Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6333 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German
| Message 1 of 4 16 September 2007 at 6:26am | IP Logged |
I wanted to apply the listening-reading method to Chinese but I can't find any audio books in this language, let alone an audio book with an English translation!
In the audio books thread there was a link to an audio book but the text was not the same thing as the book. Other than that I can't find anything by searching on google and I can't read well enough to search on chinese websites :(
Is there anything I can do?
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sheetz Senior Member United States Joined 6368 days ago 270 posts - 356 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Mandarin
| Message 2 of 4 16 September 2007 at 7:26am | IP Logged |
At radio.cn there seems to be the audio for the first 3 Harry Potter books. Have you tried them?
http://211.89.225.81/radioview/ps/indexlist.jsp?type=1&kindi d=7
I don't know if they follow the (simplified) Chinese text exactly, but I cant imagine they would go to the trouble of retranslating the books all over again.
Edited by sheetz on 16 September 2007 at 7:32am
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Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6333 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German
| Message 3 of 4 16 September 2007 at 8:06am | IP Logged |
I heard very bad things about translations of books like Harry Potter. To apply the listening-reading method you need a literal translation but in the thread many people said the translation of Harry Potter books were horrible and completely different from the original, with many sentences ignored or added. I will give it a try but I wonder if it is possible to find traditional chinese books, that way the translation is (hopefully) going to be more literal.
Thanks anyway for the link.
PS: Thanks a lot for your links in your japanese thread, they helped a lot!
Edited by Asiafeverr on 16 September 2007 at 8:06am
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sheetz Senior Member United States Joined 6368 days ago 270 posts - 356 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Mandarin
| Message 4 of 4 16 September 2007 at 8:27am | IP Logged |
Asiafeverr wrote:
PS: Thanks a lot for your links in your japanese thread, they helped a lot! |
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You're welcome!
I also dug up this comprehensive list of translation errors found in the mainland Chinese translation of HP. It should prove quite helpful to you!
http://www.cjvlang.com/Hpotter/mehelpindex.html
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