MuggleNet Academia Lesson 3 podcast is released - 'Parseltongue, Gobbledegook, and Troll: Translating Harry Potter'

The latest episode of MuggleNet Academia is now released for your listening and learning pleasure. Lesson 3: Parseltongue, Gobbledegook, and Troll - Translating Harry Potter deals with the difficulty of translating the stories of Harry Potter into a foreign language and maintaining either the literal meaning or staying true to the aliterations found throughout the series.

Join John Granger and I as we host this sensational new podcast. This week we are joined by Josee Leblanc, who is a Professional Translator for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and a long time Harry Potter fan. Our student guest for this week is Amanda Pavani, a Translation and Sociolinguistics Major from the UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais) in Brazil.

Lesson 3:

• How the translator decides what word to translate and what words not to
• Josee and Amanda read from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in French and Portuguese
• Is some of the story or wordplay lost in translation?
• and much more!

To learn about the translations of the Harry Potter series, you can download the lesson right here, or head on over to iTunes to listen.

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