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Old 07-28-2010, 03:58 AM   #41
Lo Zeno
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Originally Posted by mrscoach View Post
So, do you imagine the scenes from the books you read? I know people who read a lot are most likely "good" readers, because if you aren't you probably aren't going to do a lot of it, but I was wondering about this little cross section of humanity (or non-humans, if any be on here).
I always imagine the scene, the actions and the sounds in my mind... now.
But it's not always been like that with books written in English.

My first language is Italian, so I learnt to read that language first, and ever since I can remember, I have always pictured the scene and the characters in my mind, sort of like watching a movie.
But when I learnt English, and read my first full book in English, that kind of magic didn't happen: the effort of understanding what was written, the frequent pauses to look up a word in the dictionary, the need to read two or three times a sentence, made it impossible for me to create in my mind a picture of what was happening in the story.

As my English improved, it got easier, and now I do imagine what I read even when I read English books (most of the time, anyway, until I find a word or a phrasal verb that I have never read before).
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