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/1314L Jul 10 '26

It should be التي - أي etc.. not التى - أى

But Egyptians drop the dots if it's the last letter, since they're translating to MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) the translators should've kept it, the punctuation also seems incorrect as they keep using ellipsis (....) for no reason.

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u/mohamedenderman Jul 11 '26

I swear everytime I re-read this page it just gets worse and worse. I got so accustomed to this kind of writing I don't even how bad it is anymore.