Maryla in Paris is doing 20 things including…

improve my english

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Untitled 4 years ago

It’s been a while since I came on 43things so I thought I might talk about my improvements in English.
Since last time I’ve re-read Eragon, and read the sequel : Eldest. I still think both are great books. I’ve also read HP 6 of course.
More importantly I’ve got a new methodology while reading english books : I try to look into a dictionary almost every word I don’t know and write them down. The result is I’ve got scores of pages full of words… But even if I very rarely try to learn them, I still remember more words than before.

This year I also have English class at the university (though it wasn’t my choice, it’s compulsory). We had to take an exam to see our level. I’m happy to say that I’ve reached level 5 out of 5, but it was only grammar and bit of oral comprehension. In class we’re mainly practicing oral expression. I hate that even though it’s the main thing that I lack :s I do quite a lot of reading but I know it’s out of laziness, and what I have to do is express myself (which I do a little here). Maybe I should find someone to talk with in English on the Internet. Anyone interested ? :p



Just finished the book 4 years ago

I’ve finished reading Eragon (see previous entry).

1) great book :) I like it better than the lord of the rings. More dragons and less prise de tête (someone helps me on this expression ? I don’t know how to say it en English :()

2) Hurray, I now know the words “saddle”, “quiver” and so on. Very useful in everyday life ;)
More seriously I hope I’ll remember some of those words… I also should have looked more of the unknown words in the dictionnary, but it would have taken me months to finish the book (and some of the words aren’t even in my dictionnary !).



Untitled 4 years ago

I’ve started reading Eragon.
Great book for vocabulary (= 17 words I don’t understand on page one).
sigh there are way too many words in English.



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