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Garri Potter i tainaia komnata (Russian Edition)

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I'm actually a native English speaker and read this to work on my Russian; it's surprisingly effective if you're an advanced Russian speaker looking to improve. This translation is repetitive with vocabulary, allowing someone working on their language to improve it. It's challenging in a good way for a non-native speaker to understand what was going on for most of the book; the exception is the description of Quiddich, which was enitrely too complex for me. I thought that the dialoge sounded natural and well-written, although I gather from reading the Russian press's reviews of Garri Potter i Orden Feniksa that they believed that the first book was the most poorly translated of the five to date.

Better learn Russian before reading this book. This is real Russian, there's no little helpful boxes in English saying "this word means this". It's translated for Russians, not Americans pretending to speak Russian.