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Fallenstar · 11-08-2005, 07:45 PM

my first major English reading task (I gave myself four years ago when I first arrived to Canada) was the Fellowship...I understood parts of it...more like just one fourth of it if I was lucky..I learned just about tons of words, I mean I never knew that "cry" can also mean speak out loud or shout, and I started wondering when I reached chapter three that why is everybody crying when they are not sad..

I learned a lot of new words thanks to LOTR, and after tons of re-reading I think I understood more every time.

Still trying to increase my vocabulary.

11-08-2005, 07:45 PM	#30
Fallenstar Pile O'Bones Join Date: May 2005 Location: In the land of Eren, the Garden of Ilrandir the Creator. Posts: 11	my first major English reading task (I gave myself four years ago when I first arrived to Canada) was the Fellowship...I understood parts of it...more like just one fourth of it if I was lucky..I learned just about tons of words, I mean I never knew that "cry" can also mean speak out loud or shout, and I started wondering when I reached chapter three that why is everybody crying when they are not sad.. I learned a lot of new words thanks to LOTR, and after tons of re-reading I think I understood more every time. Still trying to increase my vocabulary. __________________ What Ship will bear me back, across so wide a Sea?