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| markchapman Diglot Groupie Taiwan tesolzone.com/ Joined 5283 days ago 44 posts - 55 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Portuguese | Message 17 of 25 06 December 2010 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 5851 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 18 of 25 20 February 2011 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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My local library stocks Asterix in both English and Welsh versions. Admittedly I learnt to read English from Asterix and Tintin when I was a kid.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6514 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 25 20 February 2011 at 10:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I only own a Latin and a Low German Asterix, but I have read a couple of them in French plus probably the complete series in Danish through loans from the local library. It would be fun to have the collection in languages that reflected the themes, including the one about vikings in Old Norse, the British one in Welsh (or maybe Anglosaxon), the German one in Old High German, the Belgian in half Flemish, half French and the Spanish one in Spanish ... or even better: each of these PLUS the original version in French. And yes, these languages would all be anachronistic - but so is French.
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5577 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 20 of 25 08 December 2011 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love Asterix too - I only seem to be able to read them in French though; my brain seems
to have a mental block on reading them in any other language. I was in Forbes in London a few months ago and attempted to read one or two in German and Latin, but I had to put them down and get the French versions. I didn't much like French before getting into Asterix, but now I love French and I think Asterix, and the discovery of BDs in general, is a massive part of that. Jack 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4820 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 21 of 25 09 December 2011 at 1:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Asterix is wonderful! Asterix and Cleopatra was the first book in French I had ever got and read. But I had no idea it was translated to Latin as well.
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| Christine Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6437 days ago 41 posts - 47 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Japanese, Modern Hebrew | Message 22 of 25 03 March 2012 at 6:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have read all of the Asterix volumes up to "Asterix and the Falling Sky", I just couldn't stand the thought of aliens visiting the Gaulish village. When I was a child, we only had the German versions, but later I got a copy of "Asterix and the Goths" in Bavarian German (funny) and also read "Asterix and the Magic Carpet" in Swabian German (even funnier). But reading foreign-language Asterix versions is a great idea, and since I need to improve my French anyway, I guess it's about time to get hold of the originals. Edited by Christine on 03 March 2012 at 6:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4700 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 23 of 25 07 June 2012 at 3:00am | IP Logged | ||
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I just ordered my first Asterix and Tintin books ... I'll finally get to see what they hype is about. I'm looking forward to it!
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| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5693 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 24 of 25 07 June 2012 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't seen this thread before!
I'm a BIG fan of Asterix. I've read that again and again since I was a kid, already started to read it to my little son and have been a member of an internet "Quiz about Asterix" group since 2004 (in Orkut). I have all Portuguese, French and German books, a few in Latin and one in Esperanto. Edited by Flarioca on 07 June 2012 at 5:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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