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Hi everyone. Great news, we have a new course for you.
Yeah.
我们的新课程【英文名著扫盲班】上线了, 璐璐和安澜陪你读英语国家家喻户晓的10本经典，带你走进10个风格迥异, 但都精彩非常的故事。
So安澜, the English name for this course is called Bluffer's Guide to Literature, why Bluffer’s Guide?
We chose the name Bluff’s Guide because we understand that you might be a bit busy, or you might not have the time, or you might not even be able to find the book.
So instead of actually having to read the entire book, well we hope you do read the book, we hope that this course will give you enough knowledge to bluff other people. So if someone asks you or makes a reference about these books, you know enough about the book to carry on the conversation.
其实就是下回别人再谈起来, 或者说提到这些经典里面的桥段, 你至少可以装一下。
Yes.
We're not just excited because we have this new course, but also because this new course is something that ,安澜 and I, we've been trying to do for ages.
We both love literature, we both love reading, we love books, everything to do with books.
Or basically big book nerds or book warms.
We are pretty nerdy when it comes to books.
我跟安澜都是那种书虫属性的。
So I thought in this intro for our new course, you can talk a little bit about our experiences with books, and why literature matters.
Lulu, tell me why do you like book so much？Why do you like reading so much.
All right, this goes back to when I was really little.
You know how parents would tell little kids bed time stories, 家长都会给小孩讲那种***故事, but when I was a little, I wouldn't fall asleep listening to those stories, I get even more excited.
So I'd be like, my mom was falling asleep, then I said, mom wake up what happen next?
And then eventually I just lost the patience and I taught myself how to read so that I can read stories, I would say that was the beginning of my very long romance with books, and then I started reading books and I never stopped.
What type of books?
For me, really my primary interest, I know this doesn't sound like very in-depth or intellectual, I love mystery, suspense, crime, detective sort of books.
Ah yes, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes…
Hm, the classics, but also lots of other styles. I have never been interested in romance. What about you？
I'm not very interested in romance, but I was saying my situation is probably quite similar. My stories are quite similar to yours.
I love Eden. When I was younger, my dad would tell me stories from history, the Greek myth, for example. So I was constantly hearing all of these stories.
And when I was younger, it actually took me a little bit longer to learn how to speak than other kids. And my parents actually say that I learned how to read before I learned how to speak.
Maybe you just didn't want to speak because books are so fascinating. They are friends.
Pretty much. I was always in the library, I was always taking out books, and I was always getting into trouble for library fines because I would like the book so much that I wouldn't want to give it back.
You’d just keep the books.
I would just keep the books, and every so often I’d to go to my mom to beg her to pay off the library fine.
I see. But what about your first experience reading any books in another language, I mean, for me, it's obviously English, but for you it's, I don't know, German?
Yes, I would say the first books I read in a foreign language were in German.
So I read some of the German classics, like 20th century literature; and I also used to read German newspapers and magazines, I can't do that now, my German is terrible.
But then I went on to Latin and Greek, because I studied that at university; and then finally to Chinese.
安澜的外文阅读就听起来都很高大上, 什么德文经典, 拉丁文的经典。