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Topic : Re: What's the best way to show a foreign language in a manuscript? What's the best way to show a character speaking a foreign language in a fiction manuscript? Should the foreign words be italicized - selfpublishingguru.com

Vandalay250

: Re: What's the best way to show a foreign language in a manuscript? What's the best way to show a character speaking a foreign language in a fiction manuscript? Should the foreign words be italicized

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I prefer the following:

"Je ne comprends pas," she said. I don't understand.

It's not the only way to do it, as Lauren mentioned, but I find it the most elegant, and least disruptive to the flow of the text.

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