25 Mar 20
@ghost-of-a-duke saidAlas, Ghost of a Duke, simply loving them is not enough. It's about the number of languages. I also read SOME of them in French and SOME in Latin.
I only read them in English, but loved them as a kid.
25 Mar 20
@rookie54 saidWhen I moved to Indonesia, I threw myself into learning the language with considerable gusto.
@FMF
the story must be enhanced by reading it in several languages
i'm inspired to learn another language
Two of the things I did were reading the Bible, OT and NT, cover to cover, and buying all the Asterix comics which ~ interestingly enough ~ were shorn of a fair bit of the humour by [I suspect] the translators not actually getting all the references and the irony and the wordplay etc.
Still, it was excellent for delivering dialogue in the most concise and slangy/natural/real way - which is closer to the street-level/on the bus language than the stuff you absorb when learning the language in a grammatically conservative way.
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26 Mar 20
@fmf saidI'd get the same thrill when Asterix drank the magic potion as I did when Popeye ate his spinach.
I read ALL the Asterix comics in two languages!
