czandra wrote: ↑February 21st, 2022, 5:34 am
or you get through chapter after chapter of a heavy ontology book, bravely wielding Old English, French, German, Latin, even Greek, then get to the end and find an entire passage of Dante's inferno waiting for you in the original Italian, which you do not speak. Sigh.
Cz
Yikes!
You do speak Old English, French, German, Latin, and Greek? I'm impressed...
Back from a low-internet no-Librivox year in Georgia. Glad to be with you again.
I don't speak them all, but I can read them. For Greek, there was a whole paragraph I had to ask rapunzelina to read for me so I could parrot it back. To do the Dante, I listened to the LV recording of it in Italian (couldn't find the exact passage, though), just to get the cadence, which is half of speaking a language! We're still looking for one reader for "Les anciens canadiens", by the way! Last chapter.
Congrats on your book! I have a new one this month too, "Asking for Trouble," a book of tanka. Don't you just hate it when your publisher changes the cover art at the zero hour??
Czandra
I asked my librarian about the noise, and she said, "no one would come here
if they weren't allowed to talk out loud." So I read out loud.
Je lis à haute voix car refléchir fait trop de bruit!
On my solo, I was recording chapter 6 when i ran into a conversation where Lucia's name is discussed. It's meant to be pronounced like Lucy-a. I did wonder at first how to pronounce it and went with Lu-CHEE-a. So now I get to go back and patch in edits on the previous 5 chapters.
That's what I get for not pre-reading my material, I guess.
I had a similar thing, reading Lieu - tenant like a french speaker. Had to redo 4 chapters to read LOO- TENant because it was an American book. In Canada we read it Leftenant.... Nuts
What's the point in recording if you have to read it all first!
I asked my librarian about the noise, and she said, "no one would come here
if they weren't allowed to talk out loud." So I read out loud.
Je lis à haute voix car refléchir fait trop de bruit!
DYH when the abandoned projects thread has 2 books that you'd like to adopt, but the linguistic aspects of the texts intimidate you? Specifically, I'm talking about "An Adventure", which is full of French (predictably, because it tells the story of an investigation into the French history delving into the orginal sources) and "English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World", which has multiple examples of a really archaic language...
Want to hear some PREPARATION TIPS before you press "record"? Listen to THIS and THIS
Piotrek81 wrote: ↑December 7th, 2022, 1:36 pm
DYH when the abandoned projects thread has 2 books that you'd like to adopt, but the linguistic aspects of the texts intimidate you? Specifically, I'm talking about "An Adventure", which is full of French (predictably, because it tells the story of an investigation into the French history delving into the orginal sources) and "English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World", which has multiple examples of a really archaic language...
Same. I did, in fact, take the plunge and claimed Dante's Divina Commedia, written ENTIRELY IN ITALIAN, a language of which I have minimal grasp. Hopefully it's similar enough to Spanish Any tips for us readers of languages which we are not fluent in? (BTW, is the archaic language Old English? Because it is SO neat!)
2 Timothy 1:7. Look it up.
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So now I get to go back and patch in edits on the previous 5 chapters.
, classics
, and art
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