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Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos
5.0
Really, very good.
Picked this up because I tried to learn Spanish this year and have been watching a lot of translated Japanese media (fully in the vtuber hole), and I'm starting to see the cracks around the way we teach and experience different languages in English. This was such a good choice, I absolutely adored it. Bellos takes a complicated subject and breaks it down in manageable chapters and topics, with insight and understated but very effective humor. I constantly had the "Oh my God, yeah you're right!" thought as he explained how he thought about and how the field thinks about translation in a way I've never considered. Really if you are interested in the process of translation at all, you should pick this up.
5/5 stars, I loved it.
Picked this up because I tried to learn Spanish this year and have been watching a lot of translated Japanese media (fully in the vtuber hole), and I'm starting to see the cracks around the way we teach and experience different languages in English. This was such a good choice, I absolutely adored it. Bellos takes a complicated subject and breaks it down in manageable chapters and topics, with insight and understated but very effective humor. I constantly had the "Oh my God, yeah you're right!" thought as he explained how he thought about and how the field thinks about translation in a way I've never considered. Really if you are interested in the process of translation at all, you should pick this up.
5/5 stars, I loved it.