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Edited by Gill Burrell, Monday, 19 Sep 2022, 14:48

I am struggling to read my latest book 'Germinal' by Emile Zola because the language is quite difficult. 

Some words are old fashioned and not in general use anymore. Other words are more to do with mining terms. Although I did like the story very much the language is quite hard going.

 I know I should persist with it but I will just put it aside for now, perhaps when I feel more confident in the language later on, I will pick it up again. Anyway I got about halfway through it but found it frustrating, to have to keep stopping to look up words all the time!

Instead of reading the book I will watch it on  DVD first for the time being, which I also  happen to have in my collection.


The next book I have decided to read from my collection, is not too long or too difficult to read. It is a  paperback called 'L'enchanteur'  by Vladimir Nabokov.

Vladimir Nabokov is a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Russia, he wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin. 

This book is the french translation from the Russian.
I am finding the french language a lot easier to understand in this book,  and I don't have to stop so often, to look up words in the dictionary.

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