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Does your language control you? Further reading and viewing! Read More »
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Bulgarian, Serbian, Romanian, and Slovene.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Bulgarian, Serbian, Romanian, and Slovene Read More »
Orwell had it wrong. You don’t have to change or destroy existing records to change the truth. You just have to bury them under a slew of new ones.
Review of 1984 by George Orwell Read More »
This book is mind-blowing! My French teacher had it when I was in high school… 20 years later I was thrilled when I found a copy of my own.
Mots D’Heures: Gousses, Rames Read More »
Cyrillic: Incomprehensible yet blessedly phonetic!
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Russian Read More »
This “review” contains quotes from the book and explanations for why I chose them.
Someday, I want to get my hands on the Spanish, Dutch, and Czech translations of this same book.
Calvin and Hobbes Books in Translation Read More »
This “review” consists of some quotes from the book and explanations for why I chose them.
Review of I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume (translated by Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson) Read More »
I’d bet far more people have heard of this influential Chinese classic than have read it.
Review of The Art of War by Sun Tzu (translated by Lionel Giles) Read More »
Quibble how you will about inaccuracies in the depiction of linguistics, the fact that Hollywood deigns to depict a linguist at all is nice.
Review and Summary of Arrival (2016 movie) Read More »
