The Harry Potter series is being celebrated by the University of Calgary.

The U of C's language research centre has created a display of the first book in the series in all 70 languages it has now been translated into.

The centre also made recordings of the novel's first two paragraphs in all of the languages as well the collection of readings was recorded primarily to be used by students and teachers

You can listen to the recordings on line at the language research centre's website.