fictions – Spanish as a third language

2020-07-262020-07-15

10 Latin American novels for your reading pleasure

Spanish language learners in this time of COVID-19 may have more time in their hands to read. Some may yearn to read a good novel in Spanish but their proficiency level may not be quite there yet. But, there is value in reading English translation of great Spanish novels. Although the language is not original, …

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2020-07-162020-07-15

2 modern must-read classics

Two recent additions to my bookshelf: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) by Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian author, Nobel laureate in literature. This 1967 novel is my first foray into the ‘magical realism’ genre, often associated with Latin American literature of that time. Novels of the genre are based on real-world settings …

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English and Chinese are my first 2 languages, fluent by my standard, one acquired and the other my mother tongue. Spanish is a language I'm learning by choice. I believe that my prior experience in learning a second lanaguage will help me for the third.

Language learning is always hard, sometimes even unbearable without a personal interest in the underlying culture. This blog shares about Spanish language and culture learning.

I live in Canada. Because of geographical proximity, this blog will have a Latin American bias.