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philodice (프로필 보기) 2011년 4월 17일 오후 9:22:54
If I can get my book translated, which I'm not picky about speed, I have a few options.
The first: Just straight Esperanto from beginning to end.
The second: EO and English trade off paragraph following paragraph so a beginner could read along easily, with glossary for uncommon/rare EO words at the end.
The third: Straight Esperanto with unusual or uncommon words in a glossary at the end of each chapter where they appear the first time, with the full text appearing in English in a separate half of the book.
Does anyone have other suggestions? (Aside from the fact that I need to learn Esperanto more quickly if this is to happen at all, or find help.)
3rdblade (프로필 보기) 2011년 4월 17일 오후 11:43:34
So, I would suggest more or less what Razlem said, English on the verso and Esperanto on the recto. I'd also suggest a dozen or so charming colour pictures throughout, with captions from the EO text. I mention that because I was recently given a very attractive collection of Czech fables in EO (Valda Vinar's Ĉeĥaj Fabeloj, if you're interested) which does exactly that and really works well. Yep, and put a small glossary at the back, or under the EO if there's space, just like most modern printings of Shakespeare's plays do.
I'd also reckon you could chop it a bit, say 20-40%, partly because if it's aimed at learners, a giant, fat fantasy novel is not going to entice. When one is starting out, smaller goals are good. Iom post iom, as we say. Editing it again means more work for you, but less for the translator!
ceigered (프로필 보기) 2011년 4월 18일 오전 5:04:01
I've got a bilingual spanish bible around here somewhere, I found it really cool because you can look at the Spanish, the look over to the adjacent column and look at the English, and try and figure out what the Spanish was on about grammatically and how they word things (much more straightforward I found actually, but probably that's coz I'm not spanish and can't appreciate the mess of hidden meanings that go with every word in any language)
Miland (프로필 보기) 2011년 4월 18일 오전 11:59:39
philodice:Straight Esperanto with unusual or uncommon words in a glossary at the end of each chapter where they appear the first time, with the full text appearing in English in a separate half of the book.If I were a beginner again, I think I would prefer this option.
qwertz (프로필 보기) 2011년 4월 20일 오전 9:10:30
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