[bobsmooth]

There's a section where you can try reading translated children's books. See if your language is supported and how good the translation is.

[underlines]

Burmese and Cambodian are 100% useless on google/bing translate, but the children books translations on the example page are really, really good.

[aeontech]

Surprisingly, translations of the books into Russian seem considerably better than into English (at least for the first three books I tried)

[thriftwy]

There's a large tradition of having texts translated into Russian, whereas English speakers would very rarely read anything translated from another language.

[debesyla]

"Tradition" sounds a bit funny knowing that a lot of Russian book publishing was/is published without author permission. Russian publishing isn't well known for following copyright laws :V

[thriftwy]

I'm pretty sure that Russian (Soviet?) publishers observed whatever copyright laws there were at the time. It's just that international copyright law is a recent phenomenon. USA is also a very late signatory of international book copyright treaties AFAIK.