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How do I understand the language in Pride and Prejudice? I'm 13 and we haven't studied it in school but I would like to read it for fun but I can't understand even the first page! Can someone please help me out!
Medea I read it through for the first time when I was 12 or so, and I couldn't understand a word. I read it again a year later, and I absolutely loved it. I…moreI read it through for the first time when I was 12 or so, and I couldn't understand a word. I read it again a year later, and I absolutely loved it. I think rather than getting hung up on individual words, try to get a sense of the general meaning based on the context and other hints. I've read it so many times now that I'm pretty good at interpreting the language. It gets easier to interpret the language as you continue reading the book. An audiobook version might help. Or, if you'd like to connect it with a modern day adaptation, maybe you could try the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, which is a YouTube webseries. It's a pretty interesting adaptation of the story in the modern day and it might make it easier for you the read the book if you can connect what happens with its equivalent in the modern day.(less)
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by Jane Austen
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