When dreams are useful

[taylweaver]

On Friday morning, just before I woke up, I had a dream about getting ready to travel somewhere for Shabbat, and about going to the library. In the library, I visited the children's section to take out beginning reader books in Spanish.

When I woke up, I realized that was actually a pretty good idea, so, later in the day, I visited the library and checked out ten picture books and Harry Potter #3 in Spanish. (Why #3? Because they didn't have #1, and #2 isn't worth struggling through in a foreign language.)

The picture books range from "Maisy" books, designed for very little kids, in which Maisy goes through daily routines, clarified by illustrations that match the text to harder books like two "Olivia" books- one, I own in English and know well, and the other is a new one for me - to even harder books that are bilingual - so I can check the translation when I don't understand.

So far, my favorite is "Go, Dog Go" - it is a well-designed beginning reader book because the illustrations really tell you what the text says - and thus it is also useful for a beginning speaker - because the illustations help me understand the words.

Anyway, kudos to my subconscious on this one. Trying to read Spanish children's books is fun.

Comments

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

That's more useful than my dream last night, in which I was a soldier who'd been turned into a vampire because of secret government experiments!

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

my second year in israel i had two dreams i remember... one involved being a soldier (and my apartmentmate was my commanding officer) preparing a base against (alien?) invaders in northern israel, and the other involved hunting vampires with my brother

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

You know, you could turn that into a story.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I think the dream was based on several stories I'd read recently, actually. The only difference is that mine had vampires where the ones I'd read had werewolves and zombies.

[flintknappy.livejournal.com]

I didn't know they had Go Dog, Go in spanish. I should check that out some time. It's a fun book in English. I do have The Cat In The Hat in Yiddish.