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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
So whether you're mono or multi-lingual, other than the need to keep your knowledge of a foreign language alive, what are your reasons for reading literature in "other" languages?
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Keeping my knowledge of a foreign language alive (or more precise: improve it) is my main reason for reading in other languages. Availability is not such a problem here in Germany as I can imagine it is in Sweden. I once read that German is the language that most books are translated into, don't know if this is right.
Most of my foreign reading I do in English. I read chess books and a monthly chess magazine in Russian.
And I very much like to read books by authors from Latin America and by Natives from Northern America. In some way this is a whole other world. But I'm only able to read them in German, not in the original.