My gf just dug up her Hebrew edition of Daddy-Long-Legs for me. The two things that struck me right off were that a)the illustrations are the same as the original, which I find comforting and b)the title is a literal translation of the English, only there's no daddy-long-legs spider in Israel (or, possibly, in Hebrew at all) so I can't imagine what Israeli readers thing Judy is talking about.
I will start reading it once I've finished the Hebrew Pride and Predjudice. Or maybe after Movie Shoes. This 'improving my language skills through revisiting childhood favorites' thing is actually a lot of fun.
And I read Dear Enemy for the first time only in the last couple of years, and I the sketchy science and problematic romance kept me from loving it as much as I do DLL, which I imprinted on fairly young.
Reading favourite children's books sounds like an admirable way to improve language skills. I wish they'd thought of that at school instead of making us read Racine. I might speak fluent French and be working for the UN (or someone) if they had. (Or not. Translation work isn't actually all that easy to come by unless you speak something really obscure.)
I was jogging along quite happily with Dear Enemy until I suddenly came smack-bang up against "Sterilise the mentally sub-normal and be rid of the problem in a generation" and then I went "AAAARRRGGGH!!" and had to hide under the bed. Oh, dear. Other than that I like it, but that's a bit like "Other than that, Mrs Lincoln ..."
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I will start reading it once I've finished the Hebrew Pride and Predjudice. Or maybe after Movie Shoes. This 'improving my language skills through revisiting childhood favorites' thing is actually a lot of fun.
And I read Dear Enemy for the first time only in the last couple of years, and I the sketchy science and problematic romance kept me from loving it as much as I do DLL, which I imprinted on fairly young.
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I was jogging along quite happily with Dear Enemy until I suddenly came smack-bang up against "Sterilise the mentally sub-normal and be rid of the problem in a generation" and then I went "AAAARRRGGGH!!" and had to hide under the bed. Oh, dear. Other than that I like it, but that's a bit like "Other than that, Mrs Lincoln ..."
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