[DeepL Translation - needs review] An Italian picture book read in the Gangwon dialect!
Emmanuele Bertosi's work was written and read in the Gangwon-do dialect by novelist Lee Soon-won!
The perfect match for the snowy mountain village of Friuli in Italy was a mountain village in Gangwon Province, Korea. We emailed novelist Soon-won Lee, who was born and raised in Gangwon Province, and after seeing both Emmanuele Bertosi's paintings and writings, he graciously agreed to translate Bertosi's st...
This book is written in 강원도 사투리; I didn't realise this and was very confused when I started reading.
Various animals are taking shelter from the terrible weather when a human couple joins them, and pop! Out comes a baby. It's a Christmas story.
Apart from being unoriginal, the choice of animals was a bit bizarre (a woodpecker?), and didn't really seem to have any significance. The story just came across as a bit random and messy.
From a language-learning perspective, I w