Thursday, May 08, 2008

More monoglot angst

On the Continent, translated fiction accounts for 30% of the book market. Here the figure is a mere 3%

That report does not tell us how much of that 30% is made up of translations from English. Nor whether Continentals are any more likely than the British to read fiction from Egypt, Japan, S America …


Related post: A really modest proposal on the teaching of languages in English schools