
All Things Reading - Refold Podcast
Refold Podcast
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Translated Literature
I've tried it in Filipino and in Filipino I found hunger games really difficult and felt like it came straight. So modern Filipino has a lot of like English and Spanish loan words in it. And yeah, this was just like pure Tagalog like something from 500 years ago. I did not experience that reading Spanish translations from English. It's probably language dependent depending on the translation culture. How close culturally the languages are and things like that. Yeah. There is some benefit to reading translated works because sometimes there's ideas or ways of speaking. Or terms of phrase in English that are hard to put into Japanese but you may want to use in Japanese. But if you're just talking about like the
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