Special thanks to our guest blogger for this post.
Are you looking for a new hobby?
Do you want the adventure of circling the globe but are on a “Ramen every day, every meal” budget?
Would you like to explore new cultures and new languages without having to deal with passports, sardine-like airline seats, and frustration while wishing you could read the menu so you could stop eating “soup du jour” every day?
Do you want to live old memories again and again, but with a fresh new sense each time?
There is an answer for you. Seek out that small classic book you read when you were young, and obtain editions from around the world. Build a globe spanning collection.
Once you have internalized the gist of your favorite book, you can turn the pages and read along without needing to be bothered to learn the language.
Two excellent candidates, originally published in French, have been reprinted in dozens of languages. They are “L’Homme qui plantait des arbes” (“The Man who Planted Trees”) translated into Korean and “Le Petit Prince” (“The Little Prince”) translated into Arabic.
