Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (German Language 9 Audio compact discs edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) (German Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is meant to assist other customers looking for German language editions of the Harry Potter audiobooks--they are misclassified under "Music" especially since many of them are sold as a single disc in mp3 format.

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Harry Potter E il Prigioniero D'Azkaban (Italian Edition) Review

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I'm sorry if my English isn't so good, but I'm 15 and I'm italian...I think Harry Potter books are ideal for who wanna expand vocabulary while learning a foreign language, cos' HP is been translated in a hoard of languages. So, if you are learning the fantastic italian language, it's for you. The language used isn't formal, but the high quantity of new words can be frustrating...ma l'italiano non è poi così difficile...I think this is also the best of the series, so I advise it to everybody!

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Harry Potter Und der Gefangene Von Askaban (Harry Potter (German)) (German Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Preface: I am not a native German speaker and I read the book in English before reading it in German.
While reading a book about flubberworms and magic potions is difficult from the standpoint of new vocabulary, it is so exciting and satisfying when you realize that you are enjoying the story and not just the struggle to understand a foreign language. This is definitely a good way to maintain or add to a good, but not perfect facility with German as a second language.

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Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens Review

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(More customer reviews)"Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens" is the German translation of the second Harry-Potter-book. I think I don't have to tell you anything about the story - see the reviews of the English version for details (besides: who wants to read more about the content of such a book than the back page offers - it would spoil some of the fun since the Potter books are in part a crime story!).
The translation is - judging from my reading experience - well done and worth reading. The language is not too complicated so the book qualifies as reading stuff for a foreigner wishing to practice his German reading skills. I didn't find any translation mistakes - the language sounded genuine German and was vivid and fun to read. The names (always a problem when translating) are not altered, so some of the flair that comes with the nicely selected names of the original is lost to the non-English reader. But this second book shows that this is the right way to go: there is a name-letter-puzzle which plays a key role in this book and translating that one would have been a very hard task indeed.
So the translation receives 5 stars, all well earned for the content as for the translation.
My final note goes to the discussion if this book is for adults as well as teenagers or not: anyone waiting for deep insights into the society, mankind and the world we live in will be disappointed when reading this book. But it is by far the best youth book I ever read, 350 fast pacing pages and I never regretted that I bought it. Nobody whants to read Joyce all the time. And when I turn too light reading stuff, I expect quality as well. Here is where this book has its place in the adult market.

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Harry Potter Und der Stein der Weisen (German Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Chances are if your thinking on buying this book in German, you've probably already read the Englsih version, so I won't bog you down with any lengthy opinion on the story itself except to say it is a modern classic, full of mystery and suspense that can be enjoyed by kids and adults alike.
Foreign language versions of English novels are notoriously difficult to translate, largely due to the high number of English words which have no exact translation in say, German or French. But on the whole, this was an exceptionally translated peice, with no major blunders sticking out (the Spanish version is full of them) The most obvious chnage is of "Hermione" to "Hermine" Perhaps Hermione would feel strange to pronounce to a native German speaker, not sure on that one.
A lot of people will tell you Spanish and French are far easier to learn than German. I found German more fun to learn, most people who say it is a difficult, technical language do not know that English and German belong in the same group of languages (Germanic) French, Spanish and Italian are in a completely different group (Romantic) So to brush up on language skills, or just to have fun reading a novel in another language, HP is probably the most fun and easy to understand novel on the market.

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