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| Casting about for some motivation to get on with my German, and someone the other day recommended Goethe's Faust, with the comment that he would consider it worthwhile learning German just to read Faust.
Dunno if he's right or not - I haven't read it yet - but that's got me thinking...
What book do you reckon would it be worth learning English to read? How about French? Urdu?
Have you ever learned a language to read a particular book or author?
I'll start... I think it would be worth learning Irish to read Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain.
And I have learned French - what sorry scraps I know - in order to read a particular 'book.' Many years ago, in a frenzy of shareware acquisition, I accidentally installed a French security app on my programmable calculator (I know...) only to find that (1) it came preset with a default password, unknown to me, and (2) the user's manual was entirely in French. (The word, as I found out after several evenings' hard glossing with a dictionary and Teach Yourself French book from the public library, was "PASSE".) | |
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Spanish: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Memoria de mis putas (sorry) tristes" I loved the book.
I have read The Faust in English and was impressed so I am guessing in German it might even be better
