50 pages of Oster again, hoping to leave comments and update the chronology this weekend.
(What's more impressive is that I read those 50 pages between 4:30 and 9 pm, meaning much faster than ever before. I could have done more, but I didn't want to burn out.)
Wilhelmine and SD are at the ball and have just learned that Fritz tried to escape.
Awesome! I am pacing you (didn't quite get to that point but will easily reach it tomorrow). I'm finding this much easier than Ziebura; I think it's meant for a somewhat less academic audience :) So I'm glad that you poked me into reading it!
(I also think the syntax is easier; I am still not really trying to read it, especially since I can't keep up with you if I even try to pick out bits, but I do feel like I can pick out more bits than I could in Ziebura.)
I'm also very interested in when you tell me which authors are easier than other authors; it's very hard for me to tell, because there are so many confounding variables, like my rapidly improving German, and the extent to which I already know the material. (Not having to parse the syntax and untangle the pronouns because I already know who did what to whom is huge.)
I'm hoping that reading Oster makes volume 2 of Wilhelmine's memoirs easier, which is why I decided to do it first. My entire approach to German is trying to make future reading easier, which is why the ordering of reading material is important, and why I'm starting with things you're interested in co-reading rather than the things that are Katte related highest on my own list. :)
Speaking of which, are you interested in doing MT together, after Lehndorff? If so, I should probably order it now, to give it time to arrive (since the Kindle version isn't available in the US, grrr) and me to format ONE THOUSAND pages. Looks like the cheapest copy (which I can cover) would be coming from the UK.
Heh, the Wilhelmine is definitely also easier because I know much of the material already, but yeah, I can tell that in addition the English is just easier to read and that it's pitched to a less already-knowledgeable audience (me!) :)
Speaking of which, are you interested in doing MT together, after Lehndorff? If so, I should probably order it now, to give it time to arrive (since the Kindle version isn't available in the US, grrr) and me to format ONE THOUSAND pages.
Yes pleeeeease! OMG I forgot that because I have a translator now, I don't have to wait for the translation (which I just checked and is still in translator limbo). Yay!
Yes pleeeeease! OMG I forgot that because I have a translator now, I don't have to wait for the translation (which I just checked and is still in translator limbo). Yay!
Oh, goody! I wasn't sure if me going, "read this thing with me!" "and also this other thing!" all the time at you ;) meant that you had too much on your plate now and weren't up for MT any more.
Because you were the one who said you might be interested in reading it together, back in June when we were plotting out our reading group. You said there wasn't much nonfic you were interested in reading in German, and then said you would be interested in MT. But then I proposed Lehndorff and got you to read Oster with me, and I didn't hear any more about MT, so I wasn't sure. But I kept it on my mental list, because I need a lot of German practice before I'm ready to start tackling things that I can't readily put through Google translate.
Ordered! Should arrive sometime in October. We'll probably end up doing it during Yuletide, but we can always go slowly, and I have Horowski to keep me in practice for German.
Also, I need to figure out just how bad a job Google OCR does at blackletter font, because I'm sure you'd like to read volume 2 of Lehndorff someday, maybe after Yuletide at this rate, and unlike volume 1, it hasn't been reprinted in modern font.
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Re: Oster Wilhelmine readthrough
Date: 2020-09-26 03:43 am (UTC)(What's more impressive is that I read those 50 pages between 4:30 and 9 pm, meaning much faster than ever before. I could have done more, but I didn't want to burn out.)
Wilhelmine and SD are at the ball and have just learned that Fritz tried to escape.
Re: Oster Wilhelmine readthrough
Date: 2020-09-26 05:29 am (UTC)(I also think the syntax is easier; I am still not really trying to read it, especially since I can't keep up with you if I even try to pick out bits, but I do feel like I can pick out more bits than I could in Ziebura.)
Re: Oster Wilhelmine readthrough
Date: 2020-09-26 03:56 pm (UTC)Oh, good, I'm glad!
I'm also very interested in when you tell me which authors are easier than other authors; it's very hard for me to tell, because there are so many confounding variables, like my rapidly improving German, and the extent to which I already know the material. (Not having to parse the syntax and untangle the pronouns because I already know who did what to whom is huge.)
I'm hoping that reading Oster makes volume 2 of Wilhelmine's memoirs easier, which is why I decided to do it first. My entire approach to German is trying to make future reading easier, which is why the ordering of reading material is important, and why I'm starting with things you're interested in co-reading rather than the things that are
Katte relatedhighest on my own list. :)Speaking of which, are you interested in doing MT together, after Lehndorff? If so, I should probably order it now, to give it time to arrive (since the Kindle version isn't available in the US, grrr) and me to format ONE THOUSAND pages. Looks like the cheapest copy (which I can cover) would be coming from the UK.
MT
Date: 2020-09-26 04:54 pm (UTC)Speaking of which, are you interested in doing MT together, after Lehndorff? If so, I should probably order it now, to give it time to arrive (since the Kindle version isn't available in the US, grrr) and me to format ONE THOUSAND pages.
Yes pleeeeease! OMG I forgot that because I have a translator now, I don't have to wait for the translation (which I just checked and is still in translator limbo). Yay!
Re: MT
Date: 2020-09-26 05:09 pm (UTC)Oh, goody! I wasn't sure if me going, "read this thing with me!" "and also this other thing!" all the time at you ;) meant that you had too much on your plate now and weren't up for MT any more.
Because you were the one who said you might be interested in reading it together, back in June when we were plotting out our reading group. You said there wasn't much nonfic you were interested in reading in German, and then said you would be interested in MT. But then I proposed Lehndorff and got you to read Oster with me, and I didn't hear any more about MT, so I wasn't sure. But I kept it on my mental list, because I need a lot of German practice before I'm ready to start tackling things that I can't readily put through Google translate.
Ordered! Should arrive sometime in October. We'll probably end up doing it during Yuletide, but we can always go slowly, and I have Horowski to keep me in practice for German.
Also, I need to figure out just how bad a job Google OCR does at blackletter font, because I'm sure you'd like to read volume 2 of Lehndorff someday, maybe after Yuletide at this rate, and unlike volume 1, it hasn't been reprinted in modern font.
...Reading group is SO GREAT.