Do you read books in other languages?

I read some books in Spanish, but I can really only manage teen fiction, and even then it's quite slow going with a dictionary beside me :)

by Rachael Koch

Not usually. I find that translated books tend not to run as smoothly. I do own a copy of the Hunchback of Notre Dame in French that I won for a French poetry reading competition in grade 11. My French is not good enough to read it though!

by lizzi

I can only read English, but I have read a lot of translations of classic books, such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I haven't read any contemporary translations though.

by Bryony Harrison

I have several books in Croatian which I read to my son.

by Vee

I watch non-dubbed anime which is superior to reading.

by raugh

Translations only. It's one of my dreams to be competent enough at another language to read books in it. I can't imagine what Haruki Murakami must be like in the original Japanese.

by Ben

I've read comic books in German. I've tried reading them in French too but I can't do that without a dictionary in my hand. I do it for practice but I can't really just sit down and enjoy the book for the sake of reading it because it's more effort since I don't know the language well enough.

by Jennifer Muirhead

Your article on book, 'Of Mice & Men', didn't get 'proof read'. So many spelling & grammar mistakes. Oops!

by donjo

Thanks for letting me know, but why inform me here in a completely off topic question?

Had no where else to 'reply to'!

Read poems of Raina Maria Rilke, in German, also speak it.
Can read some Spanish, but not a whole book, ditto French, but can speak & understand it a bit, as only had one year of it at school.

My German is still 'good' enough that I don't need to read sub-titles of a German TV show! I like that!

Spent one month with Austrian couple who couldn't speak a word if English. My four years' worth of study, & 'B' Grade XII result, enabled me to converse with them pretty well!
Their many friends' I met whilst there, travelling by train to various other cities', tried out their Englsh on me, & I enjoyed helping them!

Win, win all around, I think!

by donjo