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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5116 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes  Speaks: German*, English | Message 9 of 14 21 October 2014 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
Maybe for good-quality hard-copies, but not for ebooks, especially not Public Domain ebooks. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6393 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 10 of 14 21 October 2014 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I do agree about the price. If I could get the Swedish one for like 5$ I'd have got it already.
But human work has to be paid, of course, and that's much more work than adapting/creating a glossary. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Retinend Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4104 days ago 283 posts - 557 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French | Message 11 of 14 22 October 2014 at 11:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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I agree. If the owners are reading this, you would have a sale for the Cervantes if the
price was between 5 and 10 dollars, but not at double that. I would pay 30 for an interlinear Don Quijote, however ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4329 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 12 of 14 22 October 2014 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Does anyone know if there are any longer German text out there? I see that Interlinear has the text for Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis in ebook format for $20.
I am past the point where this would be that useful, but I am constantly bumping into people that are trying to learn German who I think would find longer interlinear texts very helpful. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5116 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 13 of 14 22 October 2014 at 2:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
If you don't mind ebook apps, doppeltext offers a free German/English ePub version of Kafka's Metamorphosis for download. You'll need Readium for Chrome or another epub3 app. They also have some other German/English books at reasonable prices.
If you're still in Germany, Onleihe (the German equivalent of Overdrive) has a couple of longer German/English epubs that you can read for free, if you're willing to wait. Visit Voebb24 and search for "dtv zweisprachig." Edited by Doitsujin on 22 October 2014 at 2:28pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6499 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 14 of 14 23 October 2014 at 11:02am | IP Logged | |||||
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When I started out making my own bilingual texts, I made interlinear versions of tales by Hans Christian Andersen using humanmade ltranslations, Excel and Word. It was a cumbersome process, and I have not felt the need to repeat the experience.
After that I made 'interspersed' versions using a quirk in Googgle translate combined with word: if I translated something and copied the translation to MS Word as text - then the original and the rnslation both appeared on the screen. The problem was that I wanted to be able to distinguish the two languages, so I had to manually recolour the translations. There was also an issue about points after abbreviations and numbers - they had the same effect as full stops after sentences. So I also dropped that format, and now I simply put the two versions side by side into columns in tables in Word, and I align the lines by manipulating fonts and column widths, which is easy and fast to do. For me this arrangement actually works better than the two others because I can choose NOT to look at the translations. The last remnant of interlinear formats in my world is the handwritten hyperliteral translations I have used to get used to languages like Irish, where the sentence constructions are quite different from those used in English and Danish. In the most extreme cases they can look as complicated as those to the right in the screen dump on the preceding page, but I try to make them look simpler by omitting the 'free' translations. Edited by Iversen on 23 October 2014 at 11:08am 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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