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D&D books in languages other than English: any advice on where to find them, without traveling abroad? In particular, I'm looking for a German version of the 4th Edition Player's Handbook.
(I'm studying German, and I need more reading material to practice with, so I figured I'd look for a German copy of the book I find myself reading perhaps the most. It worked for Emil Krebs, except he used the New Testament.)
D&D books in languages other than English: any advice on where to find them, without traveling abroad? In particular, I'm looking for a German version of the 4th Edition Player's Handbook.
(I'm studying German, and I need more reading material to practice with, so I figured I'd look for a German copy of the book I find myself reading perhaps the most. It worked for Emil Krebs, except he used the New Testament.)
Thanks in advance!
Hallo doctorhook,
na da kann ich dir glaube ich ja helfen.
Hi doctorhook,
i think i can help you getting some german books.
As Aloïsius mentioned amazon.de is shipping overseas for 14€ and it takes 9-14 days until you get the package. So better grab more then one book. But beware - they are not cheap. The PHB is at 34,95€. For 47€ you get all 3 core books in english here in germany... totally absurd pricing...
There are only the 3 core books which got translated and there will be no more translations from the company who did them as they chose not to renew their licence.
This is really great idea for brushing up your language skills. I have been trying to track down the 3.5 or 4.0 Players handbook in Arabic if anyone knows where I can get it. I am so tired of reading "Ali and the Camel".
This is really great idea for brushing up your language skills. I have been trying to track down the 3.5 or 4.0 Players handbook in Arabic if anyone knows where I can get it. I am so tired of reading "Ali and the Camel".
Agreed! Although having looked up the German version of this book on both Amazon.de and eBay.de, I can tell you it probably won't be a cheap proposition. (34,95 Euros? That's more than twice what I paid for my English-language copy from Amazon.ca.)
You may want to hurry buying those German versions of the books. The publisher (Feder & Schwert) didn't renew the D&D license, so they'll have to sell their stock until the end of March (IIRC).
This 'might' also mean, there'll be some kind of sell-out soon.
D&D books in languages other than English: any advice on where to find them, without traveling abroad? In particular, I'm looking for a German version of the 4th Edition Player's Handbook.
(I'm studying German, and I need more reading material to practice with, so I figured I'd look for a German copy of the book I find myself reading perhaps the most. It worked for Emil Krebs, except he used the New Testament.)
Well, the German version of the New Testament sports much better language than any German D&D book I've ever seen.
Others have already covered ways to get the books, but apart from this I strongly advise against using D&D books as teaching material. They consist of German words but don't count as a German text.
If you want to combine RPG and language studies, go for Das Schwarze Auge (rather easy to read) or Midgard (a dryer, "scientific" apporach).
You can find short excerpts for DSA here. For DSA there are also dozens of novel available, which, while not the material to win literature prizes, are at least original German texts.
I just wish it was easier to find Fantasy books in general, in Spanish.
On topic: I was helping my son with his homework (more like verifying he got the answer right every time) when he said "D&D really helps with vocabulary dad".
That sentence is why I've tried to find good Spanish translations of D&D rule books. My sons are in a spanish immersion program (more accurately my oldest is one year out, and my youngest is finishing) and I want to keep them reading Spanish.
Here's a company that is doing the 4E Dungeon Crawl Classics in Spanish. The first one is cool because it also includes info on the city they adventure is set in. This makes the Spanish version MUCH better than the original English.
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Others have already covered ways to get the books, but apart from this I strongly advise against using D&D books as teaching material. They consist of German words but don't count as a German text.
Well, it's a slightly different situation, but as someone who basically learned English by reading the AD&D (1st.ed.) rulebooks, I think they can be a good starting point. It was really a great motivation to learn the language!
Actually, I've been able to impress my English teacher back then because I had some pretty 'exotic' words in my vocabularly :P
Of course, my grasp of the language probably improved faster once I started reading all novels in the English original (assuming the original actually _was_ written in English ). My 'breakthrough' novel was Stephen King's 'The Stand'. After finishing that book I never had to 'translate' English books in my mind to understand them. I just read them and afterwards I sometimes cannot even tell in which language they had been written...
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