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Of reading and stuff
17 August 2007 21:52I realised today that apart from work, which doesn't count, I've read hardly anything that isn't Harry Potter, Doctor Who, or related fanfic, for a while now.
So I picked up one of the few books that I have in Finnish... P. D. James's Original Sin. It's been a couple of years since I've read anything in Finnish (and I practically don't watch TV any more), so I was a little worried my language skills might have got rusty, but so far, so good. It's such an interesting experience though, to read fiction in a language I usually don't read. I've caught myself trying to translate it back into English while reading, thinking what the original text might have said - an occupational hazard, I suppose.
Maybe it also feels strange as it's been an even longer time since I've read something (that isn't work or newspapers) in Estonian... I've got so used to just reading everything in English. The sentence structure and style and the words used are all somehow so much heavier in Finnish (and in Estonian too, come to think of it, although at least our words tend to be shorter).
I should probably pick up a few more books in Finnish whenever I go to Helsinki again (I was actually planning to take a day trip during my holidays, but didn't quite get around to it).
So I picked up one of the few books that I have in Finnish... P. D. James's Original Sin. It's been a couple of years since I've read anything in Finnish (and I practically don't watch TV any more), so I was a little worried my language skills might have got rusty, but so far, so good. It's such an interesting experience though, to read fiction in a language I usually don't read. I've caught myself trying to translate it back into English while reading, thinking what the original text might have said - an occupational hazard, I suppose.
Maybe it also feels strange as it's been an even longer time since I've read something (that isn't work or newspapers) in Estonian... I've got so used to just reading everything in English. The sentence structure and style and the words used are all somehow so much heavier in Finnish (and in Estonian too, come to think of it, although at least our words tend to be shorter).
I should probably pick up a few more books in Finnish whenever I go to Helsinki again (I was actually planning to take a day trip during my holidays, but didn't quite get around to it).
