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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5253 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 1 of 9 30 September 2010 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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For those of you who speak Spanish, you can participate in a global reading of Don Quijote sponsored by the Real Academia Española and Youtube. I saw this in El País this morning: El 'Quijote' más grande llega al internet
The website to participate is El Quijote You have to be over 14 to participate. You click the "particpar" button and you are assigned a piece of Don Quijote to read. You have six hours to upload your video or your assigned reading will go to someone else. Sounds like a fun way to celebrate an important work of Spanish literature and speak Spanish! Edited by iguanamon on 01 October 2010 at 12:13am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6694 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 9 30 September 2010 at 7:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is that the full version? I once bought it - as far as I remember it was in SEVEN volumes in glorious oldfashioned Spanish. But I threw it out during the period where I didn't study languages.
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5253 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 4 of 9 01 October 2010 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Sí, sí, todo el libro. The reading videos last about a minute. Should be quite interesting to see!
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| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6694 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 9 01 October 2010 at 11:12am | IP Logged | ||
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To Paranday: when I had taken my final exam in French I discovered that all relevant job opportunities at the university level had already been taken. I kept my books though, but at some point I must have looked at that voluminous Cervantes thing and asked myself whether I ever would read it - and the answer was a resounding "¡no!". Even if I wanted to read Don Quixote I would go for at shortened version - and actually I have read such a version later, in spite of my general aversion to fiction.
To iguanamon: one minute per video? How many hundreds (or thousand) snippet videos will that give? I could understand it if each reader took one full chapter. In that case it might even be interesting to study the different dialects of those readers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5253 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 6 of 9 01 October 2010 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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From the BBC September 30, 2010 YouTue Drive to "Crowd-Read" Don Quijote
"Now the academy, the official guardian of the Spanish language, has divided the work into more than 2,000 segments. The academy said the campaign was aimed at promoting both the Spanish language and the famous book, which carried the full title The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha. "The Spanish language does not occupy the space that it deserves on the internet," the secretary of the academy, Dario Villanueva, said." "We want to denounce that and do something to correct it," the AFP news agency reported him as saying." Since the book is about 1,000 pages (both volumes) each segment will be about half a page. The YouTube site streams the videos one after another almost seamlessly, with a fast internet connection. Each video lasts about a minute. I'm curious to see how long it will take the world to read "Don Quijote". As of this post-time they are up to Libro I Capitulo XLI- Fragmento No.824. The videos have about half of the text shown below with the rest of the fragment linked to "Google Books". You can always follow along with a Project Gutenberg pdf. Qué interesante es mirar y escuchar la gente del todo el mundo leyendo El Quijote. ¡Ahora el caballero andante más famoso del mundo anda por todo el mundo a través del internet! Edited by iguanamon on 01 October 2010 at 3:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Felipe Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6021 days ago 451 posts - 501 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Italian, Dutch, Catalan | Message 7 of 9 05 October 2010 at 11:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is great! I only wish the segments would be longer. In my humble opinion, Don Quijote is one of the most entertaining stories ever. It was so well written and was way ahead of its time. I am currently reading it for the third time this year. Of course, the first time was in Spanish, the second in Portuguese, and now in Italian. Edited by Felipe on 06 October 2010 at 2:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5336 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 8 of 9 06 October 2010 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | ||
Normal editions of the Quijote are usually presented in two, albeit thick, volumes. And as for throwing your luxurious edition away, just be thankful there is not an inquisition anymore. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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