I've been writing this blog for one year. I often conducted searches of unknown words or phrases on Google and emulated examples which were written by native people. I have been managing to keep writing this blog, but I frequently realized the need for extensive reading.
Today, the afternoon schedule was cancelled and I dropped in at an antiquarian bookshop near my hospital after lunch. There are many paperbacks here. I found a paperback book "The Old Man and the Sea", written by Ernest Hemingway in the corner of the shelf. It brought back memories of my junior high school days. I bought it when I was 13. I was just a first year student at junior high school, and just after I started learning English. I thought I could understand it with an English-Japanese dictionary. Of course, it was an illusion. I couldn't read it at all. Because I looked up every word in the dictionary, I couldn't go ahead. It was a reckless attempt, I think. I have never bought any paberback since that time.
(Vocabulary)
emulate …を見習う, 手本にする
ntiquarian 古物収集［研究］家、古物商 古物収集［研究］の、古物［古書］売買の
antiquarian bookshop 古本屋、古書店
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