Learning Spanish makes me feel like a teenager again. I can remember reading book after book and discovering all the new words. I remember the thrill of these possibilities and how I never looked them up but took note of them and got a sense of them as I came across them again and again. So that today it's rare for me to discover an unfamiliar English word.
And now I get to do the whole thing again! And at the end of it all, I'll have added another world of language to my brain. I'll get to read Gabriel García Márquez as he wrote, plus all sorts of authors never translated into English. With a bit of luck, I'll work out how to express myself in this new language, what possibilities it holds. The only thing is, I hope my enfeebled memory can do the job.
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- fional
- Fiona is a proud Tasmanian who now calls Chile home. Both Hobart and Santiago sit beneath mountains, but the mountains are very different and their cities too. With God's help, Fiona will help her Chilean sisters make sense of the Bible, get to know its Author better and learn what it means to live as loved, forgiven people.
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2 comentarios:
hefega4oh wow I cant even read Gabriel Garcia Marquez in English some times ( note 100 yrs of solitude) so a big good luck & good work on your Spanish!!! ps, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Colombian :) I know thgat you know that but every Colombian would say that even if you knew, to make sure, & in case someone is hearing that doesn't know :P)
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