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VENETO
THE SEARCH FOR LORNA
 WITH MP3 AUDIO FILE  mp3 audio - VENETO - 2,5 MB
Translated by Pier Calderan as a gift to our website.
Thank you Pier!
E-mail: pier.mi@agora.stm.it  

 

DAISY, OPAL
AND ARRANGER STORIES
  
Short stories in English translated into many languages in a convenient parallel text format to help you learn them more quickly and easily.

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AFRIKAANS
The Search for Lorna 
Daisy Macbeth
The Surprise
The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip

The Bookworm

A Matter of Justice

ALBANIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
A Nice Little Trip
The Nightwatch
The Oak
The Bookworm
Imogen
The Mumbling Man

ARABIC
The Search for Lorna 
The Surprise
1
The Surprise 2
Daisy Macbeth

The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip

BENGALI
The Surprise

BOSNIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise

BRASILIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
The Bookworm
The Wedding
Daisy Macbeth

BULGARIAN
The Search for Lorna

The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
A Nice Little Trip
The Nightwatch

CHINESE
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
The Bookworm
ARRANGER STORIES
The Auction

CREOLE
The Search for Lorna 
The Surprise

Daisy Macbeth

CROATIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise

CZECH
The Search for Lorna 
The Surprise

Daisy Macbeth
The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm
The Oak
Imogen
The Green Lodge
A Matter of Justice

DANISH
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

The Oak

DUTCH
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
The Nightwatch

The Bookworm

ESPERANTO
The Search for Lorna
Daisy Macbeth
The Surprise
The Nightwatch

FINNISH
The Search for Lorna 
The Surprise

The Nightwatch

FRENCH
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm
The Oak
Imogen

GERMAN
The Search for Lorna
Daisy Macbeth
The Surprise
The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

ARRANGER STORIES
The Auction

GREEK
The Search for Lorna
Daisy Macbeth
The Surprise
The Nightwatch mp3
A Nice Little Trip mp3
The Bookworm mp3
ARRANGER STORIES
The Auction

HEBREW
The Search for Lorna 1
The Search for Lorna 2
The Surprise

Daisy Macbeth

The Nightwatch

A Nice Little Trip

HINDI
The Search For Lorna
The Surprise

HUNGARIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth

The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

INDONESIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
A Nice Little Trip

ITALIAN
The Search For Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm
The Oak
Imogen
The Mystery of
Green Lodge

A Matter of Justice

JAPANESE
The Search For Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth

KOREAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

The Oak
Imogen

LUGANDA
The language spoken
in Uganda
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise

MONGOLIAN
The Search for Lorna
 
The Oak  

NORWEGIAN
The Search for Lorna


POLISH
The search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
The Nightwatch

The Oak 1
The Oak 2
The Bookworm
A Nice Little Trip
The Mystery of
Green Lodge

The Wedding
A Matter of Justice
ARRANGER STORIES
The River Mist
The Auction

PORTUGUESE
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise

ROMANIAN
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise

RUSSIAN
The Search for Lorna 1

The Search for Lorna 2
The Surprise
The Nightwatch 1

The Nightwatch 2
Daisy Macbeth
The Oak

SERBIAN
The Nightwatch
The Oak

SPANISH
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth

The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

The Oak
Imogen
The Mystery of
Green Lodge

The Wedding 1
The Wedding 2
A Matter of Justice 1
A Matter of Justice 2
The Serial Killer
ARRANGER STORIES
The Auction
The River Mist
OPAL STORIES
Upside Down

SWEDISH
The Search for Lorna 1

The Search for Lorna 2
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
The Nightwatch

The Bookworm

THAI
The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm

Daisy Macbeth

TURKISH
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
The Nightwatch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm
The Mumbling Man
The Oak
A Matter of Justice

UKRAINIAN
The Search for Lorna
Daisy Macbeth

URDU
The Search for Lorna

VENETO 

The Search for Lorna

YORUBA
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
The Nightwatch

ZULU
The Search for Lorna

 

In serca de Lorna

The search for Lorna

Daisy Hamilton a iera na detective privata. Ea vea trenta ani e a fea a detective da do ani.

Daisy Hamilton was a private detective. She was thirty years old and had been a detective for the past two years.

Ogni matina andea in uficio  par spetar teefonae o verzar a porta ai clienti che i vea bisogno dei so servissi.

Every morning she went to her office to wait for phone calls or open the door to clients needing her services.

Daisy na iera 'ncora tant conossua ma dee volte qualchedun teefonea par l'insersion che ea vea mess sul giornal del paese.

Daisy wasn't very well known yet but occasionally people telephoned her from the advertisement she had put in the local newspaper.

Na matina verso e undeze uno el bate aea porta del so uficio. A iera na siora grassa che a vea na stoea de peicia intorno 'l col.

One morning at about eleven o'clock someone knocked on her office door. It was a fat lady who wore a fur around her neck.

"Bon iorno, posse iutarla?" Daisy a domanda aea siora. "Prego, a vegne dentro e a se comode pur".

"Hello, can I help you?" Daisy asked the lady. "Please come and sit down."

"Oh sì voentiera! Varie veramente tant bisogno del so aiuto. Lorna, a me picinina no se a trova pì. No so cossa far."

"Oh yes indeed! I need your help desperately. Lorna, my little one has disappeared. I don't know what to do."

Daisy a ga dat aea siora grassa na cicara de cafè soeubie spetando i particoeari.

Daisy offered the fat lady a cup of instant coffee and awaited the details.

A siora grassa a sa sentà de peso e a mess a so borsa granda de curame ross suea scrivania de Daisy.

The fat lady sat down heavily and put her large red leather handbag on Daisy's desk.

"Par piasser siora, ea me dise tutt..."

"Please tell me everything - Mrs. ......?"

"Mi me ciame Edwina Humphries. Ho paura che i me domandarà schei  - ho paura che Lorna a sie stada rapia."

"Mrs. Edwina Humphries is my name. I am afraid they will ask me for money - I'm afraid Lorna has been kidnapped!"

"Ma l'è terribie, siora Humphries. Anca el sior Humphries el pensa che Lorna a sie stada rapia?

"That's terrible, Mrs. Humphries. Does Mr. Humphries, too, think Lorna has been kidnapped?"

"A me mario non ghe interessa gnent se Lorna a sie stada rapia o no!"
"Sul serio, siora Humphries? Ma so mario eo el pare vero de Lorna?

"My husband is not interested if Lorna has been kidnapped or not!"
"Really, Mrs. Humphries? But is your husband Lorna's real father?"

"No so cossa che ea intende. Ven comprà Lorna insieme", a ghe risponde a siora Humphries.
"Ve comprà... siora Humphries, no l'è permes daa lege, no lo sa..."

"I don't know what you mean. We bought Lorna together," replied Mrs. Humphries.
"You bought ............Mrs. Humphries, that's illegal, you know."

"No, in India no."
"Ve comprà Lorna in India?"
"Sicuro! E ea me tien sempre na gran compagnia, sa ea."

"No it isn't, not in India!"
"You bought Lorna in India?"
"Yes indeed! And she always keeps me great company, you know."

A siora Humphries a vea vert a so borsa granda de pee pa tirar fora un fasoett. Co do oci cussì Daisy a vea vist vegner fora daa borsa na creatura che ea se movea de qua e de a.

Mrs. Humphries opened her huge leather bag to pull out a handkerchief.
With horror Daisy saw a wiggling creature come out of that bag.

"Siora Humphries - ea meta via subito chea roba" a siga Daisy.
"Cossa? Oh Lorna - T'o trovà finalmente".
Dize a siora Humphries. "Te te scondea int ea me borsa - vigliaca."

"Mrs. Humphries - move that away immediately!" screamed Daisy.
"What? Oh Lorna - I've found you at last!" said Mrs. Humphries."You hid in my bag - you naughty girl!"

"Siora Humphries, sta qua a sarie Lorna?"
"Sì, el nostro serpente del Bengala. Grassie sa ea. Pense de no ver pì bisogno dei so servissi.

"Mrs. Humphries. This is Lorna?"
"Yes, our Bengali swamp snake. Oh thank you my dear. No, I don't think I need your services any longer!"

Intant che Daisy a serea a porta dopo che a siora Humphries a iera ndaa fora, a sa mess in testa de ricordarse de dzontar a l'insersion: gnente animai, gnente serpenti.

As Daisy shut the door after Mrs. Humphries, she made a mental note to write in the advertisement: no animals, no snakes.

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DAISY STORIES TEMPLATES
The Search for Lorna
The Surprise
Daisy Macbeth
Night Watch
A Nice Little Trip
The Bookworm
The Oak
Imogen
The Mystery of
    Green Lodge

A Matter of Justice
The Wedding
Craig
The Mumbling Man
The Old Manor House
    Ghost

Amy
The Serial Killer
The Mysterious Hand
The Lost Cat
Too Many Cakes Spoil
    the Dough

The Lost Collection Box
Heatwave
The Spin Doctor
Glynn

ARRANGER STORIES TEMPLATES
The Auction
The River Mist
Halloween

OPAL STORIES TEMPLATES
Upside Down
Parallel Homes
Different Existences
East is West and West
    is East