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             Translation Tango

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DURATION
You set the pace

HOW TO

Option One:
Chose a level and read books that have been translated from their original language to the language you will be reading it in

Option Two:
Chose a level and do a "spell it out" of translator names

Spell-it-out rules
Using the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter in the series name, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter in the audiobook narrators first or last name. As always, if the first letter of a title starts with ‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’, etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.


LEVELS

Linguist: 1-5 books
Foreigner: 6-10 books
Got ya Grammar : 11-15 books
Lexical: 16-20 books
Verbal: 21-25 books
Interpreter: 26 or more

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I will try it. Option 2. I will use the next translator that I come across.

C The Cat
A Magic Burns
T The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
H The Darkest Part of the Forest Holly Black
Y Yang Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

H Unhinged A.G. Howard
I The Whistling Season Ivan Doig
R Roxie and the Hooligans
A The Sweetest Dark Shana Abe
N Bad Kitty Meets the Baby Nick Bruel
O O'Neil In the Woods

Waiting on next translator

NBRC's Translation Tango Challenge
Started November 5, 2016
Going with Option 2

27 out of 27 Books Completed
(Both translators of the Harry Potter series- German and Spanish)

K - Cindy Kirk, Christmas in Good Hope 11/11
L - Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl 11/9
A - Amanda M. Lee, The Trouble With Witches 11/7
U - Untraceable 12/16
S - Skulduggery Pleasant 11/9

F - Bernard K. Finnigan, When Halloween Was Green 11/8
R - Ready for Love 11/6
I - It Lives in The Basement 11/8
T - The Snake of Snowspire 11/10
Z - Zoe Chant, Tropical Tiger Spy 11/26

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G - G.P. Ching, The Soulkeepers 12/8
E - Jaymin Eve, Ash 11/23
M - Maid for Love 11/5
M - Marie Force, Fool for Love 11/6
A - Admit One 11/13

R - Janna Raynes, Bearly Pucked 11/1023
O - Caitlyn O'Leary, Her Daring SEAL 11/5
V - Virginia Jewel, Nuptials for Sale 12/2
I - Imperfect Chemistry 11/18
R - Nora Roberts, The Last Boyfriend 11/26
A - Alma Venus Shifter-Brides: The Complete Series 11/15

O - Caitlyn O'Leary, Her Fierce SEAL 11/6
R - Nora Roberts, Blood Brothers 11/20
T - T S Paul, Conjuring Quantico 11/11
E - E.B. White, Charlotte's Web 11/27
G - The Great Brownie Taste-Off 12/8
A - Anne Frank, The Diary of A Young Girl 11/22

Cool idea for all the German and Polish books I read (I hope to read at least 12 of those translated into Polish)

Translation Tango
Level: Interpreter
Start Date: 11/6/2016
Completed: 0/50+

German:
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3. Feuer (Karen Rose)
4. Allwissend (Jeffrey Deaver)
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10. Jeder ist normal...
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12. Quo-Vadis?
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Polish:
1. Moby Dick
2. Zdrada Bourne'a
3. Miłość w wielkim mieście
4. Pakt Holfcrofta
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English:
1. Quo-Vadis?
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Just in case :-)

This one's great! I'll go for Option 1 at The Foreigner level.

1) We
2) Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
3) MM9
4) Lolita
5) Crime and Punishment
6) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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8) ?
9) ?
10) ?

I'll give this a try - let's see how far I can get by just reading, step by step! :-)

Translation Tango - Option 1
Duration: November 6, 2016 - ?
Level: Linguist
Read: 4/5

1: English → German: The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan (12/5/16)
2: English → German: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (3/5/17)
3: Portuguese → German: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (05/07/17)
4: English → German: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (10/13/17)
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Translation Tango
DURATION: You set the pace
Option Two: Chose a level and do a "spell it out" of translator names
Level: Interpreter: 26 or more
Progress: 33/33

COMPLETE

D.- Snow Dog, Go Dog by Deborah Heiligman 12/7/16
W.- Water Sings Blue by Kate Coombs 7/19/2017
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L- Look! Look! Look! at Sculpture by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace 12/14/16
O- Ora the Sea Monster by Cari Meister 7/18/2017
V- Valentine Mice! by Bethany Roberts 7/18/2017
E- Birthday Pet, The by Ellen Javernick 7/18/2017
T- Terrible, Awful, Horrible Manners! by Beth Bracken 7/18/2017
T- Too Shy for Show-And-Tell by Beth Bracken 7/18/2017

L- Leaves! Leaves! Leaves! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace 12/14/16
E- Every-Day Dress-Up by Selina Alko 7/19/2017
E- Every Friday by Dan Yaccarino 7/19/2017
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C- Crabby Pants by Julie Gassman 7/18/2017
H- Hello, Goodbye, and a Very Little Lie by Christianne C. Jones 7/18/2017
A- Alphabet House by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace 12/14/16
D- Duck & Goose, How Are You Feeling? by Tad Hills 7/19/2017
E- Every Little Thing: Based on the song 'Three Little Birds' by Bob Marley by Bob Marley 7/19/2017
A- Bathtime for Biscuit: My First I Can Read by Alyssa Satin Capucilli 12/7/16
Y- Imadoki!: Nowadays, Vol. 4 by Yuu Watase 1/17/17
N- The Valentine Express by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace 12/14/16
E- Elmo's Little Dreidel (Sesame Street) by Naomi Kleinberg 7/19/2017

J- I Even Funnier by James Patterson 12/6/16
O- My Kitten by Margaret O'Hair 12/14/16
R- Rocks! Rocks! Rocks! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace 12/14/16
D- Duck & Goose by Tad Hills 7/19/2017
I- Imadoki! Nowadays, Vol. 1 by Yuu Watase 1/16/17
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C- The Messy One by Christianne C. Jones 7/18/2017
A- Bear Hugs by Alyssa Satin Capucilli 12/7/16
S- Stars! Stars! Stars! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace 12/14/16
T- Tell-A-Bunny by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace 12/14/16
E- Elmo's 12 Days of Christmas by Sarah Albee 7/19/2017
L- Look! Look! Look! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace 12/14/16
L- Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena 12/7/16
S- Shells! Shells! Shells! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace 12/14/16

This is so exciting! I suggested this! Now to search for books!

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Foreigner: 6-10 books- I am going to do the first option
1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 2.13.2017 3* Original Language- French, Setting- France.
2. Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea 8.8.2017 3* Original Language- Arabic, Setting- Saudi Arabia
3. Human Acts by Han Kang 12.13.2017 4* Original Language- Korean, Setting- South Korea
4. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō Original Language- Japanese
4. Savage Theories by Pola Oloixarac Original Language- Spanish, Setting- Argenitina
5. Kaveena by Boubacar Boris Diop Original Language- French, Setting- Fictitious West African Country
6. On Loving Women by Diane Obomsawin Original Language- French, Setting- Canada
7. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin Original Language- Chinese
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welcome to the challenge everyone!

I'm in! I plan to complete this challenge in 1 year.
1. The Alchemist
2. Night
3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
4. Let the Right One In
5. The Vegetarian
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude
7. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
8. Eleven Minutes
9. Signs Preceding the End of the World
10. Love in the Time of Cholera

Welcome to the challenge Kendra :)

I finished my first book, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. It was originally written in French. I did not really enjoy it, but I did get to learn about France more and that was interesting.

Translation Tango
DURATION: You set the pace
I'l try for Interpreter Level (26).
Books read so far: 17

Option One:
Chose a level and read books that have been translated from their original language to the language you will be reading it in

1. The Republic (ancient Greek) 7/29/2017
2. Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse (Chinese) 8/4/2017
3. The Harvard Classics - Plutarch's Lives 9/6/2017
4. Frogs by Aristophanes 9/24/2017
5. The Birds 10/28/2017
6. Njal's Saga 2/1/2018
7. Invisible Cities 5/28/2018
8. One Woman's War: Da (Mother) the Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni Paperback 6/11/2018
9. The Aeneid 6/20/2018
10. Utopia 7/6/2018
11. Tao Te Ching 7/14/2018
12. The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone 7/27/2018
13. Hecuba 7/28/2018
14. Andromache 7/28/2018
15. The Iliad 8/9/2018
16. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 8/21/2018
17. Tales of Moonlight and Rain 11/3/2018

planned:
Metamorphoses (own)
Songs of Kabir (own)
The Golden Ass
Meditations
We
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Conference of the Birds
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Solaris

Challenge complete

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Welcome Beth!

Congrats Ashley!! Way to go!

Sorry you didn't enjoy your book Sheila! Hopefully the next one will be better.

I just finished Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea. It focused on the romantic lives of four female friends in Saudi Arabia. It was an interesting look at the culture and how the idea of romance and love is at odds sometimes with family obligations.

Translation Tango
DURATION: Open
Option Two: "spell it out" of translator names
Level: Interpreter: 26 or more

Henning Koch
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Sam Garrett
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Good luck again, Ashley M!

I just finished Human Acts by Han Kang. It is a beautiful and devastating book. I listened to the audiobook and the actors did a wonderful job.

Read books that have been translated from their original language to the language you will be reading it in:

2018
Britt-Marie Was Here , Fredrik Backman, translated by Henning Koch
The Reader , The Reader, translated by Carol Brown Janeway
The Outcast, Luigi Pirandello, translated by Leo Ongley

Welcome Daisy!

Duration: January 01, 2018 -
Level: Interpreter
[0/26]

1. Let the Right One In
2. The Girl Who Played with Fire
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
4. The Shadow of the Wind

Welcome to the challenge Am!

Nothing But Reading Challenges
Translation Tango
Duration: 6/21/2019 - Til Done!

Progress: 14 out of 26
LEVELS
Linguist: 1-5 books
Foreigner: 6-10 books
Got ya Grammar : 11-15 books
Lexical: 16-20 books
Verbal: 21-25 books
Interpreter: 26 or more

DURATION
You set the pace

HOW TO

Option One:
Chose a level and read books that have been translated from their original language to the language you will be reading it in

1. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald - ***** - 2/7/2020 - 394 Pages
2. Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver - *** - 5/29/2020 - 194 Pages
3. Beartown by Fredrik Backman - ***** - 7/9/2020 - 418 Pages
4. The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna - *** - 10/14/2020 - 135 Pages
5. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen - **** - 2/11/2021 - 96 Pages
6. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - * - 1/6/2022 - 928 Pages
7. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski - ***** - 1/30/2022 - 352 Pages
8. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz - ***** - 2/23/2022 - 347 Pages
9. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis - **** - 4/24/2022 - 368 Pages
10. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren - **** - 4/27/2022 - 160 Pages
11. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman - ***** - 4/29/2022 - 372 Pages
12. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - ***** - 8/1/2022 - 85 Pages
13. Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena Ernman - *** - 8/22/2022 - 288 Pages
14. If Only It Were True by Marc Levy - ***** - 1/30/2023 - 216 Pages
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