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Gunter Kuhnle
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:57 pm
Post subject: Reading aloud |
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Hallo,
I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to read literature aloud
to practise speaking and - for me as non-native speaker - get more used
to the sound of the language; perhaps a little bit like Demosthenes.
What kind of text could you recommend? Monologues from Shakespeare's
plays are surely a good start, but is there anything more recent which
could be recommended? In German, I would probably recommend Kleist - in
my opinion the author of superb German - but alas, my knowledge of
English literature is rather limited.
Thank you for your comments,
Gunter
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John of Aix
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:08 pm
Post subject: Re: Reading aloud |
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Gunter Kuhnle wrote:
| Quote: | Hallo,
I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to read literature
aloud to practise speaking and - for me as non-native speaker - get
more used to the sound of the language; perhaps a little bit like
Demosthenes.
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Seems like a good idea to me.
| Quote: | What kind of text could you recommend? Monologues from Shakespeare's
plays are surely a good start,
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I wouldn't, better off using something with more modern English
| Quote: | but is there anything more recent which
could be recommended? In German, I would probably recommend Kleist -
in my opinion the author of superb German - but alas, my knowledge of
English literature is rather limited.
Thank you for your comments,
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Perhaps Dickens, there are all sorts of characters with all sorts of
speech types as well as the good prose of Dickens himself. |
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:21 pm
Post subject: Re: Reading aloud |
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"Gunter Kuhnle" <gk-usenet@kuhnle.co.uk> wrote in message
news:slrndmp7gu.1o0.gk-usenet@kuhnle.co.uk...
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What kind of text could you recommend?...
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For modern English texts, I would recommend anything written by:
Graham Greene, George Orwell, Daphne DuMaurier,
E.M.Forster.
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