Can you find books in foreign language in your house? by KEIO FUTURELEARN

fl_keio — 2017-02-20 09:06:57 UTC

I'm from Japan, this book written by English.

Books in Foreign Language

backstudio — 2017-08-21 02:48:31 UTC

I think these books are Korean, but I am not sure. I speak only English, French and Spanish. I bought the books in an op shop because they have beautiful drawn illustrations of nature, plants, and animals.

Japanese Literature (among many others)

2017-08-21 03:12:40 UTC

In the Philippines, we grew up reading foreign literature (mostly Western) and locally, we're hard-pressed to find translated Japanese literature in our bookstores (but it sells like hotcakes in independent, second-hand bookshops). My only Japanese-language book is 漱石の思ひ出 and it's a pity I don't know Japanese but I love Natsume Soseki so this kinda motivated me to learn Japanese. Pictured here is probably the third of my growing Japanese literature collection, sitting with the rest of my foreign-language books (in English, all of them) at home (I'm a book hoarder, which sounds a little negative but I try to read them).

Books in Foreign Language

ppiccolini — 2017-08-21 04:09:48 UTC

At home I have books in Spanish (my native language), Italian, English and French. I can read technical books in these four languages, but literary books only in Spanish and Italian.

At last I can use this app.

2017-08-21 05:04:51 UTC

I found an old book of astronomy in Chinese. Seems belong to my passed grandfather.

Here is the book I bought for myself.

2017-08-21 05:11:24 UTC

ienbischof — 2017-08-21 06:19:26 UTC

This book is in english and chinese. It belonged to the grandfather of my first husband, he left China in 1880. I saved it after he died. It has no backcover and has holes of bookwurms. It was published in 1934.

2017-08-21 06:49:55 UTC

Third book of the trilogy about Publio Cornelio Scipio "Africanus" I bought this book myself when visiting Cartagena (Spain) this summer. I am reading it in Spanish as the first two books of the trilogy. Great read if you enjoy history! I always read few pages with my morning coffee before going to ...

Korean Literature

2017-08-21 09:35:15 UTC

I'm an undergraduate doing a degree in Korean so I have a lot of books which are translated into Korean. I also have some original Korean books such as the 삼국유사 which is from the Three Kingdoms Period in Korea. I bought the book in the picture when I was in Korea because it is a good method for learning a foreign language.

2017-08-21 10:09:54 UTC

Due to the lack of space in my dorm room I had to leave behind most of my books in my hometown, so the following are all I could muster up spontaneously. Regarding the relationship with my own culture the most interesting of those is probably the Lovecraft one due to his profound impact on modern western pop culture and on a number of current horror/fantasy/sci-fi authors (e.g. Stephen King, George R.R. Martin,...)

My book...

2017-08-21 10:24:11 UTC

I'm Italian but I speak several languages so I have books in English, French, Spanish and Hindi. I even have a book in Japanese, which I don't speak, and it's the book I chose to show here! I bought it several years ago in France, when I happened to see the ilustrations of this book exhibited in a French city (Aix-en-Provence, if I remember correctly...). The book is ( I suppose) a children story, it contains lots of beautiful and unusual illustrations (lots of human-like animals) and some text...which unfortunately I can't read!
But I loved the images so much that I bought the book all the same

An Irish book

2017-08-21 10:32:30 UTC

This book was offered to me by a friend coming back from a trip to Ireland. It is a boomabout the history of the relationship between Irish and English people. This book is linked to my passion for history, Ireland and the English speaking world in general. English is part of my life as part of my family is American and that I teach part of my classes in English. Although, I love foreign languages and cultures and my house also hosts books in Germnan, Spanish and Italian.

FRENCH BOOKS

2017-08-21 11:28:43 UTC

I own books of French literature,; MA VIE AVEC MOZART by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, LE PETIT CHOSE by Alphonse Daudet and others and relevant to Japan TALES OF OLD JAPAN by A.B.Mitford (first Lord Redesdale) during his tenure as British Attache to Japan. first published in 1871. My copy was published by KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH TRUBNER & CO in the 1940's

A Bear Named Paddington (in Latin)

2017-08-21 11:51:17 UTC

The characters are the same as English - using the Latin alphabet, so there are fewer (or should be), however, this book does add the extra letters, using "z" and writing "u" (rather than "v"). Despite the English version being a "children's book", the Latin version is not suitable for children as the Latin is quite advanced and complex (from the first page), so it would need adapting for children. Initially bought it for a Latin class, but will have to adapt it and choose selected simple sentences

Foreign language books

penny15 — 2017-08-21 12:21:55 UTC

I have a few foreign language books, some French novels from when I studied French at school, a dual language copy of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigatins, from when I was studying for my doctorate (mainly because I'm not a language specialist, and find a translation useful for helping to decode the text). More recently I've got hold of a handful of dual language classical Chinese works, including this one of Lao Tsu's Dao De Jing

Zits

2017-08-21 12:47:36 UTC

It is written in English and an American comic strip above ut the life of a 16 year old boy.
The reason I have it is because one of my friends gave it to me. She was an English teacher living in Japan, not my teacher but friend. It was a gift when she returned to Japan from her country during her vacation.
She said that she liked the book and I would like it because I had a son like the main character and she also had a brother like him.
Now she lives in her country. This book reminds me of her fondly. It was hard for me as an English learner to read it but so much fun to find out similarities between American families and Japanese through reading it.

Most foreign language books I have in English translation. I have quite a few of these, the majority based on Greek or Roman culture. One I used to have, but have no longer is Homer's Odyssey in a parallel text.

2017-08-21 16:15:05 UTC

Characters: Odysseus, Telemachus & Penelope
Language: ancient Greek
The appeal of reading it may be to see both the similarities and differences between the ancient Greek world and our own. As for my culture, it was profoundly influenced by this book and the stories in it. It is certainly one of the fundamentals in the history of western literature.

2017-08-21 16:18:08 UTC

Chinese Korean War Magazine

2017-08-21 16:21:50 UTC

I live in Korea. I purchased these old Chinese publications on the Korean War, which are still relevant today.

2017-08-21 16:34:46 UTC

I like to be in shops for antiquarian books. When I studied in Hiroshima I bought this old book with woodcuts. It is in poor condition but I like its smell and feeling of time.

lichtundgrau — 2017-08-21 17:54:32 UTC

I live in Germany and at home I have several books in foreign languages: in Russian, Kazakh, French, English and another books in Japanese. I bought the most of them for myself or it were gifts. As far as the Kazakh books concerned, they originate from my first country, Kazakhstan. Only 100 years ago this people led a nomadic life, in the 1920s it has been forced to settle. Its culture was influenced by Islam and the Soviet empire. I think it is a pity that Kazakh have, to a great extent, lost their natural religion of several gods (Tengrism), that meant being at one with the natural environment.

日本字デザイン (Japanese Character Design)

nhogoboom — 2017-08-21 18:51:10 UTC

I am a linguist so I have a large number of books in languages other than my native English, many in Japanese or Chinese.. I found this interesting book on Japanese typography design, published in 1958, in a used bookstore in Seattle.

My two foreign-language books - one that I can muddle my way through (on a good day) and one that is the height of my literary aspiration.

matthewkill — 2017-08-21 18:53:43 UTC

Der Steppenwolf

dharmacara — 2017-08-21 19:58:15 UTC

Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf is a favourite book of mine in English so when I lived in Switzerland I decided to buy a copy in German to help me learn the language. Sad to say that my command of Hesse's native tongue has never been sufficiently good to get past more than a couple of pages, with considerable dictionary assistance!

Maigret: Le Chien jaune

2017-08-21 21:55:40 UTC

I took a French course online a few years back. While I was doing that, I saw this in a used book store. I tried reading it, but it was rough going. Somewhere in my house, I have a couple of French-language newspapers from a trip to Montreal. I also have a copy of "The Devotion of Suspect X," a Detective Galileo mystery that is translated into English from the original Japanese.

The New Testament Scripture in Greek, English, and Chinese

alwchan — 2017-08-21 22:25:22 UTC

Studying the original Biblical language with translations is helpful for the understanding of the texts in context.

As a retired sociolinguist specialising in Japanese, I have many books in Japanese, mainly about language issues in society (e.g., the effect of the Internet on written Japanese etc) along with a large number of Japanese novels and language history books. I also have a few books in French and Latin which I don't read very often but like to keep my hand in. Reading Harry Potter in Latin is fun.

2017-08-21 23:30:16 UTC

The Bible in Many Languages

branhow12 — 2017-08-22 02:20:57 UTC

The Bible is a very important part of my life. I have been a Christian for about half of my life and several years ago I attended a Bible college. I am currently studying Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) in Guangzhou China. But I have the Bible in these languages because I have been interested in learning how to share the Bible with people from these countries. There is a Traditional Chinese Bible, a Simplified Bible, a Korean, a Japanese Bible and of course an English Bible. I am looking forward to this class on Chinese-Japanese relations!

Te Kūmara (in Māori)

2017-08-22 05:03:20 UTC

The kūmara (sweet potato or satsuma-imo in Japanese) was a staple food of the pre-European Māori. The early sea-faring Polynesians brought the kūmara to Aotearoa New Zealand from South America.
The book's title translates as "The Kūmara: What a sweet food!". There are 24 stapled pages, written entirely in Māori on stiff paper, with a fold-out glossary on the back cover. It's intended as a reader for language learners and contains illustrated recipes for kūmara chips, soup, stew, bread, etc.
Te Reo Māori (the Māori language) has a rich oral tradition of legends, stories, songs and oratory. The language wasn't written down until Europeans came to New Zealand in the 19th century. Along with English and New Zealand Sign Language, Māori is an official language of New Zealand but is still not widely studied or spoken by non-Māori.I have about 30 Māori readers that I bought through an online trading site, and about 300 Japanese dictionaries and novels accumulated over many years.

I am a collector of old books. I can read Italian, French, Russian and English and I have accumulated many foreign language books across the years (sometimes just for the pleasure of admiring the bindings). However, these are two of my favourites. Both are in French and both were found in a flea market in Paris some years ago. They each date from the 19th century. The de Vigny is a component story belonging to the longer tale 'Servitude et grandeur militaires' (pub. 1835). The de la Brete is a small, moralising tale for young women. Both are miniature editions and rather lovely.

2017-08-22 05:13:14 UTC

I own a Chinese translation of the New Testament (新約全書) written in Mandarin, published in 1911. The translation was done by the British and Foreign Bible Society (which has as its goal to translate into different languages). The book is bound in half-cloth, with the title written in a red box in the upper right corner of the front cover. The corners of the book are rounded and the whole edge is coloured in red. The text inside of the book is written inside of boxes (as in many Chinese and Japanese books from the period), with summaries of the paragraphs written in the top pf the pages. The books was owned by the wife of a Swedish missionary in Chucheng (Southern China). She seems to have understood Mandarin, as there are small sheets of paper with corresponding Bible texts in Swedish as well as a couple of hand-written Chinese characters inside. I found this book on a fleemarket in Sweden, but I do not now how it came there.

2017-08-22 07:43:50 UTC

Books in Foreign Language

paulie_alquimia — 2017-08-22 08:40:46 UTC

These are some of my books in foreign language. Most of them are in english, as you can see it. To bring more details about them, one brings four ancient greek plays, another shows biological systems and the last is an american literature collection. Well, I have a bunch in portuguese language, my own tongue. And a gift: a japanese comic novel written in french but I couldn't find right now.

Many books in different languages...

2017-08-22 09:45:32 UTC

English, French, Chinese, Italian, German... different cultures, diferent points of view and the language opens up a new reality...the specific words and phrases... A beautiful door to other cultures and lives.

It is written in English and my uncle gave it to me.Although it was difficult for me to read it well, i try and try by using dictionary , finally i can understand it

2017-08-22 10:21:57 UTC

Fu Hua Chinese Painting

2017-08-22 10:54:46 UTC

I purchased this book 30 years ago in London shortly after Fu Hua had moved to the UK from China. I was interested in the Xieyi style of painting, buying a book of Wang Yani's work at the same time.

The Empire of Corpses

2017-08-22 11:51:25 UTC

An amazing novel I found in one of the second-hand stores in Japan. The language it's written in is pretty complicated but at the same time it makes reading the book so much more satisfying <3

Learn english with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

2017-08-22 12:01:52 UTC

JoJo is my favorite manga of all time, so when I heard that the author was making this in collaboration with Marty Friedman (one of my idols), I knew I had to get this book. I already know english and japanese pretty well, so I didn't really learn much from the book, but I'm sure other people can learn a lot from it!

Spanish Bible from my Great grandfather

2017-08-22 13:05:33 UTC

This Bible was owned by my Spanish great grandfather. The Philippines was a Spanish colony before so it's not a surprise for us to owned things from them. We have some more books in Spanish just waiting to be read. It's justhat we don't have much knowledge about Spanish.

Fioretti

2017-08-22 13:28:42 UTC

Book in French

2017-08-22 13:30:00 UTC

I bought this book when on a visit to Assisi. It was available in several languages but I could only understand the French. The original dates from the Middle Ages and was in Italian. It was a version of a popular book in Latin.

Banana Yoshimoto Novels in Italian

2017-08-22 15:09:04 UTC

The I bought these novels when I was studying in Rome and u was finding it hard to pick Italian authors because I didn't know them, so I went for an author I had read in English translation (English is my first language). These books are the first books in Italian that I read by myself for pleasure and with something like fluency. The stories have young female characters facing challenges in their ordinary lives and just looking at the covers reminds me of a very special and important time in my own life.

French Roman Catholic Breviary for the year 1830

2017-08-22 16:18:04 UTC

I received this Roman Catholic Breviary as a gift several years ago. Written in Latin, It contains the Divine Office/Liturgy of the Hours for a French Catholic priest in the diocese of Vienne for the year 1830. Printed in Lyons.

Two Books

wabei4 — 2017-08-22 19:06:56 UTC

I have a few Spanish and French books, half a dozen Ming novels, and loads of Taishou and Shouwa novels and short stories.

An example of the Ming novels is "Xiyouji," a fictionalized story of a journey to India to obtain Buddhist scriptures. It was first published in 1592; my copy was printed in Hong Kong in 1961 and I bought it in San Francisco a decade later when I was studying Japanese in college. I can still make out a sentence or two without a dictionary, but I never actually read the book.

In 1977 I bought a lot of bunkou versions of famous authors from second-hand shops in Ochanomizu, and I have made my way through some of those. An example is a book of Miyazawa Kenji's stories that all adult Japanese of that time had grown up with; my favorite is "Poraano no Hiroba," in which a minor bureaucrat pursues proletarian ideals. It was written in 1924; my copy was printed in 1976.

Neither Chinese nor Japanese is closely related to English. Both these stories are fantastic, but the cultures described are like mine on a very basic level: pride and greed are as common in the U.S. as in medieval China, and have bad results here as there. Miyazawa depicted very ordinary curiosity, consideration and desire for equality in his central European setting, and the hero's office was amazingly similar to places I have worked.

intheclouds77 — 2017-08-22 19:24:21 UTC

L'Abbė Constantin in French.
My great aunts read this book in 1902 as part of their studies. Printed in 1899

Chine

2017-08-22 19:48:47 UTC

My book is in French, but it is mostly a book of photographs taken in China in 1946. The text is by Paul Claudel and serves as an introduction and overview of the photos and their importance. The photos are mostly of everyday life in China at this time of great change, just before the establishment of the Communist state. I bought the book a couple of years ago from a charity-based thrift store where I volunteered in Beijing.

Dream of the Red Chamber

2017-08-22 20:49:11 UTC

The novel, in traditional Chinese, has been in my home for years. Although, my family is of Chinese heritage, I cannot read Chinese and have hoped to learn enough to read classic novels to have my own understanding and connection to the stories my mom had shared with me of Chinese art & literature. These novels were given to us by family members.

Japanese manga

2017-08-22 21:00:26 UTC

I am trying to learn Japanese so this is some of the Japanese language manga I have bought to help me.

2017-08-23 07:41:09 UTC

Few books in a F

2017-08-23 07:56:45 UTC

I have very few books in other languages. A few Spanish books which reflects my partners learning of the language and one or two items written in Pali. I am unable to read Pali but this reflects my own interest in Buddhism.

Frankenstein

2017-08-23 08:34:06 UTC

Yes, I have many books in foreign languages. I'am a foreign languages student which studied Spanish and French at High School and now studying Russian and English at University. The first book I found Is in English a copy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Found in an old book market in Naples.

Zoo, Yūjō, Penguin Highway

2017-08-23 10:12:21 UTC

I have a few books in other languages, mainly novels in English or in Japanese (I have some high school textbooks in Japanese as well). I bought these novels when I was studying in Japan (using a Tosho-card I received for my birthday): I had already heard of the respective authors in the past. The one I found most challenging to read back then was Zoo by Otsuichi, a horror-themed short story collection, although I remember having to use a dictionary to look up technical words back while reading Penguin Higway, a novel about a very smart elementary school student.

Der Medicus

2017-08-23 10:13:11 UTC

Most of my foreign language books are textbooks and dictionaries for language studies. But I have one novel in German titled Der Medicus. It was given to me as a gift from German friends while I was studying German in high school.

I never actually thought about the history of this book until prompted by this week's discussion question. It turns out that it's a fairly famous book in Europe, but it's originally English! It was written by American Noah Gordon and became so popular in Germany and Spain that sequels were published.

Hungarian, English and German

2017-08-23 11:12:21 UTC

I have quite a lot of English books in our home, as my mother tongue is Hungarian, it counts as a foreign language. I also have a couple of German books, Narnia for example as my German is not the best and since I know the story the children's book I thought would be easier to read. Also a few textbooks to learn English and German. Oh and a French dictionary, of which I took a beginners course once.

I don't believe there is any similarity in the languages. Culturally they are similar as the Hungarian books we have are often translations.

Reflecting my various interests these are some of my French and Afrikaans books. Growing up in apartheid South Africa it was compulsory to learn Afrikaans at school - even so I do not have too many books in that language. History, folklore, fairy tales and food feature strongly in my collection

2017-08-23 12:08:45 UTC

I have hundreds of foreign books:

2017-08-23 20:23:38 UTC

El Poema de Mio Cid tells the story of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar as he fights to regain his honour in 11th century Spain.

Literature in Foreign Languages

2017-08-24 14:59:06 UTC

Concerning works in foreign languages I have used them in conjunction with Japanese language learning texts. My personal favorites are Murakami's Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイ森) and also the collection of Ribon comics I have amassed. I find them very useful in learning about the language and culture of Japan.

I have mostly French books as this is my mothertongue, but also books in Dutch, ( second language in Belgium where i reside in summertime ), English, Latin ( the classics in in French and Latin ) and manga's in Japanese.

2017-08-24 17:54:47 UTC

Learning languages

2017-08-24 20:31:26 UTC

Unfortunately no members of my family (including myself) speak a foreign language, so the only foreign language books in my house are a Spanish dictionary and textbook from my GCSE a year ago (of which I remember none) and a couple of online Korean textbooks left over from my attempt to learn Korean (unfortunately the workload of A Levels meant I had to discontinue my attempt)

However, whilst it is an English book, I do own 'The Silk Roads' by Peter Frankopan which provides a fascinating insight into Eastern history and scathing comments about historians ignoring it in favour of Western history - I would recommend to anyone interested in, as the book's tagline states 'A new history of the world'

A History of the Swedish Parliament.

2017-08-25 04:50:56 UTC

Rumiko Takahashi

2017-08-25 13:51:32 UTC

Urussei Yatsura and Ranma 1/2 from ace mangaka Rumiko Takahashi

Japanese Fiction

2017-08-26 06:00:31 UTC

I have lots of Japanese fiction in my house. This is one example (Shio no Machi; City of Salt by Hiro Arikawa).

I also have art collections, comic books, and test prep books in Japanese.

I'm beginning to learn Korean, so I hope there will be Korean books in the house soon!

Everything Has Its Beginning

aibursey — 2017-08-26 06:57:36 UTC

When I started reading books in English in my junior high school days, it took me an awfully long time to finish. Yet reading in English was gradually becoming my joy. Years and years later, I encountered with this book (the front one). I really liked the spectacular story. The book behind it is a copy of a 15th century old book. Originally printed in China. People living in ancient Japan could read Chinese. Today, the book isn't intelligible to me.
Life is a full of mystery. Culture is also a full of wonders.

I have a bilingual atlas of Japan. The book has maps of the subway, trains and other features.

2017-08-26 18:50:44 UTC

I also have a Spanish/English dictionary and a workbook for writing Hirigana/Katakana.
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English, italian and german literature

2017-08-26 19:38:44 UTC

My mother language is spanish. I have a few books in english, here's a copy of Pride and Prejudice, which is one of my favorites of all time. I also have a book in italian, it's called Pedigree by George Simenon and I bought it on sale so I could practice my italian, though I confess I've never finished it because the story wasn't very interesting. The blue book it's a copy of Hölderlin's poetry because I studied german for a while but I never got proficient enough to understand it without a dictionary.

From Kyoto's bookshop

liuchenpku — 2017-08-27 05:12:36 UTC

I got these lovely books of chinese poetry from an old bookshop in Kyoto six years ago.

Om

2017-08-27 16:21:18 UTC

An Illustrated Handbook of Traditional Chinese Health Preservation

2017-08-27 17:21:05 UTC

A Chinese modern book printed in english language, in China (Foreign Language Press). In my Spanish country it's not easy to get some specialized texts in our own language, exception made of most important classical texts of East Asia. For all the rest, our best option is to check available literature in english, as it is this language which is prevailing for international exchange (in Europe at least)

Break frontiers

2017-08-27 20:41:21 UTC

When i was a kid i had japanese classmates and teachers, currently i am learning japanese, i bought the book on the left because i'm hoping to read it in the near future (on the side it says is for middle school students), in the middle is a french book "Papillion" and i bought it because i used to learn french during high school, i bought it on a trip to Québec.
The last one is "To kill a mockingbird", it was a present for my sister, the whole family reads it to practice english (spanish is our first language).

English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch ... and Japanese, of course

2017-08-28 00:24:15 UTC

During I prefer to read books in the original language they are created in, there are quite some books in my house which are not in my native language German. I am married to a Japanese who is also fluent in Spanish and Romanian, so that we have an international collection here. Both studied, and our study literature is often in the original language. There are foreign books of Art History, History, Language Studies, Linguistics, Dictionaries (English-Japanese for example), books about economics, maths and philosophy. Also religion and contemporary arts. Our children grow up multilingual, and their bookshelves are also pretty internationally equipped. Funny if they already recognize the difference in layout, topics and special vocabulary in their children books.
During culture is expressed by language and each language shows typical features of the culture it represents, there are of course differences in how the books are built, how the argumentation goes, how information is presented and even in how texts and schemes and graphics and photos are used to make it a whole story. Scientific books are often difficult in German and easiest if they come from the US, actually. Comics and graphic novels in French and German feature a lot more text than in English and Japanese.

THE TEACHING of BUDDHA

2017-08-28 01:04:57 UTC

I found it and have not explored it. Not sure how it got here. It is a English Japanese bilingual edition, 1966 by BUKKYO DENDO KYOKAI that states it had its 1113th revision in 2003.

Hmm. Must have gone through a few incarnations to get to Japanese and English.

Working Man

2017-08-28 01:05:01 UTC

I picked this up in Tokyo this past spring, when the author, Gen Hoshino, was very popular for his song, "Koi" and his newly released essays. It is a book of essays about what working is and why the author never wants to work. I have unfortunately not read all of it yet. I like its size and feel, especially because it came with a book cover that gives all of my Japanese books a similar look and feel even when they are of wildly different topics.

Only some comic books

2017-08-28 05:28:59 UTC

the only books I have in foreign languages are some comics I bought on my trip through Japan.

Nobel Prize Winner Oe Kenzaburo

2017-08-28 12:07:50 UTC

Among the books in foreign language that I have in my house, this one is the last one I bought: "A personal matter", written by Oe Kenzaburo. I work with Japanese Literature, so I am interested in anything related to it.

Programming books

2017-08-28 12:39:09 UTC

I'm a native Spanish speaker so every book in English is in foreign language. As I decided to learn Japanese I also have few books related to Japanese Language learning

ハリーポッターと賢者の石 (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) - the Japanese translation of a UK novel. I bought it in Japan and use it for studying Japanese (helped by the fact I know the story from having read the English version).

2017-08-28 13:21:19 UTC

Well.....almost all of them actually.

2017-08-28 20:09:20 UTC

Since I'm a librarian of Japanese and Korean studies living in the Netherlands, the vast majority of my book collection is either in English (not my native language), Japanese or Korean - one or two in Chinese, some German.

The Japanese ones are mainly on Tokugawa history and the Shimabara rebellion.

Important treasure

2017-08-29 09:54:37 UTC

small picture book gifted a long time ago (Mamehon).
The size is about 8 x 6 cm.
The cover is made of fur. The text is written in English.
Because it is a special equipment version, I carefully store it.

Light and Vision

2017-08-29 22:20:24 UTC

Hey!

Well, I’m Mexican, so… my book is in English. It’s a big book with a hard cover. On the cover is a human blue eye. The book contents information about the light and vision, who light does work in our eyes for give us a picture, also how we get a different dimensions of vision. I bought this book about 4 years ago, because I was studying Visual Arts at University and I would to know how images does work in our eyes and brain, also because I like physics. And I think that maybe it have some relationship with language, in some words, but doesn’t have any relation with my culture, I guess.

German, japanese, english

2017-08-30 03:46:26 UTC

Most are in portuguese because that's my language, but I do have some foreign books.
Ansichten eines Clowns Roman by Heinrich Böll is in german. I have german ancestry and understand a little of it. Always wanted to learn more so when I saw this book very cheap in a book fair I bought it to have something to practice on...

I have some mangas in japanese that I bought in an asian neighbourhood to practice, because I study it since my teenage anime loving years. Also have a child's book with a yellow cover that father bought me when he learned I was studing japanese.

And the the Song of Ice and Fire books in english, because the translation was really poor for this series in Brazil.

A little Babylon

2017-08-30 10:58:53 UTC

Hello! I'm Italian and.. I'm really lucky, as I have lots of books in different languages: English, French, Spanish, Greek, Latin, Danish, Arabic, Amharic and Italian, of course. I cannot read all these languages (for the moment! My mom is Arabic/Amharic mother-tongue), but I hope one day I will. Thank you!

Job-related shelf

2017-08-30 16:51:30 UTC

The picture below only shows the small shelf of English books that I regularly use for work. Yes, there are mangas among them because I firmly believe that the medium is perfect to convey a message in a non-native language whilst encouraging less proficient learners to read.
Apart from these books, I do have some in Latin, French, German, Italian as well as some real English classics (from my own school days - I'm Swiss). The only "books" that feature Japanese are CD booklets from Japanese musicians whom I respect as much as many of my favourite authors.

Confucianism in modern Japan

brisquez — 2017-08-30 20:37:55 UTC

I found this book home, in Caracas. Opening the book you find a handwritten dedication, to my grandfather, who apparently helped the author with its publication. I am still reading the book.
This author was born in 1924 in S.F. California and also worked as an economic analyst in Venezuela during the mid 50's. He wrote other books related to Oriental studies, well suited for the course.
/ Confucianism In Modern Japan - A Study of Conservatism in Japanese Intellectual History - Warren W. Smith, Jr. 1959. The Hokuseido Press. Tokyo

Books in foreign language

gwbelen — 2017-08-31 18:29:40 UTC

Hello. I'm from Argentina and in my house I have several books in English. And I download a lot of books to my kindle too. For instance, I bought "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke. The story is set in 19th century England and the main characters are two gentlemen who are the only magicians with magical powers. This fantasy novel gives a satirical portrayal of all the characters which reminds me a lot of Jane Austen's sense of humour and wit. I own the book because it was recommended to me by a friend.
English and Spanish: I think that they share aspects in common that they don't share with other languages like Japanese. For example, we use the same letters and we have similar syntaxes. Whereas when it comes to Japanese I can't read Kanji, Katakana and Hiragana and the syntaxes are more dissimilar to my mother tongue.
England and Argentina are very different cultures, but we have in common that we are western civilizations.

Japanese Death Poems

2017-08-31 21:49:36 UTC

I thought this might be one of the more interesting examples of foreign language books in my house. Mostly, the books I have with Japanese in them also have English, and were slowly amassed as part of my attempt to learn Japanese (mostly textbooks!), and this is the only one really for reading for 'pleasure'. The Japanese is 90% romaji - I would have liked hiragana at least but I suppose that limits the audience. It is a nice novelty to be able to 'read' the sounds of the Japanese poems even if none of the language is known. This makes it one of my favourite forms of translation - so much of the music can be lost otherwise, even if meaning is gained.

The Setting Sun, Dazai Osamu

2017-09-01 21:58:07 UTC

I don't own a physical copy of this book, but I do have an online version of this in the original Japanese script, I believe romaji. I bought this after reading the book in English, and have bought the original copy so that when I can finally understand Japanese, I have the pleasure to understand it in the original text without translation error, or "best translation". I hope one day to collect all his works in traditional Japanese, but for now, a Japanese electronic copy is the only one I have.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

2017-09-02 19:05:19 UTC

I'm always trying to improve my English so I have many books in English. But this one is special. Stories from Edgar Allan Poe. My friends gave me it, actually she stole it from old library for me, because she knew that he is my favorite writer and I like read English books.

魔女の宅急便

2017-09-04 11:13:32 UTC

Most of my books are in storage at the moment so this is a Japanese copy of 魔女の宅急便/Witch's Home Delivery (also known as Kiki's Delivery Service) which belongs to my partner. The novel is aimed at children, and follows the adventures of a teenage witch and her cat. There are many books in English about witches which are aimed at children too, such as The Worst Witch series.

A GUIDE TO LEARNING HIRAGANA&KATAKANA

2017-09-04 23:11:47 UTC

I have just found it from my bookcase .
I have many books of english language learning by selfstudy since I studied english language at the university of foreign languages.
I have collected a few poems' books ofJapanese that were translated by the famous our native poet of modern era of Burmese Literature .

Philosophical Schools of Buddhism

2017-09-05 11:10:07 UTC

Some years ago I started to study the 4 philosophical schools of Buddhism. The book I chose is from the Tibetan Master Chankya Roelpe Dorje and it is written in Tibetan language. It is a presentation of the individual views of the 4 schools. They are studied in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and can serve as a basis for formal debate. Buddhism started in India and came through different ways to other countries, like Tibet, China or Japan. Although India is the source of the teaching, its character has changed through the influences of the country it took roots in. I think this process takes also place when translating a book from one to another language.

Boxes of it

2017-09-05 14:11:08 UTC

If I can get these to drag on the first scan is a picture book from the Lucky Dragon No.5 Museum. The others are books I got secondhand in London. In London you can borrow or get so much Japanese stuff for free I made my website course page: jamestutor.wixsite.com/japanesepages Although I have some stuff in a few languages most of my foreign language material is related to specific visits, I would try and buy books on a theme related to the place visited, and art galleries. In London there has been so many opportunities to pick a wide range of materials . The most impressive of these is Admiral Togo’s military biography from his shrine in west central Tokyo.

I have materials from historical to Ghibli storybooks, and a lot of art materials. I have bought little of this in Japan, but mostly 2ndhand in London. Even all my textbooks I gave away to the International centre when I studied in Japan, but they have all found much less easy replacements I need to work on!

2017-09-06 18:27:04 UTC

The book Schmetterling, is a work written by a group of German entomologists, Josef Settee, Rolan Steiner, Rolf Reinhardt, ReinartFeldman, and Gabriel Hermann. These researchers, with their work on the world's butterflies, designed a practical manual to easily identify them.I have this book because I bought it in Dresden, Germany. Because the topic about butterflies interests me.

2017-09-07 02:35:16 UTC

"Mother Teresa in my own words 1910-1997". The work Mother Teresa has become the yardstick by which the whole world measures compassion, generosity and selflessness . Her words and actions have inspired millions of people from around the world to help the poor and needy, a legacy that is her gift to all mankind for generations to come. Her work, stories and prayers have helped strengthen and inspire the poor, the dying and the suffering and those who read them. I have got this book from a book fair and indeed it has inspired me a lot.

2017-09-08 06:13:02 UTC

Dictionary of Japanese Kanji

2017-09-09 09:34:38 UTC

I don't have access to all my books at the moment, but most of the books I have are written in English or Japanese. This is a dictionary of Chinese characters that exist only in Japan.

2017-09-13 15:26:22 UTC

I have this book, Confucius (Kong Zhi) I think this Chinese for his name. The Analects. The introduction is all in Chinese, the book is in 20 sections, again in Chinese on one page and a translation on the next. I have a English translation of The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho. I don't know how I came to have The Analects, I have had it for some time. I have an interest in the Far East, Japan and China, but have not tried anything like this before.

Most of my foreign books are written in English. My native language is Greek, but I can speak English, French and Italian, so I have many dictionaries. I also have Japanese and Korean dictionaries. I have to say that even though many of my books are written in english, the authors of the books are mostly japanese, like Haruki Murakami and Yasunari Kawabata. Here is one of my favorite books of Murakami's: 'After Dark'. That way I am able to combine two of my greatest loves: literature and japanese culture.

faykossifaki — 2017-09-17 00:24:58 UTC

P.S I bought it from a casual bookstore in Athens

Japanese Language dictionary

sssushmepratiksha — 2017-09-19 16:40:12 UTC

Got this from a friend when I visited Japan during a business trip. Have been passionate to know about Japan's culture since my stay there.

One of my Favorite Chinese books

2017-09-21 18:47:10 UTC

I have this Chinese book, called "If Stars Bloomed Upon the Tree"- 《如果星星开满树》”which my family posted to me on my Birthday. It has a beautiful story about the joy the friendship the sadness of teenage years. The characters' varying personalities are sculpted with intricacy that it is hard to believe they are all fictional. I believed it was the author's careful weaving of delicate details into each part of the book, placing the dialogues between the characters at the most appropriate points that made them seemed to be so alive. But what convinced my heart to fall deeply in love with the book was how it resonated with my childhood in China and the beauty of the language where the most magical scenes were laid out effortlessly in front of my eyes.
I loved it so much that I did not only read it multiple times but was also inspired to write a short story- or rather a fan-fiction of the book.

Jimbocho old book shops

2017-09-22 07:18:04 UTC

When I visit Tokyo, I love to browse the secondhand bookstores in Jimbocho and even if I can't read them I love to buy the cheap ones jumbled up in front of the store. One day I found this elementary school textbook with "Billy Yamamoto" written in English on the cover. Through a lot of research I discovered it belonged to a student at the American School in Japan, who was passionate about flying and in 1936 he represented Japan in the Berlin Olympics in an exhibition flying event. Sadly, shortly after the event, he crashed his plane on landing in Denmark and died. What other stories can be found in old books?

Bob, the janitor.

2017-09-25 10:57:31 UTC

Is a novel, originally in English, translated to Korean, so the title is not exactly that one in English.

I haven't read it yet because I'm still learning Korean, so I keep it for now only as a gift and later I hope I'll be able to read it.

Korean Hanji Paper

2017-09-25 13:02:56 UTC

I have a lot of foreign language books in my house. For this purpose, I chose a book on Korean Hanji Paper production, given by a colleague in paper conservation. Is written in modern Korean and is dated few years ago.

Aristotle's Politics

2017-09-27 13:18:18 UTC

I bought this book in my attempt to teach myself Ancient Greek. It initially presented a bit of a challenge, but eventually I got used to the style, and I managed to produce a fairly competent translation, I have a few other books in foreign languages, mainly Ancient Greek but some Latin as well.

Haikyuu Light Novel Vol.1

2017-10-05 20:57:11 UTC

A light novel from Japan that my friend gave to me because I'm learning Japanese. I haven't gotten around to reading it just yet.

All of my books

2017-10-19 19:50:39 UTC

I am Italian and I have all my books in their original English version. Some were never translated in Italian, some were translated badly, some are just easier to find to buy online.

Maison Ikkoku

2017-10-20 11:58:18 UTC

My native language is English but I started to develop an interest in Japanese in High School. Ranma 1/2 and Takahashi Rumiko's works were popular in translation from when I was in High School, so it was a bit nostalgic to pick one of them up again in its original Japanese.

I was rather surprised that, as far as novels or non-fiction go, this was the only first thing to pop out on the shelf. The dictionaries, guidebooks, and language textbooks are there, but they can't claim the same sort of attachment as to my junior college days, working part time and going to class at nights. I suppose that similarity, minus the boarding house hijinks and some of the more outlandish escapades of Godai Yusuke, of the first volume and trying to get into my university makes this more relevant in an odd way.

The type is a bit blurred at the edges in the smaller points but still mostly legible now.

2020-01-26 12:06:07 UTC

Custom of Macau - Inked Memories - Chan Wai Fai
Front cover of book given to me by my daughter in law who is from Macau. She and my son live in Macau. It has beautiful illustrations. The language is Cantonese. Portugese is also spoken in Macau

2020-01-26 12:06:32 UTC

Custom of Macau - Inked Memories. - Chan Wai Fai
Inside page of a beautiful book in Cantonese and English, given to me by my Cantonese daughter in law. See next photograph for book cover in box. Also have foreign language dictionaries.