Sunday, April 26, 2009

Nepali - German- Nepali translation

There is no long tradition behind German and Nepali translations. It was a neglected field until recently. However, it has been started lately and gradually becoming available for the German learners esp. for Nepali people.

There are few books in Nepali medium which are quite good for beginners to learn the basic German language. I am not familiar with any published German-Nepali dictionaries. But there is a very good dictionary available in PDF file which everyone can download from this site: http://www.nepalresearch.com/dictionaries/nep_ger/nep_ger.htm, which is compiled by Karl-Heinz Krämer, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg.

Thanks a lot to Karl-Heinz; I hope he will dedicate some more time in future and publish an elegant dictionary for all the readers and learners of Nepali and German languages.

I did not find any Nepali literature translated into German. Recently, I had a correspondence with Narayan Wagle, writer of 'Palpasa Cafe', a national prize winning Nepali novel. He had agreed to have translation of Novel in the German language. I hope this project will be done soon in future.

Want to learn German?
There is a good book in Nepali medium written by Mr. Ramesh Adhikari(ISBN 99946-970-8-0). This is a Deutsch-Nepali-Deutsch book, and is useful for both Nepali and German learners. He has tried to include both Grammar exercises and conversational examples. However, he is not been able to include all cutural matters which have a great value while learning a language! I hope you can buy this book in Kathmandu!

Infact, there are many books in English medium. But there is one by Mr. Paul Coggle and Heiner Schenke, called 'Teach yourself German', this is a quite useful book. I found it very useful to know the basic German language. The writers are able to inform about the general culture of German people, and they have also compared the German language with some aspects of Englsih. So this quite useful for adult learners to learn German.

Danke!

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