Thread:Waterwecna/@comment-4900559-20120922193848/@comment-4062486-20120927194227

You are welcome! I do understand you, especially since I have seen myself how it is really hard to analyze some texts without the help of your professor. Yes, comparing usually isn't that hard for me and enjoy it a lot actually. I do also plan tp base my bachelor thesis on analyzing two characters from two books from Estonian literature.

As for how much you have to practice, it definitely depends on the text. Like for example if you take "Kalevipoeg", the national epic of Estonia, you would have to go over it very thoroughly at least twice to even understand the whole text (and use the dictonary while you are at it). To learn in well enough for a text, I would would say takes at least 5 times. That is mostly so because that epic was written in older estonian and in it the author uses a lot of synonyms and metaphors.