in conversation, I would always revert back to safe vocabulary b/c otherwise I would stumble over certain conjugations, relatively unused vocab, etc. The thing that got me over the hump wasn't even speaking with a language partner. It was the mandatory tape recorder. Everyday we had to talk about something uninterrupted for 3-8 min, transcribe our errors, then roughly repeat what we said, making sure to correct the errors we caught. It might not help you as much as me, but something about it just clicked.
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10-30-2007, 03:25 PM
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Re: Spanish Speakers: Recommend me some good Spanish-language books
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i was also going to recommend garcia-marquez, but your spanish needs to be very, very good to read it untranslated. [/ QUOTE ] probably, but if he's reading borges, then it's not like it's much farther. and stretches are good for vocab and comprehension Matute - Primera Memoria Unamuno - San Manuel Bueno Martir Federica Garcia Lorca - Bodas de Sangre/La Casa de Bernarda Alba
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10-30-2007, 03:36 PM
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Re: Spanish Speakers: Recommend me some good Spanish-language books
Difficult texts are fine. That's where I'm going to learn even if I have to spend the 50% of my time reading a dictionary to figure out what the hell it means. Definitely don't hold things back because they are too difficult.
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10-30-2007, 08:36 PM
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Re: Spanish Speakers: Recommend me some good Spanish-language books
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[ QUOTE ] Consider learning Catalan. You're in Barcelona man! [/ QUOTE ] Not going to happen. Concentrating on Spanish and Italian at the moment. Barcelona and my Spanish will get along just fine. Oh forgot to mention another obvious choice which is obviously included: Don Quixote de la mancha [/ QUOTE ] If you are concentrating on Spanish and Italian, you'll pick up Catalan in your sleep si us plau.
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10-30-2007, 08:46 PM
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Re: Spanish Speakers: Recommend me some good Spanish-language books
Never read the book, but "The Motorcycle Diaries" was a very good movie. I'm sure the story would be compelling enough for a read.
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