Thread: Looking for language exchange

Originally Posted by kgcole

My friend is feminine and works as a long-distance truck driver. Is it really surprising?

It is surprising for me (or to me?). I have never saw or hear about a woman working as a long distance truck driver.

Originally Posted by kgcole

Do you recommend any book which you loved to read?

Well, I don’t read much, to be honest. The more I hardly ever read fiction at all. I love Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and his Resurrection, Goncharov’s Oblomov, Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog, Somerset Maugham’s stories, all of them, all the stories by O’Henry, Heaven Has No Favorites by Remarque, Jack London’s Martin Eden, and many others, I guess. Yet I like opinion journalism not less. I also like more practical books like Dale Carnegie’s things and similar to those. I like books like The Amusing Bible by Léo Taxil, I don’t know of what genre it is.

Originally Posted by kgcole

In your opinion, how do English and Russian writer differ?

I don’t know. I doubt there can be any satisfactory answer to this question.

Originally Posted by kgcole

Do you think male and female writers differ?

Yes, I do. I think male writers are definitely brighter than female ones.

Ooh, it was a tough essey. I had to look up all those names and titles, and look for “opinion journalism”. I failed to find the translation of the word “публицистика” and “познавательный”.