Our book of the week is actually a polyglot magazine, Quinto Lingo. This magazine existed from 1964 to 1980. It published short news articles, jokes, and occasionally a play or essay. Most items were published side-by-side in 5 languages: German, French, English, Spanish and Italian.
The particular copy in my collection (April 1967, which I recently purchased on eBay) also included Esperanto versions of a few of the texts.
Quinto Lingo made a deep impression on many young language-lovers and inspired a few of them to choose language-related careers. There are some reminiscences in this thread from Linguist List.
If you click on the thumbnails below, you can read two pages.
13 August 2008
Book of the Week #6: Quinto Lingo magazine
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Thank you. Very useful. I had been wanting to show a friend Quinto Lingo, and you delivered. Appreciated! :)
Oh, yes, my parents had Quinto Lingo around the house when I was a kid. I remember going down the pages comparing the other languages, trying to decode the English without looking.
I had fond memories of receiving the magazine.
It was stopped for awhile and started up again. Then stopped. I miss the magazine.Any chance of it printing again.
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