Tuesday, March 16, 2010

bokredovisning - book presentation

As you may or may not know I am currently learning Swedish at a facility called Komvux. German is pretty similar to Swedish in a broad array of aspects. The swedish term for burn up is förbränna and in German that would be verbrennen. You see the similarity.
This very fortunate course of events brings with it something quite unfortunate, though - I don't make any friends. Every connection I establish is immediately severed by my quick learning pace. I tend to leave groups within a month to start with more advanced courses. I just hope that I will stop migrating soon and settle down somewhere where the teaching pace matches my personal speed.

I have recently started an advanced course which requires me to read and present a book within the next 10 weeks. That is a lot of time, some of you might say, but then you haven't seen me read, obviously. I'm a terribly slow reader - about 200 words/minute - because I can't help but read in the same speed that I would if I read aloud. It's like I hear my voice in my head, reading the words to me. That is, of course, only when I am reading articles of some sort. But either way, I am not fast and I am not proud of it. (I am sure if I were more used to reading I would read faster but I am just too damn lazy for that)

So in 10 weeks I am to present a book, as I said, and I chose to read the swedish version of Harry Potter in which wizards are called trollkarlar and Hagrid is a jätte. All in all I am getting through it quite well and it is a lot of fun, to be frank. But I still have to figure out what I feel, when I read the book. Because that is what the presentation is going to be about: what does the book mean to you? (eehhmm) Why did you chose to present it? ('cause it was the only one I read in Swedish?) etc. I hope I will come up with something, because the book is definitely not intetsägande (meaningless).

Wish me luck :)

3 comments:

  1. Jag är en trollkarlsjätte som kan förbränna intetsägande chokladkakor! I think it might be quite some time until you find a class with a similar pace as yours since you are a crazy-fast learner. However I wish you lycka till.

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  2. 200/minute - that's 3.33 a second - sounds faster than me :P ... and now I need to read yet another blog!

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