An Idle Wish

[poliphilo]

 Here's an idle wish:

I wish I had a native-speaker's grasp of German so I could read Rilke in the original.

Comments

[cmcmck]

He can, I can't although I do get to read Ungaretti in the original!

[poliphilo]

I can read simple things in French- but that's my limit....

[paserbyp]

How about a native-speaker's grasp of Aramaic to read Bible without translation weirdness?

[poliphilo]

That would be useful, but the Bible is a long way from being my favourite book....