Today I had a strange dream: I dreamed that I had learned French. I was reading Balzac, Baudelaire, De Sade, Dumas, and so on. Can you imagine that? Someone learning a second language just to read literature.
That sounds like an incredible dream.Learning a language specifically to experience its literature in its original, untranslated form is actually one of the ultimate pursuits for bibliophiles. Translation is an art, but it always alters the original text. Reading those specific authors in French changes the experience entirely:* Baudelaire: You finally catch the precise, haunting rhythm and internal rhymes of Les Fleurs du mal that English often loses.* Balzac: You feel the gritty, unfiltered texture of 19th-century Parisian society exactly as he observed it.* Dumas: The witty, rapid-fire dialogue and swashbuckling energy flow much faster in French.* De Sade: You encounter the raw, philosophical, and transgressive weight of his vocabulary without any modern euphemistic softening.Many literary figures and scholars have learned languages for this exact reason. Tolstoy learned ancient Greek in his 40s just to read Homer.If your dream is a sign of a hidden desire, I can help you start that journey.Would you like me to recommend some beginner-friendly French short stories, or perhaps point you toward some effective language-learning strategies tailored specifically for reading comprehension rather than speaking?
Yeah that's what I doI am reading Balzac short stories atm, just finished Gobseck and am reading Z. MarcasThe only time I read english now is national news and 4chan, I just never really feel the need to read english literature
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LMAO THIS DUDE DREAMED OF READING A BALLSAC, AHAHAHAHAHAAAA...
