Friday, 8 March 2013

What is reading for me?

In Spanish

Reading in Spanish for me is a little bit like watching a beautiful picture or painting; but a different one each time. It is always inspiring, but in diverse ways. Sometimes it happens to be relaxing and so it inspires me to calm down when I'm stressed out; others it is nerve-wracking and it makes me want to write something to let the emotions go out; and some other times it is simply amusing, and this occasions I feel like talking to a friend or something more interactive; however, it never stops being inspiring... Like a good painting.  

In English

Reading in English for me is more like a didactic video game. I know it does not sounds very amusing, but it is: It is mainly a challenge, because of the unknown words and structures -like when you play the video game you like, but you can't level up. It is extremely fun because I feel at the same time the contradiction of  understand better the overall than in Spanish and because I love English -like when you know you can understand better the video game than your actual life, even if you still can't level up. And finally, I learn so much (vocabulary, structures, culture) that it ends up being like one of those didactic video games for little kids. 

In French

Reading in French is very stressful and confusing. My French level is not so good so I do not comprehend a lot of what the texts means, but also when I read, I need to write something most of the times; when I do not comprehend so many things, there is not much inspiration that can comes from it... And it is specially frustrating when I know there are so many great readings in French and I cannot comprehend them yet. So, for all of this, it has been like playing chess... It is very interesting, I would love to do it properly, but I feel frustrated because I don't know how; although I will learn.


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