SQUEEE - Kids and HP

[ms_arithmancer]

What is an LJ for if not to bore my friends with things that make me happy

Comments

[zomgjess]

I think that's really cool and not boring at all.

I liked the Bartimaus trilogy. It's not HP but it is very enjoyable.

[ms_arithmancer]

Yet another recommendation from an HP friend. :D I'll have to read it. Good practice for me too, I read very little in Lithuanian anymore.

[anonymous]

That's really admirable (that sounds so odd, but I needed something stronger than just 'cool'!), Zara! Being bilingual will be so great for your kids - hope they enjoy HP!

And I loved the Amulet of Samarkand, too, when Iread it =].

[kitkats_lj]

Whoops, apparantly I hadn't logged in - that was me! :)

[ms_arithmancer]

Ooh, I wondered who that was, that knew my name and all! I was raised bilingual myself, and am happy with how that turned out.

[kimaginethis]

Oooh! I wish my children were bilingual! There are so many fantastic things, I think, that people can get out of life when they know more than one language. So much opens up to them.

Alas, I never learned another language... never too late to do it, I guess!

[dumbledore11214]

SQUEEEEEE again :-)

Are you going to read them HP in russian next? ;)

On the other hand, don't ;))

Wait till better translation will be available and Neville will actually be teaching Herbology and not Potions.

[ms_arithmancer]

Just how fond a friend you are is illustrated by the charming delusion expressed in your post! (That I *could* read HP to my kids in Russian). On a good day, I remember all of the letters and can read a very simple board book out loud. Not that I would - their nanny does that, with a far better accent!

[dumbledore11214]

if I said you can, that means you can and don't you argue with me dear :-)

[sheryll]

I wish I could read HP in other languages so that I could compare translations. I have 2 of the books in Russian (PS and PoA), 1 in Spanish, German, Portuguese and Polish. Actually, for some reason I have 2 copies of PoA in Spanish. Not sure how that happened. Still, the only ones I can read are the French versions and even then my French is so rusty I need an English/French dictionary at hand.

[inkwolf_at_last]

Just for the record, I echo everything zomgjess said. :D

Bilingualism is not only awesome in itself, they say that knowing more than one language makes learning new ones even easier. And of course, the best aid to study is cool things to read in the language!

Bartameus is awesome.

[ms_arithmancer]

Yeah, and I believe that about learning other languages, based on personal experience. It is one reason I am doing this, even while living in a small town in the Midwest where noone else speaks Lithuanian. You get a different attitude to grammar, because you truly know that there's not just one way it can work. And you have more sounds in your toolbox for speaking.

I'm looking forward to Bartimaeus now! Though it's weird to be reading it in Lithuanian, lol.

[kimaginethis]

I absolutely agree -- such wonderful attitude...

The whole trilogy was addictive.