One of the good things about international book hypes like the Harry Potter series is that within a few years of the release of any such book, aspiring polyglots can obtain translations of the book in pretty much whichever language they want to learn. I doubt I'm the only one here who has picked up a few books he's already read - including Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - in foreign languages with the idea of practicing his knowledge of that language that way. (I have a tendency of getting fantastically optimistic that way, and then never getting beyond the first page, but nevermind that now.)

The University of Calgary recently published a website based on this concept, containing the audiobook version of the first half page or so of that same book, in a staggering 69 different languages (amusingly, as only translations are featured, the page does feature the American English audiobook but not the original British English one). A few of the languages would probably not be considered more than a dialect by most, and a number of the recordings are amateuristic enough to make you wonder if an audiobook version even exists in that language, but it's fascinating all the same, so I figured I'd share.