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The story of a history book
19 September 2025 12:28 amThese are my kind of people -- every second person on the bus is busy reading ;-)
This second dozen of TV broadcasts for learners has a different host, a friendly young man rather than a bright young woman with the air of a primary-school teacher, and is undoubtedly but indefinably more difficult than the first set. ( Read more... )
It does come up with a couple of memorable observations, though: the lady at the lost-property office comments that the books in their possession represent the most popular books among readers, since they are the ones most often lost on public transport and hence the ones people most like to take with them :-) And the owner of the second-hand bookstall uses the sales slogan "Buy an old book, learn new things"!
This second dozen of TV broadcasts for learners has a different host, a friendly young man rather than a bright young woman with the air of a primary-school teacher, and is undoubtedly but indefinably more difficult than the first set. ( Read more... )
It does come up with a couple of memorable observations, though: the lady at the lost-property office comments that the books in their possession represent the most popular books among readers, since they are the ones most often lost on public transport and hence the ones people most like to take with them :-) And the owner of the second-hand bookstall uses the sales slogan "Buy an old book, learn new things"!