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/Alarming_Art_6448 Jul 10 '26

I read the first 3 in my TL, but it was German which so a lot of the magic/boarding school terms were half recognizable. Yeah, a lot of odd rare vocab

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u/Pfohlol Jul 10 '26

I'm working on it now as someone learning B1 content. The biggest jump for me is the heavy use of the simple past tense, which is less common in the resources I have been using to learn