Ambivalence wrote:
one-A-N wrote:
I have this book (in this dialect) and I have read it through many times:
http://www.harrypotterbooksonline.co.uk ... p-277.htmlOrdered. That sounds fun.

I hope you enjoy it. The sequel is "Harry Potter un de Grulich Kamer".
Please bear in mind that I had researched Low German before attempting to read these books, and have access to various dictionaries and grammars. If you only know High German, it may be heavy going (I lent my copy to a fluent German language teacher who also spoke Afrikaans and Dutch, and she found it difficult, although she recognised some of the LG words from Dutch). I found the first page required looking up quite a few words, but after that, I began to pick up speed and was soon reading it without a dictionary, relying on context (and on my knowledge of the English version) to understand the occasional word that I did not recognise. Low German is practically a distinct language to High German - you will need to learn its peculiar grammatical features if you don't already know them.
As a result of reading these two books, my fluency in Low German improved greatly, although my LG vocabulary has an peculiar bias towards magic terminology!