[LMB] First book, second language OT:

B. Ross Ashley redlion at sff.net
Sun Jul 16 15:47:39 BST 2006


On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:34:20 -0700 (PDT), Azalais Aranxta <tiamat at tsoft.com>
wrote:

> What's the first book you ever read from start to finish in a
> language that wasn't your first?

> ~malfoy  :) 

I'm trying to remember whether we really read the whole of De Bello Gallico in 2nd year Latin.

In any case the first second-language book I actually picked up and read *on my own*, as opposed to required reading for a language class, was -El cantar del Mio Cid-.

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