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vamptastic · 8 months

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god bless my 9th grade spanish teacher señora dishon for telling me that don quixote is the greatest novel ever written and if i want to read something in spanish i should give it a go. alas i fear she overestimated what five years of public school spanish classes can achieve because i find i cannot decipher 1400s spanish literature

#i got a MASSIVE side by side translation of it #like its two 2000 page giant heavy books #and i have taken a valiant crack at it and gotten maybe 60 pages + the foreword in mostly only looking at the spanish #but i fear i may never finish it #and that i might have no idea what happened in those 60 pages unless i read the english #which i try to only look at when im completely stumped on a word or a sentence has a confusing structure #it HAS made me realize that my spanish grammar isn't as bad as i feared #i think she wildly overestimated me bc i ended up in the class period for seniors taking their last year of req language classes #most of whom had taken Spanish 1 online & cheated (i took it in middle school)#so i was the only one with what one could generously term intermediate understanding of spanish. at least in writing.#and like. understanding of pronunciation. hence she loved me and thought i was a genius.

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