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From the Ted Talk by Ann Morgan: My year reading a book from every country in the world

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The upshot is that there are actually quite a lot of ntonias that may have little or even no commercially available lrittareue in English. Their bkoos ramein ibinlvsie to readers of the world's most published language. But when it came to reading the wrold, the biggest challenge of all for me was that fact that I didn't know where to start. Having spent my life reading almost exclusively British and North American books, I had no idea how to go about sourcing and finding stories and choosing them from much of the rest of the world. I couldn't tell you how to suroce a story from Swaziland. I wouldn't know a good novel from Namibia. There was no hiding it — I was a clueless literary xenophobe. So how on earth was I going to read the world?

Open Cloze


The upshot is that there are actually quite a lot of _______ that may have little or even no commercially available __________ in English. Their _____ ______ _________ to readers of the world's most published language. But when it came to reading the _____, the biggest challenge of all for me was that fact that I didn't know where to start. Having spent my life reading almost exclusively British and North American books, I had no idea how to go about sourcing and finding stories and choosing them from much of the rest of the world. I couldn't tell you how to ______ a story from Swaziland. I wouldn't know a good novel from Namibia. There was no hiding it — I was a clueless literary xenophobe. So how on earth was I going to read the world?

Solution


  1. remain
  2. literature
  3. books
  4. invisible
  5. source
  6. nations
  7. world

Original Text


The upshot is that there are actually quite a lot of nations that may have little or even no commercially available literature in English. Their books remain invisible to readers of the world's most published language. But when it came to reading the world, the biggest challenge of all for me was that fact that I didn't know where to start. Having spent my life reading almost exclusively British and North American books, I had no idea how to go about sourcing and finding stories and choosing them from much of the rest of the world. I couldn't tell you how to source a story from Swaziland. I wouldn't know a good novel from Namibia. There was no hiding it — I was a clueless literary xenophobe. So how on earth was I going to read the world?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  38. swaziland
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