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Is it really such a smart thing for me to be posting about Harry Potter again? *znork* =S
Anyway, someone was collecting all the Harry Potter book covers in all the different languages, so I scanned in the Chinese versions of Book 1 and 2 that I had. I cleaned this up a little from what I had before so it would be easier to see:
book 1 - china_taiwan_hk.jpg ... The black letters of the title are actually gold, the scanner just doesn't do metallic well.
| 哈 | 利 | 波 | 特 | 與 | 神 | 柲 | 的 | 魔 | 法 | 石 |
| ha1 li4 | bo1 te4 | yu3 | shen2 bi4 | de | mo2 fa3 shi2 | |||||
| Harry | Potter | and | The Mysterious Mystical Stone | |||||||
book 2 - china_taiwan_hk.jpg ... The black letters of the title are actually metallic red.
| 哈 | 利 | 波 | 特 | 與 | 消 | 失 | 的 | 密 | 室 |
| ha1 li4 | bo1 te4 | yu3 | xiao1 shi1 | de | mi4 shi4 | ||||
| Harry | Potter | and | The Missing Chamber of Secrets | ||||||
Rowling is 羅琳, "Luo2 Lin2"
MIL Woman has been appropriately play-reprimanded for not getting Book 3 & 4 (they were too heavy for her luggage *pshaw*).
MIL Woman has been admonished to bring back Book 3 & 4 for the next trip. =D
She's still reading the first two, so I haven't gotten to them yet. Just before she went back, I asked for some Elementary school level Chinese novels so that I could practice reading. I asked for Science Fiction (科幻 ke1 huan4) and Star Trek preferred. Not sure what "Star Trek" is in Chinese, but "Star Wars" is 星球大戰 (Xing1 Qiu2 Da4 Zhan4 - Planetary Big War)
But she's not into SciFi (she's into Romance, like Chinese Danielle Steele), so it was hard for her to choose. She got me The Monkey King: Journey to the West and a translated Pride and Prejudice instead. Those are both cool beans too!!! But, it didn't occur to me to ask for all four Harry Potter books =P Next trip. Next trip.
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hehe. i love pronouncing english words with chinese sounds.
I wrote up instructions on how to do it here, if you'd like to give it a go (you'd only need Part I). There are other languages available besides Chinese =)
A lot of people here have bought Chinese translations of various things to practice... One of the most common is Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "Le Petit Prince". I think that book just translates really well...
Heh, thanks for the offer =) But there's no hurry on this and MIL Woman is going back soon anyway. By then, hopefully, Book 5 will be out and Books 1-4 will be cheaper =D
I found it pretty interesting!