![]() ![]() It is the feeling of anticipating a pending trip or anything one can dream of. The German language has captured that exciting jittery feeling of anticipating something wonderful that is to come with the word "Vorfreude," which in English means joyful anticipation. In German, the summer holiday is referred to as "Sauregurkenzeit," which in English means pickle time and refers to the time of year when people set aside time to rest and just marinate in the sun! These are the travelers that pack early, check to make sure they have their travel documents multiple times and get to the airport to check in hours before they actually need to. But, what it refers to is those individuals who get into a state of anxiety before traveling. Reisefieber, Travel FeverĮveryone knows someone who has "Reisefieber," which translated into English means travel fever. ![]() The German word "Sehnsucht" can be translated into English in many ways, such as to have yearning or craving, but the word as a concept and its roots can refer to a lingering illness of heart-wrenching pining for something indefinite or yet unknown. It is that immense longing to be somewhere else, far from where you are now. If you have recommendations or requests for future lists of books in translation, or if you want me to know about a book I missed, please let me know on Twitter.While in German, there is a word "Heimweh," which means homesickness, there is also a word that means the opposite, "Fernweh." In English, the concept can be described as having "farsickness," i.e., a yearning to be in a far-off place, whether you have been there before or not. Want more books in translation content? I have lists for you of books in translation from Catalonia, Argentina, France, Mexico, Central Africa, Japan, Southeastern Europe, Brazil, China, and Western Africa. Velasco completely nailed the pain and joy of being best friends as a teenage girl, and the immaturity, impulsiveness, and irrationality of being a teen.Ĭontent warnings for alcoholism / substance abuse, animal cruelty, xenophobia, depression, deportation, ableism, violence, misogyny. But their summer is disrupted by the chasm between Muslim and non-Muslim worlds, by prejudice and Islamophobia, by misogyny and a violent act that rocks their neighborhood. They wander the city, experimenting with sex and sipping their alcoholic concoction “tiger milk,” lounging by the pool and dealing with friend drama. I found so many wondrous-looking books on my search that aren’t being translated yet - I want debut novel Ministry of Dreams by nonbinary Iranian journalist Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, and Ada’s Raum by Sharon Dodua Otoo, and At Night All Is Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar, and Rose Stem by Angela Stiedele, in my hands and ready to be read.īold, impulsive German girl Nini and whip-smart Iraqi immigrant Jameelah are best friends in high school, filled to the brim with the recklessness of too much independence and the certainty that their youth gives them an unshakeable immortality. Still, we need more of them, particularly from modern-day women writers and authors of color. So, this is not one of the lists that I really had to struggle to find books for - we’re lucky to have a wealth of books translated from German into English. But German-speaking countries are also ranked fifth in publication of new books, so that one tenth of all books, including ebooks, in the world are being published in German. That on its own wouldn’t necessarily guarantee a high rate of translation. and the EU, and the third most widely used language on websites. It is the third most widely taught foreign language in the U.S. ![]() These speakers range from the people of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria (it is the most widely spoken “mother tongue” in the EU) to those impacted by German colonialism and refugees and immigrants arriving in these countries. 95 million people are native speakers of German - and 85 million speak it as a second language.
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