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How to be an Alien

 I read "How to be an Alien".

This book is going to make the English angry!

 This book is divided into two parts and has 24 chapters.

 The author wrote this book to make the English angry, but the English only said that this book was 'quite amusing'. He said he was very unhappy in the preface.

 This book said to us that it is impossible for us to become the English by making a fool of the English. I liked chapter 9. It was about the language. The author wrote how to have a good accent. The way was so funny and easy.  

 When I found this book and looked the title, I wondered it was about how to be a creature from another world. However, this was about how to be a non-citizen. This book's author had so interesting ideas. That's why I enjoyed reading very much though this book was so long.

Vocabulary

preface 序文、はしがき, get off 去る, Sumerian シュメール人の, out of it 頭が混乱して、無関係で、仲間はずれで, drive on 車を走らせ続ける, Horace ホラティウス, Montaigne モンテーニュ, fight a war 戦争をする, knock down (人)をはねる、(建物・機械など)を取り壊す, by heart そらで, soul 精神、情熱, Slav スラブ人, go(get) down on one's knees=drop(fall, sink) to one's knees ひざまずく, shoot oneself (銃で)自殺する, supper 夕食, Jew ユダヤ人, Polish ポーランドの, Yiddish イディッシュ語(の), the Sultan トルコ皇帝, the Czar (特にロシアの)皇帝, queue 列を作る, hypocrite 偽善者, 

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