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Tourist book on Rīga published in nine languages

Andris Straumanis

May 01, 2009

A tourist guide to Latvia’s capital city, written by Rīga Vice Mayor Andris Ārgalis and available in nine languages, has been released by the publishing house Nacionālais apgāds.

“In writing this book,” Ārgalis said in a May 1 press release announcing release of Rīga, “I wanted to draw the attention of Rīga residents and city guests to the interesting details of Rīga’s splendid buildings—towers, attics, facades, cornices, ornaments, balconies, Rīga’s lions and angels.”

Among the approximately 40 areas of the city examined in the book are the Dome Square, St. Peter’s Church, the Esplanade, and several parks and boulevards.

The book is available in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Latvian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

Andris Straumanis is editor of Latvians Online.

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Andris Ārgallis’ book on Rīga has been published in nine languages.

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Annette Strauch

Super - a new guide re. to Riga. Must get it - in German!

06 May 2009 (Great Britain (UK))

Arnolds Zubeckis

I just hope the translations are up to scratch! A fair few publishing houses (not to mention government institutions) in Latvia have the habit of not getting their manuscripts checked over by specialists/native speakers of the target language (although it is a fallacy to believe that every native speaker is a good editor ... or a good translator, for that matter!). Without due care, a lot of pretty books can end up stagnating on shelves in Jānis Roze and Valters un Rapa ... a bit of humility as far as perceptions of foreign language proficiency is concerned would not go astray!

07 May 2009 (Europe)

Walter Valtuille Marttinez

I like that!the translations are helpful for anyone, because we need to go to some places and that can help us to do any things you want to... congratulations for that.

11 Jun 2009 (Brazil)

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