What’s a good spanish version of Don Quixote? I am pretty far along learning Spanish and want to try it. Something with an index for archaic language and references preferred. Thanks.
What’s a good spanish version of Don Quixote? I am pretty far along learning Spanish and want to try it...
Angel Bailey
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Dominic Turner
If you're actually that good at understanding Spanish, you should just read the version available at cervantesvirtual.com, download an offline copy of the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, and look unknown terms up as you go along.
Otherwise, read the based Peter Motteux translation.
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Samuel Morales
As a Latino I wouldn't recommend starting with Don Quixote. The novel is complex with an amazing use of language. People who study English don't start with Shakespeare, they start with Wilde, Hemingway, etc.
Asher Moore
This is the one to get (published by Alfaguara). It's hardcover, it has a ribbon marker, helpful notes for the archaic terms/words on virtually every page, some extras like essays, etc. It's edited by the Royal Spanish Academy so you know it's THE version..
Caleb Carter
and btw it's faily cheap for what it is (around 10 USD for a 1300+ page book!).
Aaron Diaz
Whaver you do, dont use the Spanish pronunciation, or academics will laugh at you. Don Quicks Oat is how professors in the United Kingdom pronounce it. A kid tried to correct Dr. Suffolks in class and he said, to have him pronounce all the towns and names in the books. He got it rong, big time. Moral of the story is if you can't pronounce anything else in Spanish without thinking about it, dont try to fool everyone by getting the title correct. Don Quicks Oat is fine and isn't going to ruffle any feathers. Pretending you know it. That is what pseuds do
Jack Cooper
Can confirm, the ribbon marker is nice.
Carter Sanchez
This user is correct. The book supposedly shaped the way the Spanish language is spoken today.
Cooper Jackson
You can pretty much know how any word is pronounced in Spanish once you now the basic rules. Can't say the same for English. If you can't even say "Kee-hoh-teh" you're a fucking douchebag and you shouldn't be in academia.
Eli Bailey
>The novel is complex with an amazing use of language. People who study English don't start with Shakespeare, they start with Wilde, Hemingway, etc.
OP says he's pretty far along with his Spanish studies. I'mma bet you he's already gotten through with Cien Años de Soledad, Pedro Páramo, Rayuela, etc. if he's not just some dumb duolingo user or college student on a third semester Spanish class.
>wasting money on expensive editions of public domain texts
Are you a resentful EOP?
Caleb Powell
>10 bucks
>expensive
imagine being a poorfag
Jason Davis
>Don Quicks Oat
I fucking hate angl*s
Caleb Jenkins
What do you recommend I read as somebody who isn't entirely fluent in Spanish? I have been reading Jose Marti poems with only a little difficulty. I'm thinking of reading Marti's essays. Also thinking of reading poems/essays/short stories from Borges and Neruda. Any other suggestions?
Sebastian Allen
The only way to become fluent in any language is to spend 10k hours (or 2 years for 14 hours a day) consuming comprehensible content, so just read and listen to LOTS of stuff. Nothing's gonna get you on its own to the level where everything is easy to understand, so pick up literally anything you're interested in. If necessary, re-read sentences up to 5 times to try to make sense of them, but please don't fall for the mentally-translating-Spanish-as-English trick, because that will only hinder you from understanding a language through itself.
Christian Price
>What’s a good spanish version of Don Quixote?
the only one that exists, unless I'm missing something and people are taking rewriting it in local slang as a hobby
Isaiah Martin
lmao even Americans know how to say "donkey ho-tay."
Henry Russell
My level is pretty high. I can read Bolano, Rulfo, Cortazar. Of course with a dictionary for some of the words. I'm looking for a recommendation the equivalent of Shakespeare plays in English with annotations and essays.
Ryan Cruz
OP here. I'll add Bolano's novels and poetry and Lorca's poetry as well. Work at it. Just takes time.
Joshua Jackson
OP here again. I have actually read those books exactly lol. Good guess.
Robert Edwards
Kind of a tangent to this thread, but what did you do to learn spanish, OP? I want to learn. If anyone has anything to help with. I already speak a Romance language.
Hunter Price
not sure if bait
Matthew Davis
>I already speak a Romance language.
Which one? Italian and Spanish are said to be closely related.
Jonathan Sanchez
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This is the version I used when I read it for my capstone class OP if you're looking for a paperback. Has footnotes for all the archaic language.
Lotta idiots in this thread, if you've read Bolaño OP, you can read Don Quixote easy. It's just long. Longer than 2666 at least in spirit (not sure what Bolaño you've read in Spanish).
But Portuguese and Spanish are closer
Gabriel Young
idiot, portuguese and spanish are the same language
Aaron Roberts
Made me kek
Nicholas Lewis
>_
Jaxson Moore
tu n(ã)o sabes nada
Jaxon Jones
i'm right tho, the difference is 90% phonetic. if portuguese and spanish are different languages then irish english and american english are different languages (you can't prove me wrong)
Cameron Reed
Romanian
Brandon Wood
bro what are you talking about tips for learning Spanish, Romanians speak like 9 different languages all of them--you should have no trouble learning spiccish
not sure if you know those languages then
Andrew Adams
onions español tío, no son muy diferentes los dos idiomas. não falo perfeitamente o português mais entendo muito e sei que o português e o espanhol se diferenciam mais foneticamente que substancialmente
Blake Edwards
>onions
why this happen to me :( Yea Forums so inconsiderate of spanish speakers
Austin Rivera
btfo proven you can't speak the language
Angel Miller
you got me lmao