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3283807 No.3283807 [Reply] [Original]

sup lit,

which translation of Don Quixote do you recommend?

(I don't mind archaic English btw)

inb4readitinspanish

>> No.3283817

I read Smollet's. It was fucking phenomenal and hilarious.

>> No.3283837

EN UN LUGAR DE LA MANCHA
AT SOME PLACE IN THE STAIN
read it in spanish
it's not that hard

>> No.3283859

>>3283837
>EN UN LUGAR DE LA MANCHA
You chose one of the easiest lines from the book. It's extremely hard.

>> No.3283882

readitinspanish

>> No.3283891

>>3283859
I guess you could say that, yeah for a non-native spanish speaker yeah, I guess it's pretty much like me reading Shakespeare.
Unless you know some spanish (and are willing to expand your vocabulary) very little words are considered archaic.
But yes, you'll be using the dictionary a lot.

>> No.3283977

>>3283859

Any worthwhile edition in Spanish will have extensive footnotes including definitions for the more archaic words in the book.
As far as the style it's much more akin to modern Spanish than Shakespeare is to modern English.

>> No.3284004

>que siento cuando que no sepa espanol muy bien

>> No.3284015

>>3284004

Learn that shit or Latin and then watch as the other Romance languages become easy to learn.

>> No.3284035

>>3284015
I've taken all the levels of it at my community collegewithout putting in any effort so I have a pretty basic grasp on all the grammar. Sentence construction is still a little difficult for me though.

I'm going through Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short stories with the Spanish version and the English version side by side to help get better at it though. I'm starting to wish I had actually put effort into it when I was in class though because the vocabulary is biting me in the butt right now.

>> No.3284039

>>3283977

>dat feel when I could finally read Shakespeare in English (non native speaker BTW)

>> No.3284048

>>3284004
That google translator.

>Ese sentimiento cuando no sé muy bien español.

>> No.3284047

I used to know a good bit of Spanish back in high school. I should really pick it back up again.

Does Rosetta Stone work as well as people say? I remember some basic vocabulary and some of the grammatical rules, but I'd probably have to go through from a near-starting point again.

>> No.3284042

>>3284004
you wot m8?

>> No.3284049

>>3284042
exactly ;_;

>> No.3284052

http://www.h-net.org/~cervant/csa/artics-f06/lathrop2sf06.pdf

>> No.3284060

>>3284048
Corrijo, sensación quedaría mejor.

>> No.3284061

>>3284048
That definitely wasn't google translator. I don't think google tries to put things in the subjunctive.

>> No.3284062

>>3284035

I wouldn't recommend Gabo if you're vocabulary is shit because you will be looking shit up in the dictionary every other word.
Read Cortazar's short stories instead, his style is simple but elegant and apart from some regionalisms shouldn't give you much trouble.

>> No.3284070

>>3284062
Sweet thanks a lot!

>> No.3284240

Tobias Smollett is my preferred translation. He was a contemporary of Cervantes and I like it best.

Edith Grossman's more recent translation is acclaimed by Harold Bloom who also wrote a terrible introduction for it. She's also done a lot of spanish translations by Gabo and some other niggas like Vargas Llosa.

I'd say Smollett, it was laughing more while reading it and I felt less bored.

>> No.3284335

>>3284062
sorry bro, but cortazar sucks dick, he has at most 2 decent short stories, Casa Tomada and the bunny story (can't recall the name)
I recomend borges or sabato's essays or ribeyro instead.

>> No.3284394

>>3284335

This dude's barely learning spanish and you want him to read georgie borgie.
lel

>> No.3284535

>>3284335
> not recommending Cortazar
> recommending Borges instead
> but Borges recommended Cortazar above all else

Wow, should I take a /lit/ turds opinion or Gorgeous Borges?

>> No.3284731

>>3284335
Excuse me, but what have you read by Cortazar?
You probably don't know shit though.