Superchería by Leopoldo Alas “Clarín” (book in Spanish)

Terminé de leer el libro Superchería de Leopoldo Alas “Clarín” en Español.

Estuve leyendo este libro durante más de un mes. Era una novela corta, pero fue muy dificil leerla para mi. En el libro había muchas palabras desconocidas, oraciones largas que eran muy complejas, y tenía que usar mi diccionario casi todo el tiempo.

Pero al mismo tiempo este libro estaba escrito de manera tan hermosa, que no me importó que tuviera que buscar tantas palabras desconocidas en el diccionario. Simplemente disfruté el lenguaje maravilloso y el estilo del escritor Leopoldo Alas “Clarín” que sabía manejar las palabras tan bellamente y con mucha precision.

También en este libro encontré muchas palabras y expresiónes que me resultaron muy interesantes (a mi, a la Rusa) y me gustaría compartirlas con ustedes:
🇪🇦 (Es) 👉👉👉 🇷🇺 (Ru)

🔹 sobre manera (sobremanera) = чрезмерно, чрезвычайно (“…me impresionó sobre manera.”);
🔹 letra bastardilla = курсив (“… y en letra bastardilla estaban escritas…”);
🔹 naufragio = кораблекрушение (…como dos compañeros de naufragio…);
🔹 Santo Tomás = святой Фома, Фома неверующий (…aquel Santo Tomás del hipnotismo…”);
🔹 como Pedro por su casa = быть (вести себя) как у себя дома (…como Pedro en su casa se fue acercando, entre codazos discretos, al grupo de hombres…);
🔹 sacamuelas = болтун, шарлатан, мастер заговаривать зубы;
🔹 sabihondo = всезнайка (…si se le presentaba occasion, haría cualquer tontería para dejar corrido al sacamuelas elegante y sabihondo.);
🔹 as de oros = бубновый туз;
🔹 sexo fuerte = сильный пол (También el sexo fuerte tuvo que…);
🔹 para sus adentros = про себя, мысленно (“Caterina Porena”, pensó, hablándose en voz alta para sus adentros);
🔹 a tientas = на ощупь (A tientas llegó a la Puerta de la Academia vieja…);
🔹 quieras que no quieras = хочешь-не хочешь, волей-неволей (Ello fue que una hora después Nicolás Serrano, quieras que no quieras, era presentado en la recepción del alcalde prodigioso…);
🔹 por sistema = систематически постоянно (Aunque por sistema huía Serrano, mucho tiempo hacía, de toda clase de exaltaciones ideales…);
🔹 ver el cielo abierto = увидеть свет (в конце туннеля), возможность получить желаемое, выбраться из тупика (…Mijares vio el cielo abierto, y dio un abrazo al italiano, llamándole compañero, querido compañero.)

Y por ultimo mi frase favorita: “…siempre que la curiosidad me acerque a un objeto del cual deseo saber algo, que ofrece posibles consecuencias provechosas…, mi obligación es oír la voz de la curiosidad.” ❤️

Started Reading – 15 January 2022
Finished Reading – 16 February 2022
My Rating4 Stars ★★★★

Fahrenheit 451

I just finished reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I read the book in just three and a half days and I really liked the story. Great read, very emotional! It’s definitely a must read for anyone who loves good social science fiction novels!

Two interesting words from this book:
🇺🇲 (En) 👉👉👉 🇷🇺 (Ru)

🔹 heresy = ересь;
🔹 pratfall = падение на зад (например, клоуна) нарочито неуклюжее и вызывающее смех; оплошность, провал (“Life becomes one big pratfall, Montag; everything bang; boff, and wow!”).

Some of my favorite quotes from Fahrenheit 451 are:

“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then. Now, it’s too late.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Кайдашева сім’я (book in Ukrainian)

Just finished reading in Ukrainian Кайдашева сім’я by Іван Нечуй-Левицький.

A very interesting book, the best I’ve read so far this year! I really enjoyed reading about village life in Ukraine and the people who had to be tough to survive in such difficult circumstances.

Two interesting phrases from this book:
🇺🇦 (Ua) 👉👉👉 🇷🇺 (Ru)

🔹 наговорити сім мішків гречаної вовни = наврать с три короба (наговорить огромное количество неотносящейся к делу информации);
🔹 мати серце з перцем = быть вспыльчивым, острым на язык (“Я люблю, щоб дівчина була трохи бриклива, щоб мала серце з перцем”, сказав Карпо).

Started Reading – 9 January 2022
Finished Reading – 23 January 2022
My Rating5 Stars ★★★★★

January 2022 Reading List

What I’m currently reading? 3 interesting books in 3 great Slavic languages: Russian, Polish and Ukrainian!

Cylinder van Troffa by Janusz A. Zajdel (in Polish) 🇵🇱
Кайдашева сім’я by Іван Нечуй-Левицький (in Ukrainian) 🇺🇦
Юнкера by Александр Куприн (in Russian) 🇷🇺

The Top 7 Books I Read in 2021 in different languages – English, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian

Here they are, my top 7 favorite books that I read in 2021 in different languages (English, Spanish, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian).

Read more...

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:57 🇺🇲 (En) Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Watson
2:32 🇺🇲 (En) The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony
04:02 🇪🇦 (Sp) Cuentos juveniles del mundo by Victor Vazhdayev
05:09 🇵🇱 (Pl) Znachor. Profesor Wilczur by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
06:44 🇺🇦 (Ua) Тіні забутих предків – Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky
08:13 🇷🇺 (Ru) Поединок – Александр Куприн
09:15 🇷🇺 (Ru) Сталин. Жизнь и смерть – Эдвард Радзинский
10:46 Conclusion

Thank you so much for watching! ❤️

Here are all 49 the books I read in 2021 – in English, Spanish, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian https://silentpolyglot.com/all-the-boo…

Please let me know in the comments down below what were your favorite books of the year.
I would love to hear your book recommendations! I’m always looking for a good book to read!

My favorites of the past year:
▶ Top 7 Books I Read in 2020 – Reading in different languages – EN, SP, PL, RU (eng subs) https://youtu.be/wHi2zpvpxdw


I want to say a BIG thank you to my English teacher Mrs. Rebecah Propst for her support and for correcting my mistakes. ▶ Rebecah’s Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPtL…

Note: this is not a sponsored video. I am just sharing some of my favorite YouTube channels that I find helpful.


P.S. I apologize for reading from a script. As some of you already know my story, I can read, write and understand but I still struggle to put my thoughts into words even in my own language – Russian. :)
Here is my story:
▶ I understand but I can’t SPEAK – my language learning problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVElN…
▶ I asked 5 native speaker teachers (EN, SP, PL) and one Russian therapist about my language problem https://youtu.be/hz1OVaoDyhE

All The Books I Read In 2021!

Here are all 49 books I read in 2021 – in English, Spanish, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian. ❤️

English 🇺🇲

  1. Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Watson
  2. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony
  3. Read & Grow Rich: How the Hidden Power of Reading Can Make You Richer in All Areas of Your Life by Burke Hedges
  4. How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  5. 1984 by George Orwell
  6. Matilda by Roald Dahl
  7. The Witches by Roald Dahl
Read more...
  1. The Tall Stranger by D.E. Stevenson
  2. Mistaken (Mistaken #1) by Pixie Unger
  3. Voices of Dragons (Voices of Dragons, #1) by Carrie Vaughn
  4. Refuge of Dragons (Voices of Dragons #2) by Carrie Vaughn
  5. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
  6. The Marquis Who Hated Women by Barbara Cartland
  7. Awkward Silences and How to Prevent Them: 25 Tactics to Engage, Captivate, and Always Know What To Say by Patrick King
  8. When the Ashes Fall by Jacqueline Druga
  9. Rebirth (The Pretender #1) by Steven Long Mitchell, Craig W. Van Sickle
  10. The V Girl by Mya Robarts
  11. Atlantis, the Deluge and the End of the Ice Age by Zarin
  12. Sumerians: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman

Spanish 🇪🇸

  1. Cuentos juveniles del mundo – Victor Vazhdayev
  2. Los conquistadores del fuego – J. H. Rosny aîné. (English version Quest for Fire
  3. En busca del caballo árabe – Luis Miguel Urrechu
  4. La Atlántida – Francisco M. Mota
  5. El secreto de Lena – Michael Ende
  6. Los conquistadores de la Antártida – Francisco Coloane
  7. El libro salvaje – Juan Villoro

Polish 🇵🇱

  1. Harry Potter i Czara Ognia (Harry Potter 4) – J.K. Rowling
  2. Harry Potter i Zakon Feniksa (Harry Potter 5) – J.K. Rowling
  3. Harry Potter i Książę Półkrwi (Harry Potter 6) – J.K. Rowling
  4. Harry Potter i Insygnia Śmierci (Harry Potter, #7) – J.K. Rowling
  5. Znachor (Znachor #1) – Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
  6. Profesor Wilczur (Znachor #2) – Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
  7. Powrót z gwiazd – Stanisław Lem
  8. Paradyzja – Janusz A. Zajdel

Russian 🇷🇺

  1. Поединок – Александр Иванович Куприн
  2. Сталин. Жизнь и смерть – Эдвард Радзинский
  3. Распутин. Жизнь и смерть – Эдвард Радзинский
  4. Рассказы – Антон Чехов
  5. Анна Каренина – Лев Толстой
  6. Воскресение – Лев Толстой
  7. Служебный роман – Эльдар Рязанов, Эмиль Брагинский
  8. Иван Васильевич – Михаил Булгаков
  9. Собачье сердце – Михаил Булгаков
  10. Дневник императрицы. Екатерина II (ЛЕГЕНДАРНЫЕ СУДЬБЫ)
  11. Жизнь лошадей в непридуманных историях и картинках – Наталья Спасская, Андрей Летаров, Нина Французова, Юлия Ермилина
  12. Живородящие рыбки для пресноводных аквариумов – С.А. Сидоров
  13. Камасутра для оратора. 10 глав о том, как получать и доставлять максимальное удовольствие, выступая публично – Радислав Гандапас
  14. Тим – Колин Маккалоу (the English version Tim)

Ukrainian 🇺🇦

  1. Тіні забутих предків – Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

Feedback (Variant, #2) – Robison Wells

Прочитала на английском Feedback (Variant, #2) by Robison Wells. Если не ошибаюсь, в русском варианте, эта вторая часть дилогии Робисона Уэллса называется «Обратная связь».

Хм, смешанные чувства. Книга понравилась меньше предыдущей, (по моему мнению, она несколько слабее), но сама идея – интересная.

И для изучающих английский язык, книга тоже может быть интересна. Мой «улов» интересных слов/выражений на сегодня:
🇺🇲 (En) 👉👉👉 🇷🇺 (Ru)

🔹 bargaining chip = козырь в кармане, преимущество (It was my bargaining chip.)

🔹 take something with a grain of salt = take something with a pinch of salt = отнестись критически, с недоверием (“This is where you start taking things with a grain of salt.”)