Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

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Tendency of Translating Educationally Valued Texts from Japanese Culture into Bangla Used in Reading Literacy

“…However, Dorothy's work influences the sentence structures and interpretation of a few words. For instance, the title of the 36 th chapter is "Sengakuji" in the original work (Kuroyanagi, 1981(Kuroyanagi, /1984) and Dorothy rendered it as "The Forty-seven Ronin," (Kuroyanagi, 1981(Kuroyanagi, /1982) which is the same in Chaity's interpretation. On the contrary, Hiroko Kasuya continued to keep the proper nouns as the original names.…”

“…He not only looked quite different from Mr. Kobayashi, but he used to recite classical Chinese-style poems in solemn voice. (Kuroyanagi, 1981(Kuroyanagi, /1982 TTT 2: Translation of PST: Chaity Rahman's translation in Bangla (Kuroyanagi, 1981(Kuroyanagi, /2019 Personal translation of TT (TTT2) for analysis Not only he was different from Kobayashi sensei, but also his reciting was different. He used to recite Chinese poems.…”