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I can relate.

I am actually translating The Count of Monte Cristo. Completed 5 chapters so far. Still a loooooooong way to go.

That seems like an even grander endeavour.

What are you translating it to? From which language?

English to Tamil. It is a huge endeavour.

I am not using any automated translations except to find esoteric translations (using Google Translate). Many idioms and phrases also have to be localized, so it is an intellectual challenge.

Alexander Dumas' writing is also quite beautiful and even in the limited number of chapters I have completed translating there are some excellent narratives. I am enjoying it.

My idea is to eventually publish it as a bi-lingual ebook, perhaps it would help people who are learning English/Tamil.

Interesting. Are you manually typing in Tamil or are you using a speech to text software?

I use a Surface tablet as my writing device and have a Tamil Input Method Editor (IME) for Windows installed. It does the English-to-Tamil transliteration and that helps.

Out of curiosity, why are you doing this?

Just replied in the comment above. This is more as an intellectual curiosity. I intend to publish it eventually as a bi-lingual ebook with para by para translations. Hopefully, it is useful for those who are learning one of the languages and is not a native speaker/writer of the other.

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