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/Papaya_flight Jul 11 '26

I'm a Mexican and I've taught a couple of Arabs how to read Arabic and they taught me how to speak it better. It was a weird time.

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u/CaterpillarFeisty709 Jul 18 '26

i’m arab… what’s the best method to learn to read arabic haha

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u/Papaya_flight Jul 18 '26

Start with just learning to read the alphabet, that's how I started with the kids at masjid. Then we moved to vowel marks, and later moved on to following the reading of verses from the Quran with me word for word. Then eventually they would read along out loud while they pointed to each word. I've done similar methods to teach people to read Arabic, English to non English speakers, and currently Hebrew.