Saturday, June 6, 2009

Walkthrough Electric Box Level19

illustration (yi bu yi bu) Step by Step. It is a slow start again Wave That seduction

He had the feeling that, since I came to China, never had read as little as now.
I have always liked reading very much, very much. I do it in a landslide, with a hunger to devour books makes me a few weeks.
But since I came to my new shelter tonglinense, 8 months ago, I read in total, without exaggeration, a single book: Mirrors, by Eduardo Galeano. I read it at first. Especially enjoy the chapters that talk about China, of course.

And after that, nothing, went back to read another book. No one in English, at least.

I started to learn Chinese.
I spend, since one of the most absorbing work of my life, I began to haunt the characters. I started to look, to read, to decipher.
Since then I can not read the posters, packaging, bottles, covers of books, leaflets.
When I see a movie in English, my eyes go to the subtitles in Chinese and try to follow.
Yesterday, I went to get coffee at McDonalds only that we have here: happily discovered that I could understand much of what was written in one of those paper placemats that give you with the tray. Decided take it and figure it out completely in my house.
I had a fit of joy when I understood the meaning 不 伤 手 (bu shang shou) "No hands dana" written on the packaging of my detergent.
I bought some books from a Chinese writer named 几米 (Ji Mi). Write a book that at first glance seem to children, but in fact are not. I read them little by little. Enjoy them, forget them and re-read. The pictures help me understand. Leo
small books for children, those who still come with the pronunciation of the characters below for dwarfs because they are 6 or 7 years.
walk down the street reading, reading, reading. Before

leia Borges, Cortazar, I like Boudelaire, Kundera, and thousands that I can not say now.
But do not miss.

now read the inscriptions on the taxis, all entries in the products they buy, the names of the streets, shops, napkins.

Sometimes I'm walking down the street and think "Stop! You'll be sick! You may not be reading it! You can not try to remember each character!"
The autoadvertencia has a 10 seconds. After that, my eyes start to flutter again from here to there.

Only now I can think of that when I was 6 or 7 years, was beaten. When I discovered the world of letters, words, was well as I am now, trying to decipher any time the words, the stories on paper.

Because my learning Chinese would have been different?
In my world of Chinese characters, all this is more difficult.
no less interesting. Perhaps more attractive. Slower
. Very slow.

一步 一步 was created, the first sentence I learned in Chinese.
I repeat it every day.

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