In a message dated 4/16/2008 11:05:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, wknight8111@gmail.com writes:
There must be native speakers of a language in order to read material written in it.
I beg to disagree. I am a native English speaker, but there are many topics I prefer to read in Hebrew, my second language. And it is not just religious texts (though I can't imagine reading the Bible in English; it misses all the word play). When I was in college, I preferred reading Plato and Spinoza in Hebrew (though I read Descartes in English and Kant in both). One of my favorite authors is Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago. I have most of his books, but in Hebrew.
The point is that people who are bi- or multi-lingual often identify specific topics with specific languages, and don't necessarily prefer their native language.
Danny
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