How long does it take to read Lost in Translation?
Ella Frances Sanders
Lost in Translation by Ella Frances Sanders takes about 2 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 3 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2014. 112 pages, about 30,800 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to describe the reflection of the moon across the water? The nuanced beauty of language is even more interesting and relevant in our highly communicative, globalized modern world. Lost in Translation brings this wonder to life with 50 ink illustrations featuring the foreign word, the language of origin, and a pithy definition. The words and definitions range from the lovely, such as goya, the Urdu word to describe the transporting suspension of belief that can occur in good storytelling, to the funny, like the Hawaiian pana po'o, which describes the act of scratching your head to remember something you've forgotten. Each beautiful, simple illustration adds just the right amount of visual intrigue to anchor the words and their meanings"-- "An artistic collection of 52 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English"--
Subjects: Iconicity (Linguistics), Picture-writing, Foreign elements, Semiotics, Translating and interpreting, Visual communication
