Harry Potter in French: Book 1, Chapter 11 (Le Match de Quidditch)

Reading in a foreign language is an amazing way to build your vocabulary, improve your overall comprehension and see examples of grammar in context

When you read anything in a foreign language, you will improve your skills. It doesn’t matter what you read; it can be a book, a magazine, a leaflet, a menu, even the back of a box of cereal. I’ve actually learnt quite a lot of vocabulary by reading the backs of cereal boxes! Whatever you get your hands on is useful. As long as you’re armed with a dictionary, you can decipher what it’s talking about.

Books are good because they contain lots of description, so you can build nouns, adjectives and adverbs quite easily, and it also helps you to get to grips with the use of trickier aspects of the language such as prepositions and verb tenses. So, in this little post, I’m going to go over a few paragraphs of the first Harry Potter book in French. In English, it’s called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or Sorcerer’s Stone if you’re in America), but in French, they call it Harry Potter à l’École des Sorciers (Harry Potter at the School of Wizards). I’ve picked a…