Princeton University Press Books in Translation (overview)
I don’t think I can read ANY of those books! XD
Just for Fun
Harry Potter Books in Translation (overview)
Behold! An out-of-date photo of my international collection of Harry Potter books!
Threelogy Lah by Casey Chen
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.
Does your language control you? Further reading and viewing!
Book: Through the Language Glass · Website: Language Weirdness Index · Movie: Arrival · TED Talk: Lera Boroditsky on Linguistic Relativity · Video: Color Naming Patterns
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.
Review of 1984 by George Orwell
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.
Mots D’Heures: Gousses, Rames
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.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Russian
Cyrillic: Incomprehensible yet blessedly phonetic!
Calvin and Hobbes Books in Translation
Someday, I want to get my hands on the Spanish, Dutch, and Czech translations of this same book.
Review and Summary of Arrival (2016 movie)
Quibble how you will about inaccuracies in the depiction of linguistics, the fact that Hollywood deigns to depict a linguist at all is nice.