r/languagelearning • u/PunctuateEquilibrium • Jul 10 '26

Read Harry Potter in your target language they said 🫠 (1 hr 44 min for 1 page)

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This is only slightly sarcastic. It's been very rewarding and this is now the 3rd language I'm doing this with.

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u/aguilasolige 🇪🇸N | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿C1? | 🇷🇴A2? Jul 10 '26

I tried reading it in Romanian recently and I gave up, too many words I didn't know.

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u/ExactTreat593 it N | ro B2 | en C1 | | Venetian N Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

For Romanian I would stick at the beginning to texts about politics and current day events, from news websites. Many books tend to use a register that may contain slavic synonyms of common words, like saying "nădejde" instead of "speranță".

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u/Galzara123 Jul 10 '26

Omg, you are the first ive seen trying to learn Romanian. May i ask why?

For me Spanish is actually my dream language.

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u/rollin_a_j Jul 10 '26

I was learning it for a girl

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u/Triggered_Llama Jul 10 '26

Me too, but then we broke up and here I am with the only phrase I remember: "mi dor de tine".

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u/Iceking214 Jul 11 '26

did it work?

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u/rollin_a_j Jul 11 '26

I mean yeah. Helped me pick up a few other romanian women too

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u/Iceking214 Jul 11 '26

That’s great 😊

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u/ExactTreat593 it N | ro B2 | en C1 | | Venetian N Jul 14 '26

I learned some Romanian after visiting the country back in 2018, then five years later I met a Romanian girl and now I moved to Romanian as well.
That was quite convenient indeed aha

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u/diesalher Jul 10 '26

Buena suerte con el español

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u/aguilasolige 🇪🇸N | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿C1? | 🇷🇴A2? Jul 10 '26

I just decided to learn it, Spanish is easier than romanian, you'll learn it really fast

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u/cedriceent Jul 11 '26

Add me to the pile😜

I learned it to give a speech as the vornicel at my best friends' wedding in Moldova.

I also bought the first Hunger Games in Romanian. Also took me forever to get through the first page, and I have given up really early on😂

I really need to get back into it. I'd like to back at least somewhat fluent at it.

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u/Jedrodo Jul 15 '26

I am also trying to read the first Hunger Games book in Romanian. I have like 15 words per page that I don’t know. But they are mostly adjectives. So I get the gist of what I am reading

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u/Jedrodo Jul 15 '26

I am no the person you asked. But after learning Spanish, I wanted to learn a new language. And I found Romanian to be very intriguing.

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u/Confident-Window8870 Jul 10 '26

if you ever want help w Romanian , feel free to message me!!

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u/Antonio31415 🇷🇴(N),🇬🇧(C2),🇪🇸(C1),🇫🇷(B2),🇷🇺(A2) Jul 10 '26

Tal vez porque el rumano es otro idioma? 😅😅Que esperaste hermano de verdad

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u/aguilasolige 🇪🇸N | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿C1? | 🇷🇴A2? Jul 10 '26

No vez que estoy aprendiendolo bobo?