/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2708864]

>Your age
>Your nationality
>How many languages you can speak
>How many languages you can read
>Hardest/biggest book you've ever read in a foreign language

22
Chile
Two (Spanish, Italian)
Three (Sp, Ita, English)
Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.2708873]

>Your age
18
>Your nationality
English
>How many languages you can speak
46
>How many languages you can read
22
>Hardest/biggest book you've ever read in a foreign language
Infinite Jest in German braille

[Anonymous No.2708878]

>>2708873

>Penis Size
> 2 inches

[Anonymous No.2708880]

>>2708878
That's unfortunate for you, sir.

[Anonymous No.2708885]

>>2708873

[Anonymous No.2708886]

>24
>Belgian
>6 Dutch, French, German, English, Spanish, Romanian
>5 Dutch, French, German, English, Spanish, Romanian
>Crime and Punishmen by Fyodor Dostoyevski in French

[Anonymous No.2708894]

>38
>British
>5: English, Spanish, Dutch, French and German
>5: same languages
>Terra Nostra, Carlos Fuentes, in Spanish.

[Anonymous No.2708895]

>22
>American
>one
>one
>Finnegans Wake

[Anonymous No.2708912]

>>>37
>>>Canadian
>>>English, French, a little spanish
>>>English, French, a little spanish
>>>La Nausee par Jean Paul Sartre

[Anonymous No.2708917]

>Blooooooooo
>oooooooooo
>ooooooooo
>oooooooo
>ooow me

[Anonymous No.2708923]

>>2708894
>>2708912
Holy shit, I didn't knew we had wizards among us /lit/ards.

[Anonymous No.2708926]

>21
>Finnish
>Five(Finnish, English, German, Swedish, Russian)
>Five(Finnish, English, German, Swedish, Russian)
>Faust, unabridged German edition

[Anonymous No.2708930]

mfw people think they speak five languages

[Anonymous No.2708933]

>>2708923

37 yr old canuckfag here. Thanks, I laughed really loud at that. A wizard. lol.

[Anonymous No.2708938]

>dick measuring thread
you niggers want an award or something?

[Anonymous No.2708945]

19
Canadian
2 English, French (barely)
2 English, French
The Stranger

[Anonymous No.2708951]

17
USA

Three- English (native), German (my mom's German and I've lived there so I acquired it for "free"), French (5 years in school)

Same three

Waiting for Godot in French

[ϟ ＺＨＫＮＤ ϟ !Ry9.MAY90A No.2708968]

>Your age

TWENTYTWO YEARS.

>Your nationality

UNITED STATIAN, AND MEXICAN.

>How many languages you can speak

TWO; SPANISH, AND ENGLISH.

>How many languages you can read

THREE; SPANISH, ENGLISH, AND GERMAN.

>Hardest/biggest book you've ever read in a foreign language

THE MOST DIFFICULT "THING" IN A "FOREIGN" LANGUAGE THAT I HAVE EVER READ IS "DIE VERWIRRUNGEN DES ZÖGLINGS TÖRLESS", BY ROBERT MUSIL.

I NEVER FINISHED IT.

[Anonymous No.2708969]

>16
>english
>2, english and french
>3, english, french, german
>the sorrows of young werther

[Anonymous No.2708983]

>>2708968
i learn more about you all the time. i will find you. do not be afraid.

[Anonymous No.2708990]

>>2708923

Old britfag here. Pic is related.

[Anonymous No.2708991]

19
American
Spanish, English
Spanish, English, French
Don Quixote

[Anonymous No.2709003]

21
USA
English, Punjabi, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish (4)
English, Punjabi (Two Scripts), Hindi/Urdu (Two Scripts) (4?)
Probably a book of Urdu Poetry by Aalama Iqbal. That shit was impossible to read without a dictionary beside me, lol

[Anonymous No.2709004]

>19
>American
>English, French
>English, French
>La symphonie pastorale

[Anonymous No.2709009]

>Your age
21
>Your nationality
American
>How many languages you can speak
Three: English, French, Russian
>How many languages you can read
Three: English, French, Russian (which is iffy)
>Hardest/biggest book you've ever read in a foreign language
Les Miserables by Hugo

[Anonymous No.2709016]

>Your age
22
>Your nationality
British.
>How many languages you can speak
Three. English (naturally), French, Scottish Gaelic
>How many languages you can read
The three mentioned above. I'm going to attempt learning Dutch over the Summer though, I thought it may be a fairly easy goal to achieve. I think so far I've been proved wrong.
>Hardest/biggest book you've ever read in a foreign language
In terms of the largest book I've read, probably Celine's Voyage au bout de la nuit. In terms of hardest however, Paul Verlaine's poetry. With prose, you can hobble through most texts with even the most rudimentary understanding of the language. Idiomatic phrases and subtle allusions may be lost, but the jist of the text is still fairly apparent. Trying to read and understand poetry in a language that is not your own is difficult.

[Anonymous No.2709018]

>>2709016
>British.
Problems sleeping too?
its 4:15am here.

[Anonymous No.2709023]

27
Murrikan
Two fluently, can fake two others reasonably well
Three, a fourth if I concentrate
Cien Anos de Soledad, though Spanish isn't really a foreign language to me and it's not a particularly difficult book to navigate. I prefer to read and write in English, I speak to myself in Spanish 70% of the time, and I often dream in French. I'd like to learn Portuguese and it's fairly straightforward reading for me, though the spoken language is wildly different from Spanish.

[Anonymous No.2709031]

>>2709018
The weekends right after the semester ends always seem to prove aimless for me. I'll get back on track eventually.

As I type, dawn is breaking. That feeling of shame I get when I know that I've just stayed up all night and foregone a healthy, normal sleep pattern for a few hours of pointless chat, is the worst thing about nights like these.

Makes me feel a tad better though that some fellow Brit is burning the midnight oil too.

[Anonymous No.2709052]

>>2709031
not the anon you're responding to but as another brit i'm feeling your feel
i'm so afraid of sleep for no apparent reason
the few clouds in the sky look like burning rivers they might spill any minute now

[Anonymous No.2709059]

>Your age
18
>Your nationality
American
>How many languages you can speak
3 (English, Spanish, Russian)
>How many languages you can read
3 (English, Spanish, Hebrew)
>Hardest/biggest book you've ever read in a foreign language
The Tanakh

[Anonymous No.2709063]

>>2709059
The whole Tanakh in Hebrew? By yourself? D: