|
 |
Best languages for comics/graphic novels | ||
Tags: Magazines | Comic Strip/Cartoon | ||
 Language Learning Forum : Books, Literature & Reading |  | |
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6656 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes  Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 1 of 7 06 March 2007 at 8:19am | IP Logged | ||
|
I was wondering which were the most useful languages for comic fans. Personally, I think French (Astérix, Tintin, XIII,...) and Italian (Dylan Dog, Corto Maltese,...) are very good to know if you like comic books. There are a lot of comic books in English, too, but you have to like superhero stories. And of course, there are Japanese mangas...
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| japkorengchi Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6671 days ago 334 posts - 355 votes | Message 2 of 7 06 March 2007 at 8:34am | IP Logged | ||
|
I will go for Japanese. It's a very good language for otaku with all sorts of light literature available from normal to crazy topics.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6881 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 3 of 7 06 March 2007 at 11:12am | IP Logged | ||
I agree! You can find comics (manga) on virtually any topic. I recently bought one aimed at economics students (for only 3 euros in a bookstore in Amsterdam). Once I have the time, I'm going to find out exactly how the writer goes about making such a dry subject (in my personal opinion) into a readable manga. ^_^ French is also a good language for reading comics and judging by the number of comics I've seen in some stores here, I'd think that Dutch was also a good language for reading comics, though I don't know how many of them are 'home-grown'. Edited by lady_skywalker on 06 March 2007 at 11:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mississippienne Newbie United States Joined 6451 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 7 26 March 2007 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | ||
|
Koreans and Chinese have their own versions of manga, manwha and manhua respectively. And don't count out English comics! Even the superhero genres are much more diverse than a casual glance would tell you. There's little to no resemblance between Garth Ennis' "Preacher", Alan Moore's "Watchmen", Brian K. Vaughn's "Y: The Last Man", or Patrick Milligan's "Enigma", for instance. All of them are superb works of art which take on one aspect or another of the superhero trope, and yet they have very little in common in theme or story.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| brian00321 Senior Member United States Joined 6589 days ago 143 posts - 148 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 5 of 7 26 March 2007 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
|
Japanese, no doubt. I've been looking everywhere for popular German,
French, and Spanish comics and haven't had any luck. Any recommendations? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6438 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 6 of 7 01 April 2007 at 4:54pm | IP Logged | ||
|
French and Italian are the top dogs here. There's an incredible wealth of comics originally in those two languages and they translate heaps from American comics, other European languages and the Japanese manga. I've seen French translations even of Chinese and Korean comics. Of course English and Japanese as well. For Slavic languages Serbo-Croatian without any doubt.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| uman Diglot Groupie United States umanwizard.com Joined 6926 days ago 58 posts - 61 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 7 of 7 05 April 2007 at 2:40am | IP Logged | ||
|
French is definitely a big player in the "bande dessinée" (comic book) world. Reading comic books is a big part of French culture (especially youth culture) that isn't even present in the United States.
Edit: Sorry I just realized you're from France! So you probably already know French. The very fact that you asked this sort of question should have given you away :-P. Edited by uman on 05 April 2007 at 2:41am 1 person has voted this message useful |
If you wish to post a reply to this topic you must first login. If you are not already registered you must first register
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
