Category: Books & Reading
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Comics and Language Learning by Jess
I love reading comics – I think they are a really fun and interesting way to learn a language. Personally, I feel that sometimes reading ‘bare text’ (i.e. words only) in another language can be difficult, frustrating or just, well, plain old boring. I’m learning Turkish and I find the sentences are really long, with…
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THE OLD WOMAN’S DAUGHTER AND THE OLD MAN’S DAUGHTER by Yuliana Savchuk
Yuliana retells us, in her own words, a Romanian folk story by Ion Creangă. Once upon a time, there was an old man and an old woman living together. Each of them had a daughter. The woman`s daughter was lazy, grumpy and cold-hearted, but because she was her mother`s daughter, she avoided work whenever she…
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My Ocean by Pat Tsang
My Ocean “Why don’t you buy an e-reader (electronic digital book reader)? It’s different from reading on a tablet. Trust me, you would love it.” My husband said. Even though my husband had said it repeatedly, I didn’t buy his idea. I need a good reason to justify my spending. But finally, the time…
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