Poll: What’s the best translation of Crime and Punishment?
Now you can vote on your favorite of the 14 English translations of Crime and Punishment!
Now you can vote on your favorite of the 14 English translations of Crime and Punishment!
I don’t think I can read ANY of those books! XD
Behold! An out-of-date photo of my international collection of Harry Potter books!
These books use and teach Singlish dialect and slang expressions. The target audience includes both those who want to see their own dialect used for humorous effect and those who are unfamiliar with Singlish.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Bulgarian, Serbian, Romanian, and Slovene.
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.
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.
Cyrillic: Incomprehensible yet blessedly phonetic!
Someday, I want to get my hands on the Spanish, Dutch, and Czech translations of this same book.