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Dorothy Parker

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Dorothy Parker

Postby nadir » Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:51 am

I watched a film called: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
I liked it a lot (that is why i post this at all).

I barely know american literature (to be more exact: non-german literature). A couple of - most famous - names, but not who, when, based on whom, etc. And, of course, in a non-native language you don't fully get everything (lol: i often got hard times in my native language).
Anyway: I think here writings were good too (from what the film quoted).

Gotta love the local library.
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Re: Dorothy Parker

Postby golinux » Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:37 am

Sounds like you had a good day!
May the FORK be with you!
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Re: Dorothy Parker

Postby nadir » Fri Jan 17, 2014 9:05 am

Yes, indeed. And i wasn't even prepared for it ....
(It's been a few good hours, but that is nitpicking. In fact it have been 2*few-good-hours, as i watched the film a second time. Tough English, for someone like me ...).

Really worth watching.
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Re: Dorothy Parker

Postby dzz » Fri Jan 17, 2014 12:42 pm

For sure, some Englishmen around here don't have nadir's understanding of English! (puts my German to shame)
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Re: Dorothy Parker

Postby nadir » Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:20 pm

Thanks.
We could always train your German.
I didn't learn much English at school (school was ok, but i was lazy). At 30 i didn't know what to read anymore, so i started to learn English. I read books (Sherlock Holmes, Jack London and similar books). That was quite exhausting (i had to use the dict so much). Then i used audio-books. That was a bit better than books, as you could hear it again and again, and get used to the phonetics (bit harder than reading though). Then i discovered film-DVD's, and used German subtiltels. I think that is the best approach of all (i then switched to English subtitles). Then i started with computing, and Linux gave me the chance to use English settings (seeing it every day helps a lot, but you only learn a very few words and they all are computer related).
What i miss is a chance to speak it in real life.

Just in case anyone plans to learn any language (short version: i would go for films and watch them with subtibles).
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