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4everluv

my roommate got up at 6 on 7-21, waited for an hour for the gift shop to open . i was so jealous because i just couldnt wake up- -

无情

Melv. I heard there's an online version because someone took pictures of the whole book and got people to type up everything to make a pdf file.

St.Anime

Qing-er~
Do you still use MSN?
People like us going to UofT should bond together and defeat the evilness of massive lecture halls...*dies*

TRUTH CN

原帖由 无情 于 2007-7-23 05:34 发表

Welcome!

It's really nice to see someone with such patience when it comes to learning a foreign language. With your determination, your English will improve gradually, one step at a time. So be pat ...

Thank you very much!

I  was  jealous  because  I  am  living in China . I must wait for the Chinese version !That's  a  really  terrible long time ! So  I think you  are  so  lucky  to  live  in  foreign country or study  abroad!

KUDONOYO

原帖由 无情 于 2007-7-23 01:23 发表
Ah... I knew it. I was trying so hard to prove to my friends that Severus is a noble person.

I knew Dumbledore would never beg to be spared. He was begging Severus to kill him.

I don't want to spoil the story but I meant more than that, more than which side Severus actually takes. What makes him noble and brave is - alas, Dumbledore again - love.

KUDONOYO

原帖由 TRUTH CN 于 2007-7-23 09:48 发表


Thank you very much!

I  was  jealous  because  I  am  living in China . I must wait for the Chinese version !That's  a  really  terrible long time ! So  I think you  are  so  lucky  to  live ...

Hey!  Why do you have to wait for the Chinese version if you can read English? Every online book store sells tons of copies of HP7. You can check out joyo/dangdang etc. If you live in one of some big cities, you can get one in your local Xinhua book stores also. Just go buy and read!  The second half of it is fabulous!

TRUTH CN

原帖由 KUDONOYO 于 2007-7-23 14:05 发表

Hey!  Why do you have to wait for the Chinese version if you can read English? Every online book store sells tons of copies of HP7. You can check out joyo/dangdang etc. If you live in one of som ...

I think the English version is too expensive!  The most important is, I afraid I don't understand the  English version book! Actually, I think that's  too  difficult  for me to do so, because of too many new words...

TRUTH CN

原帖由 KUDONOYO 于 2007-7-23 13:59 发表

I don't want to spoil the story but I meant more than that, more than which side Severus actually takes. What makes him noble and brave is - alas, Dumbledore again - love.

Yes, I heard about that...The newspaper had spoiled the ending of the story .

To be honest,at the beginning,I thought Severus was a bad guy.But after reading the HP4, my feeling changed. I guess maybe he is not so bad...He  seems to 'hate'
Harry,but he had some
special  reason to do so.

Now,it 's been proved...

About the love,I think there was a  hint in HP4...

Sorry!Maybe I  am spoiling the story

大肚肚

I've only read the book up to chapter 12
Maybe it's just my "Summer Vacation of English Skills" but I'm so tired of Ms. Rowling's writings (not that the storyline is not attractive)...
My friend advised me to rest and I certainly did...

大肚肚

And I thought Lita Skeeter learned to shut up
(maybe I lost track of what's going on with her)

hiddern70

I think the English version is too expensive!  The most important is, I afraid I don't understand the  English version book! Actually, I think that's  too  difficult  for me to do so, because of too many new words...

You don't have to concern about that. Everyone who can speak English fluently also comes from that diffcult time. Therefore,  set up your confidence and make your move.

[ 本帖最后由 hiddern70 于 2007-7-24 03:28 编辑 ]

KUDONOYO

原帖由 hiddern70 于 2007-7-24 03:26 发表

You don't have to concern about that. Everyone who can speak English fluently also comes from that diffcult time. Therefore,  set up your confidence and make your move.

Exactly.  And, TRUTH san, the best way to get to know those new words is to read them in a story, not a dictionary. The context will help you relate the words to their meaning, but a dictionary can only help you relate them to their translation. Just move on, and good luck.
And as for the price... I think the English version is totally worth the price. I used to read Chinese versions when I was younger (much, much younger, as a matter of fact), and later, when I first moved to the English copies, I was completely spellbound. There are tricks and puns and puzzles and words between lines that just can't be translated into another language. And trust me, Ms Rowling is good at those.

KUDONOYO

原帖由 大肚肚 于 2007-7-24 02:47 发表
And I thought Lita Skeeter learned to shut up
(maybe I lost track of what's going on with her)

Rita is not afraid of Hermione any more... because the latter dares not show up in public. I guess she is the Undesirable No. 3, haha.

TRUTH CN

原帖由 KUDONOYO 于 2007-7-24 16:08 发表

Exactly.  And, TRUTH san, the best way to get to know those new words is to read them in a story, not a dictionary. The context will help you relate the words to their meaning, but a dictionary can o ...

Maybe you're right!One of my English teachers told us the English version is much  better than the Chinese version.Maybe I should try..

TRUTH CN

原帖由 hiddern70 于 2007-7-24 03:26 发表

You don't have to concern about that. Everyone who can speak English fluently also comes from that diffcult time. Therefore,  set up your confidence and make your move.

Thanks...I think I will try...

Ange1ica

原帖由 TRUTH CN 于 2007-7-24 22:10 发表


Maybe you're right!One of my English teachers told us the English version is much  better than the Chinese version.Maybe I should try..

are you all talking about Harry Potter?

无情

I suppose so.

By the way, nice avatar Melv. ^^

大肚肚

I've finished it, and my best friend told me to repeat the whole story to her in details= =
That was challenging, I was forgetting some of the stories and I just said Rowling whenever that happened
After all it's Ms. Rowling who made the story too complicated for me to remember...

4everluv

Anybody wants to tell us your plan for next school year?

I will be a 12 grader so that sucks for me. I will be mainly working on my college applications next year. I have a list of 15 schools that i want to apply. Maybe I will be able to narrow it down a little bit- - but yes, that's still a lot of works to do.
I just hope the entrance essays won't be so hard- -
and my AP courses, I took 5 this year.- -
orientation is tomorrow, so I'm back to school , well, almost.

无情

Yay! A brand new topic! This is great! ^^

I don't really know what I have next year exactly, because I haven't picked my courses yet.

I know I'll be going to university, and that's about it.

Ani: Sorry, Ani. I can't take Japanese with you next year. I realized that I must take physics to keep my options open. I'm so sorry. T-T My dad said Japanese would be great for 拉分, but he also said it wouldn't be as useful to my career as physics would: physics enables me to get to the specialist level if necessary.