What language do you read in?

[Halie]

I know that most of our lovely forum members are bilingual.

If you are, what language do you usually read in? Do you read in a language that isn't your native language for easy reads, and your native language for harder books?

Just curious

[Ansku]

I usually read in Finnish, but sometimes in English too. Last time I read The Other Boleyn girl in English, because there's no Finnish translation (or I don't know, is there?.) Finnish books are easier and faster to read, and local library has bad selection of English books. Someday I will read book in Swedish. That's my goal.

[Juliet]

I usually read in Italian and in English and sometimes also in Spanish...my goal is to read in French!

[Pilleriin]

Mostly I read in Estonian and English, but I've also read books in German. I try to read more and more books in English, because reading books in English really increases my vocabulary. When I want to read something difficult like Jane Austen novels, Shakespeare etc.. then I read the book at first in Estonian and after reading it in Estonian, I read the book in English, so it's easier to understand what the unknown words mean.

[Isa]

I'll read the original version if it's a book written in French, English or Spanish. If it's a book written in another language, I'll read the English or French translation.

[Halie]

I should edit my original post -- it seems that most of our members are trilingual!

I think that it's so beneficial to speak more than one language. Most Americans don't realize this and just go everywhere expecting that everyone will speak English.

[katiaisme]

I normally read in english and some books in french.

[Dominique]

Unfortunately I'm unilingual. Unless you count the differences between American English and British/Australian English

[Lu]

I read mostly in Italian but I've tried to read more and more books in English since I've fininshed high school, I don't study English anymore and I need to practice books are great When I was younger I was sort of scared to read in English (that's the reason why I started with Pride & Prejudice ) but I now I find it a lot easier. I've also more money to buy books now, because here libraries have just a few English books.
My goal is to do like Isa:

Aug 17, 2008 11:33:49 GMT -5 Isa said:

I'll read the original version if it's a book written in French, English or Spanish. If it's a book written in another language, I'll read the English or French translation.

well, only with English books, because I don't know Spanish and French. ;D

[Hanna]

I read mostly in English, because I often buy books over the internet. I guess I read maybe 60% in English, 35% in Norwegian and 5% in Spanish or something.

[Bina]

I read almost always in English, it´s my favorite language and most of what I like to read is English literature. Apart from that I read in German and Dutch and I´m working French because no matter how good the translation might be, the original is always better.

[bookworm]

If a book was written in English I prefer reading the original. The rest I used to read in Greek, but since I discovered amazon a couple of years ago, the majority of the books I read are in English...

[jella]

I usually read books in Finnish, it's easier and faster than in English. I try to read more books in English but it's hard.

[swissmiss]

I usually read in english, occasionally in french as well.

[Carma]

If it's originally written in English, I'd like to read it in English, lately I seem to read and buy a lot of english books, it just reads better for me. I always enjoy the story better when it's in English.. is that weird?
I don't read a lot of dutch books anymore... except when I wanna read a book, but I dont want to buy it (or can't find it) and teh library has the dutch translation... I really should read more books from dutch writers though.. I'm very disloyal to my own countries literary world!