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| Calaf Triglot Newbie Portugal Joined 5266 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, English | Message 1 of 5 14 September 2010 at 10:42pm | IP Logged |
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Hello, good evening,
Recently I have started, almost as an accident, a collection of several translations of one of my favourite books, the Picture of Dorian Gray, as I thought it would be interesting, as a translator (or aspirant), to take a look at different versions of the same book in the most diverse languages possible. After collecting roughly 10 languages I thought it would be more challenging to actually start a language collection of the most translated book(s) ever, the Bible, as it's also easier to find and purchase. I was wondering, do you also have any collection like this? Is it easy to find translations in less known languages? 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 2 of 5 15 September 2010 at 2:48am | IP Logged |
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Another book that has been translated into many languages is Don Quijote by Cervantes. I own it and have read it in Spanish and Portuguese. I have seen it at my local library in Italian, English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Russian. I've also found it available online in Romanian, Dutch, Mandarin, Hungarian, French, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Catalan, Galician, and many more that I can't think of right now.
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| Envinyatar Diglot Senior Member Guatemala Joined 5527 days ago 147 posts - 240 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 4 of 5 15 September 2010 at 5:11am | IP Logged |
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This could help you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_works_by_numbe r_of_languages_translated_into 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5326 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 5 of 5 15 September 2010 at 12:03pm | IP Logged |
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I have the first Harry Potter book in Dutch, English, French and German and I plan on one day buying copies in Afrikaans, Greek and Italian as well.
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