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Books

Why is it important to read books in a foreign language?

Personal benefits

• Expand vocabulary
• Exposure to nuances (expressions, sentence structures, word order, grammar etc)
• Improves your listening, reading, writing, speaking

Other reasons

• Things get lost in translation (jokes but also expressions and words that can't be translated)
• More options (so more topics)
• Often cheaper

Adventure/sci-fi 

• The hunger games 
• The maze runner
• Divergent
• Harry Potter

Chick-lit

• The princess diaries
• Sophie Kinsella books (Shopaholic etc)
• Something borrowed
• Bridget Jones's diary
• Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Drama (1)

• Slumdog millionaire
• Life of Pi 
• The Kite runner
• Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
• The boy in the striped pyjamas 
• The fault in our stars 

Drama (2)

• Paper towns
• The meaning of birds
• The hate u give
• They both die at the end
• One of us is lying (mystery)

Comics etc

• Marvel comics
• Donald Duck

• Books like 'Dog zombies rule'
• Diary of a whimpy kid

Do you have any recommendations?

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