Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 1 of 5 24 March 2012 at 5:07pm | IP Logged |
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_wizarding_terms_in _translations_of_Harry_Potter - this page has a fantastic list of HP terms in various languages.
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_in_translatio n_series - character names, locations and links.
Hope this helps those that use HP for language learning!
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Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4712 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written)
| Message 2 of 5 24 March 2012 at 10:52pm | IP Logged |
That's a great link, thanks very much!
That will be definitely useful when I start reading my first HP book in Russian...
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espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5053 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani
| Message 3 of 5 06 May 2012 at 11:51pm | IP Logged |
In character names, they left out that the Spanish Crookshanks becomes Patizambo (knock-kneed?) in book 3 for one brief moment. There's a part that goes something like "Sólo era Patizambo pero ... ¿sólo era Crookshanks?"
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 4 of 5 07 May 2012 at 8:47pm | IP Logged |
Thanks!
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translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6921 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 5 of 5 08 May 2012 at 2:55am | IP Logged |
The French translator put in so much time and thought into translating the names, while the Spanish translator opted not to translate anything:
Hogwarts (French: poudlard - pig's fleas), Spanish = Hogwarts
Boggart - french: Épouvantard, Spanish: Boggart
Demenentor - French: détraqueur, Spanish: dementor
Sorting Hat - French: Choixpeau (Choix =choice, chapeau= hat) , Spanish: El sombrero seleccionador (selecting hat)
Muggle - French: Moldu (masculine, always capitalised), Spanish: Muggle
Snitch - French: le Vif d'or ("vif" = quick, brisk, vivid ; idea of speed) Spanish: la Snitch dorada
Ravenclaw - French: Serdaigle, Spanish: Ravenclaw
Hufflepuff - French: Poufsouffle, Spanish: Hufflepuff
Slytherin - French: Serpentard, Spanish: Slytherin
Edited by translator2 on 11 May 2012 at 12:19am
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