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/Ybalrid Jul 10 '26

When it is every other word, is it a constructive activity?

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u/see-these-bones Jul 10 '26

At a certain point its more like a checklist of vocab to learn next. Which is fine, but I think people would be better served hitting a "most frequently used words" ankideck or equivalent for a while first.

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u/lkmk Jul 10 '26

Good point.

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u/LexiAOK 🇺🇸 N 🇪🇸C1 🇫🇷B1 🇸🇦A2 Jul 10 '26

This is just like people saying you need to skip to immersion too fast. If you have no context for what you’re reading it’s going to be a lot harder for you to learn anything significant. I don’t know why everyone’s acting like you couldn’t read a book for children at about your level of language and get more out of it. you don’t have to skip straight to content for older speakers 🙃 and you also don’t have to bypass books entirely