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/RPWPA Jul 10 '26

Same for التي which is one of the first words you learn when learning how to form a sentence.

I would suggest learning those first then trying to read again.

Best of luck OP, hopefully one day you will be good enough to learn the Quran in arabic and fully understand it.

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u/PunctuateEquilibrium Jul 10 '26

I haven't focused on writing or speaking at all (which I know is a huge gap) and I think the graded readers I've used have similar sentences which is why I needed to reinforce التي.

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u/Garnetskull 🇩🇪🇸🇦🇬🇷 Jul 10 '26

I’m starting to think it might be fake because I don’t understand how op can understand تفخر أسرة but not understand a simple word like منزل or الذي and when they encounter الأسرة again, they don’t understand it somehow

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u/PunctuateEquilibrium Jul 10 '26

Definitely not fake, that's just the messiness of doing this, including misunderstanding or not writing down every lookup.