I hope we can use this tool to write and communicate in English all week long!
Things to be getting on with this week:
Choose a book and order or buy it. (Alibri, alibri.es, Casa del libro, casadellibro.com, Come in Libreria inglesa, www.libreriainglesa.com)
A field guide to the British by Sarah Lyall ISBN 978-1-84724-582-3, Quercus, 2008
Watching the English by Kate Fox ISBN 9780340818862, Hodder & Stoughton, 2005
The adventures of the English Language by Melvin Bragg ISBN 978-1559707107, Arcade Publishing, 2004
The English: A Portrait of a People by Jeremy Paxman ISBN 978-0141032955, Penguin, 2007
White Teeth by Zadie Smith ISBN 9780140297782, Penguin, 2002
Hi Felicity! I could not buy the book yet, but I have read about "White teeth" by Internet. I search by Google about it and I find a web where you can read the first pages. Well, I began to read it and, to be frank, some words are really difficult... Ok, it is a fiction novel. Nevertheless I think I am gonna read it. It's just 480 pages... it is a lot! Hugs, Lydia
ResponderEliminarHellou Felicity; As I told you I have some problems to find the books I had chosen. Libreria Inglesa won`t get them till to Friday. So I`m reading in the web something about the origin of the language. And the most important I`m learning to use this tool whit my daugther`s help !!!!It`s pretty difficult, much more than english !!!!!
ResponderEliminarHello Felicity! I agree with Carla about difficulties to find the books. I want to compare "White teeth" and the other book, that speaks about English like an human being. In Libreria Inglesa Come In doesn't have these 2. Therefore I had to run yesterday like a fool from there in Carrer Balmes to "Casa del Llibre" in Pg de Gràcia (in front of Casa Batlló aprox), where nobody help me to find a book and finally buy "White teeth" for 11 Euro (I want it a more economic version of Penguin). Wow, this book has 542 pages and little letters!! I think I am gonna die.
ResponderEliminarHi Felicity! Today I've started to write in my blog...i'm so tired and it's so complicated for me write something with sense...buff!! i'll try to buy my book this week...good night!!!
ResponderEliminarHello Felicity
ResponderEliminarI went to the Fnac to try to buy the book, but they didn'have.
anyway, they offer to me the possibility to ask for the book and they will send a msm to me as soon as they have.
I accept their suggestion. in a week I hope I will have the book.
montserrat.-
Hello Felicity,
ResponderEliminarI posted in my blog the following text. I'm just coping it to practice introducing a comment in your blog. The text is:
Do you know Murphy's Law? Most of you do. I think is relatively known over here. For some who may not know its definition is the following:
"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong".
From this -pesimistic- statement there are thousand ways to say it, some in a quite funny way. One of this is: "if a toast with jam and butter spread over falls on the floor it's always the jam side the one sticking to it".
Why I brought Murphy's Law about? Because this sort of determinism happened to me just this week. I decided to by book no.3 (Adventures of English) according to Felicity's list. My decision was very strong. I like sciences and linguistics are part of science. Thus I felt that book by far suited very well my own interest. Now Mr. Murphy came into play. I went to Alibri, Casa del Libro and Come in. Guess what happened. The book is not in stock anywhere and Come in told me a delivery delay of three weeks minimum!
I gave up my expectations and I got Jeremy Paxman's "The English", which seems to be written in a language level very suited for any of us. I'm fine with this book.
See you when again?, Mr. Murphy...!