Wahoo! So, I've officially finished reading my first Spanish novel. Personally, I'm just proud I didn't skip any pages--I mean, who cares if a I had a breakdown halfway through? ("It's too hard! I'm never going to finish this!")
As I might have mentioned in my previous posts, Legend, written by Marie Lu, is one of my all time favorite books (even after . . . 4? 5? years) So it was only natural that I chose Legend to be my first Spanish reading endeavor, yeah? (<-- did="" haha="" i="" p="" see="" there="" what="" you="">
In a nut shell, it took me about two months to complete this novel. The first 25% of the book was very slow going . . . I couldn't do more than 1 chapter at a time (even had to break up chapters to give myself a mental break.) To be honest, I bribed myself with food to finish each chapter ^_^
Luckily, things started to pick up after the first quarter of the novel, mostly, I think, because I was finally getting familiar with the commonly used words (quedar, tirar, gritar). And yes, I did learn new vocabulary! So that's always good!
One thing I found particularly helpful was writing down the English translation of unfamiliar words/phrases directly within the book, as you can see in the picture below.
Trust me, searching up the translation via Google translate actually took more time/effort than I expected. Fortunately, many times the meaning of an unfamiliar word could be deduced from context, which saved me some finger tapping :P Granted, the fact that I read Legend way too many times for my own good probably helped.
Well, that's all there is for now! Cheers!
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