Vietnamese books
Whenever I travel, I visit the bookstores.
The Little Prince in Translation
Here are my copies of The Little Prince in Lao(atian), Khmer (the language of Cambodia), Vietnamese, Portuguese, the original French, and Italian.
Review of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (translated by a commitee)
There must be better translations out there. I just read the free one from Gutenberg.
Why Chinese is hard
7. “There are too many [romanization methods], and most of them were designed either by committee or by linguists, or — even worse — by a committee of linguists.”
