A couple of days ago, I was searching for Maori content online. I was after a list of books translated into te reo. What I found was an initiative instead.
An article from 2017 said that 100 books were going to be translated into Maori. Fantastic!
Yesterday, at the Mosgiel Public Library, I found the first of those 100 books on the shelf. It is the first in the Harry Potter series, published in 2020 just last year.
I have browsed that book in 20 languages. For most of them, I can recognize the story elements. The te reo version looks about as recognizable for me as Finnish.
Easier than Arabic and Chinese. More difficult than Polish or Swedish.
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