I decided to read the first Harry Potter book in Spanish to keep up my language skills. I figured since I’d already read it in English, I wouldn’t need to sit there with the dictionary, painstakingly looking up the words and ruining the flow of the story.
Well, by the end of the first chapter, I was already confused. Why were people throwing heads of lettuce through the air all the time? I certainly didn’t remember all that flying lettuce from the English version. A few chapters in, I just couldn’t take it anymore—I had to look it up.
Oh. Wait. “Lechuga” means “lettuce.” But “lechuza” means “owl.”
Nicole Finch
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