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| cbashara Senior Member United States adventuresinspanish. Joined 7131 days ago 186 posts - 188 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 18 15 October 2005 at 11:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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Okay, thanks for the advice. I will try picking it back up and repress my need to know and look up every single word! I'll let you know how it goes...
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| Mga Groupie United States beastie.redirectme.n Joined 7125 days ago 67 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Arabic (Written) | Message 10 of 18 30 October 2005 at 8:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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I could start a new thread for this, but I believe that it fits this thread nicely, even if it is a little bit off topic.
I am sure that many of you are familiar with Wikipedia. It is a great source of information, particularly about languages. What I find very helpful, though, is reading articles from Wikipédia, the French Wikipedia. You might find the Spanish Wikipedia to be a useful source of reading material. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7017 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 18 30 October 2005 at 9:05am | IP Logged | |||||
Where did you find all these translations? On Amazon? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cbashara Senior Member United States adventuresinspanish. Joined 7131 days ago 186 posts - 188 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 18 30 October 2005 at 10:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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I use Wikipedia all the time in my tutoring. I never even thought to explore the Spanish version, what a great idea!
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| Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7126 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish | Message 13 of 18 30 October 2005 at 11:04am | IP Logged | |||||
I got the Spanish and Latin ones at the local Barnes and Noble and the French one from Amazon. As for the Swedish ones, I bought them in Sweden. Lucky, since I haven't been able to find *any* Swedish books in the US. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7079 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 14 of 18 06 November 2005 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
If you want some Swedish books, a seller on eBay Australia has a lot listed (70 or so) at the moment and ships worldwide. http://books.search.ebay.com.au/_Fiction-Literature_W0QQcatr efZC12QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsacatZ270QQsassZjanhannah 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7190 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 15 of 18 06 November 2005 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm currently trying to read Harry Potter in Russian. This books is notorious for being very poorly translated, but from a learners stand point, this is very good. The reason people consider the book to be so poorly translated, is that the translator used many simplified phrases and a rather small vocabulary. However, if you're reading the book to gain practice in the language and learn new words, I see this as a pro, not a con.
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| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7240 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 16 of 18 08 November 2005 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I find translations of things that were originally in English, for learning purposes. This is because I want to already be familiar with the story before I go into it, so that I can pick stuff out of context & avoid ever having to pick up a dictionary. I don’t understand every passage at first though. I do read passages more that once to see if I can figure it all out, because that will stay with me much longer. Many times I’ll take a final pass over a book just to underline words that aren’t familiar, to look those up.
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