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Usenet Posted 21 years ago
English in UK
Reading aloud
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
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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[/nq] Seems like a good idea to me. [nq:1]What kind of text could you recommend? Monologues from Shakespeare's plays are surely a good start,[/nq] I wouldn't, better off using something with more modern English [nq:1]but is there anything more recent which could be recommended?
- [/nq] Seems like a good idea to me.
- [nq:1]What kind of text could you recommend?
- Monologues from Shakespeare's plays are surely a good start,[/nq] I wouldn't, better off using something with more modern English [nq:1]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,[/nq] 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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[nq:1]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.[/nq]
Seems like a good idea to me.
[nq:1]What kind of text could you recommend? Monologues from Shakespeare's plays are surely a good start,[/nq]
I wouldn't, bet
Seems like a good idea to me.
[nq:1]What kind of text could you recommend? Monologues from Shakespeare's plays are surely a good start,[/nq]
I wouldn't, bet
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[nq:1]What kind of text could you recommend?...[/nq]
For modern English texts, I would recommend anything written by: Graham Greene, George Orwell, Daphne DuMaurier,
E.M.Forster.
For modern English texts, I would recommend anything written by: Graham Greene, George Orwell, Daphne DuMaurier,
E.M.Forster.
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