Have You Read Twilight in a Language Other than English
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My sister brought up an interesting question, ‘Has some ATK readers read Twilight in two languages? If yes, which language?’
The follow up questions that crossed my mind were:
Do you have copies of The Twilight Saga in both languages, like, for example, you have eight books, four in Spanish and four in English?
Do you have a preference for a particular language when reading The Twilight Saga?
Can you please copy from your book or translate these famous Edward Cullen lines from the meadow scene in Twilight from English to another language or dialect? Just for fun.
“I’m the world’s best predator, aren’t I? Everything about me invites you in — my voice, my face, even my smell.”
Thank you very much everybody! 
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July 11th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
– it’s on hungarian.
– it’s on russian.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
hey I’m from Lithuania. And I have read Twilight in two languages
english and lithuanian 
so those lines “I’m the world’s best predator, aren’t I? Everything about me invites you in — my voice, my face, even my smell.” in lithuanian would sound like that:
July 11th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Hi, I’m italian. I read the entire saga in italian, of course. But I bought Twilight and New Moon also in english and I read Twilight. I’ll read Moon soon.
I prefer the english books, because they are the original version and mostly translation is not exactly the same (however the italian translation of Twilight is very close to the original).
In italian, the meadow lines are
Bye
July 11th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Had read Twilight written in the Chinese Language in addition to English
July 11th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
hey i from in estonia:)
it is estonian
July 11th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
hey:) im not french lol but the meadow lines in french are…
July 11th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Its in Indonesia Language
July 11th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
These are just fantastic! I’m checking out the world map as well to make sure my memory is not faulty regarding your locations. Just wonderful! I’m feeling giddy! More please! Thank you!
July 11th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
We speak a little Spanish but I only have it in the original language, I’ve only read it in English. I love all these posts though in different languages! So cool! In Spanish, the title is Crespusculo (don’t know how to put the accent on the u). I can translate the text but maybe someone has the book in Spanish and can post it.
July 11th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Okay Im from Sweden and that particular sentence that Edward says would be this in Swedish :
Now remember that this is direct translation. So if another Swedish person reads this, my apologies if it isnt that great of translation
July 11th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
i am a filipina, but in german it say like this.
it really good in english…you got the real feeling in the book
July 11th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Hi, I’m back… i have a correction to do about my translation (comment n. 3).
Letterally the first sentence is:
“Sono il migliore predatore del mondo” not “Sono il predatore più pericoloso”.
July 11th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
i can only speak english and so have only read it in that language, wish i could be multilingual so i could experience the saga in another language. which language do you guys think was the best to read them in?
x
July 11th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Oops….missed to mention that I am from Singapore and I love both the English and Chinese versions of the Twilight story
July 11th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Its written in Bangla. [Bangladesh]
July 11th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Hahaha, nice post! Here we go with the brazilian portuguese translation…
“Sou o maior predadoro meu rosto, até o meu cheiro.”July 11th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
it cut the bits
so here we go again with the right [Brazilian] Portuguese translation:
July 11th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Czech Republic
July 11th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
DUTCH. hehe.
some lines from New Moon in Dutch;
That’s the part where he makes Bella to promise him she won’t do anything stupid or reckless and he says that it will be as if he never was there.
July 11th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
woot I also found the dutch lines for “I’m the world’s best predator, aren’t I? Everything about me invites you in — my voice, my face, even my smell.” Okay here we go.
July 12th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Hi, I´m from Paraguay, South America, and here the lines in spanish :
July 12th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Hi, I am from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the lines on Bosnian
July 12th, 2009 at 2:15 am
Great idea! This is a quote directly from the Romanian version:
July 12th, 2009 at 2:42 am
i’m from Serbia, hi! it should be on cyrillic, but i don’t have it on my computer…:(
July 12th, 2009 at 3:27 am
i am turkish and
in turkish meadow line
July 12th, 2009 at 3:39 am
Hello, that’s what Edward said in german:
July 12th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Thanks!
July 12th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Julie, you are from Hungary too?
I have read Twilight in hungarian and in English, but Julie copied here those sentences, so I don’t need to write it.
But I have watched the film in english and in italian.:-)
July 12th, 2009 at 5:21 am
@elisa i’m from belgium and i read it in dutch and the lines are a bit different in belgium (“I’m the world’s best predator, aren’t I? Everything about me invites you in — my voice, my face, even my smell.”)
July 12th, 2009 at 7:38 am
In portuguese (I’m from Brazil):
July 12th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
This is interesting! it’s great how twilight connect people from different places! I am from Costa Rica (middle of America) and I have them in Spanish…but I prefer the quotes in english. I hope to have english books soon
Vilmarith from Paraguay already post it
July 12th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I’ve read it in English and in my language – I’m Croatian.
“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget.” = “Nisam se smjela sjećati, nisam se usuđivala zaboraviti. ”
I love to read but somehow I always end up reading books in English instead in my language. I love English, I think it’s more passionate language that mine.
July 12th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
– in estonian
but I like english version better
, ’cause estonian book is translated a little bit different 
, english book makes me just happy (a)
July 12th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
hi i’m french
i know someone already translated it but it’s not exactely this
July 12th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Girls, did you notice that most of us, like english version more the native one? I mean, I can really feel the connection with the characters more deeper in english than in romanian. I feel in romanian… it is not that real. Do you feel the same?
July 12th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
I`m from Germany. I have bought the all four books in german and englisch. The englisch version is better! But thats what it says in germen:
“Bin ich nicht das perfekte Raubtier. Alles an mir wirkt einladend auf dich – meine Stimme, mein Gesicht, selbst mein Geruch.”
Nicole
July 12th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
OMG! i love reading all of those comments from all over! even if I clearly do not understand them LOL. But knowing that they come from the same book, the same story, it all sound *reads* so romantic guys. Like Lorna, I’m from the Philippines, and we have yet to see the day the Twilight Saga will be translated in our native language (Filipino/ Tagalog) and that may never come… but personally I prefer to read it in it’s original text as written by Meyer, in English. So I don’t really mind if we don’t have it in our local language, but won’t that be real cool.
A call to ATK reader Mayhemonte-you gotta add your bit to all these exotic translations bud!
July 13th, 2009 at 1:34 am
i have read it spanish and ew! they have change some line and doesn’t transmit the same emotion…..I didn’t like it!
July 13th, 2009 at 2:32 am
Yes, that was the same feeling. I like my mother language, it means me everything, but I prefer the English, the original version. The hungarian translation was good, but I more like the English.
But, when I watched the film… I watched it in English and in italian, and I thought I watched it in hungarian. After 10 minutes watching I changed back the language to english… the hungarian voice was terrible…
July 13th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
This post bewitched me! This is my third comment!
)
As Vico1 said, I prefer the original language for the movie too… I can’t watch it in italian: their voices sound fake to me… probably because I’ve seen a lot of interviews and I know it very well. And Rob Pattinson’s voice and accent are so cute…:))
Bye
July 13th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
The replies to this post are bewitching, Francesca!
Translating is really an art form, and, personally, I would probably find the task terrifying if I had to do it for a whole book! Thank you very much everybody for sharing your time and talent in translating the words to another language! Some of you are so talented with languages that you can understand, speak and/or write two or more! Bravo!
July 14th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Have read it in Estonian.:)
July 14th, 2009 at 12:32 am
In Estonian:
July 14th, 2009 at 10:33 am
ive read in spanish here in Puerto Rico they only seld them in spanish at first but i got them in english by internet before they got here in english …
like i said i read in spanish but i didnt like it that much cause i was losing the voices i couldnt imagine rob or kristen talking spanish hahaha …
July 14th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
In Thai:
July 14th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
The same as Lola. I’ve read them both. But i like english better. This is the translation.
Those are 2 more extra lines.
“As if you need any of that. As if you can outrun me.”
P.S I don’t know if I spelled those correctly. I’m from Puerto Rico, I did what i could!
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
bukankah aku adalah pemangsa yang terbaik di dunia ? Segala-gala tentang ku, mengundang dirimu ke dalam hidupku..suaraku, rupa wajah ku, malah ..bau ku…
bahasa melayu from malaysia
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:16 am
Hi im German. I dont have it in Tcech but i read it too.
I have the Books in German and English.
I like both. But the movie is in english much better:
So here really in German
Ich bin das weltbeste Raubtier, oder nicht?
Alles an mir wirkt einladend auf dich, meine Stimme, mein Gesicht. Sogar mein Geruch!
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:11 am
Yes in Spanish, still as exciting!!