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I am currently re-reading the Harry Potter series.  However, I am not reading it in English, but rather in German.  This is for my German 301 class, but I am finding that I quite enjoy it.  There's something satisfying in being able to get through an entire chapter of a book in a language I don't speak very well, and comprehending most of it.  It's

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That brings back a weird memory. A friend and I got lost in Vienna, and stopped in at a bookstore to try to find a travel guide. We emerged over half an hour later, and all we had to show for it was a copy of "Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch." I don't really speak German, but since that is my favorite book in the series and I already had versions with the British and American cover art, I couldn't resist. My nerd impulses got the better of me.

I lied and told my friend it was a souvenir for a friend. Unfortunately, I left it on a train somewhere in Prague. I had forgotten about that until now...huh.

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It sucks that you lost it.

My sister likes reading children's books and other books she knows really well in French.

--PolarisDiB

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I've read each book, at most, twice. But it makes for good small talk. Plus that was the summer the last one came out, so I got kind of "caught up" in the hype.

Also: Studying Torts sucks.

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I'm pretty stoked that I comprehend most of it. There's only really been twice that I felt lost while stumbling through the kind of sentence that has like, five verbs on the end and a few twenty-letter words.

Granted, I'd bet it'd be different if I didn't already have half of it memorized.