🧙 Multilingual Harry Potter Book Club 🪄 Home Thread

bibliothecary · July 19, 2023, 5:11pm

Welcome to the Harry Potter Book Club!

We will be reading the first volume of the series together, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. You are welcome to read in whichever language you want, including those not yet supported on Natively.

Flag	Language	Natively Page
	Japanese	https://learnnatively.com/book/a962945845/
	Korean	https://learnnatively.com/book/34b2087840/* https://learnnatively.com/book/07fcda2e99/
	German	https://learnnatively.com/book/10267f5973/
	Spanish	https://learnnatively.com/book/a278577fca/

* This is the new translation which matches the audiobook.

Reading Schedule

We will be reading one chapter a week in the regular schedule, but if you find this too fast, there is also a relaxed schedule which covers half a chapter a week.

Regular Schedule

Week	Start Date	Chapter
1	Apr 1	Chapter 1
2	Apr 8	Chapter 2
3	Apr 15	Chapter 3
4	Apr 22	Chapter 4
5	Apr 29	Chapter 5
6	May 6	Chapter 6
7	May 13	Chapter 7
8	May 20	Chapter 8
9	May 27	Chapter 9
10	June 3	Chapter 10
11	June 10	Chapter 11
12	June 17	Chapter 12
13	June 24	Chapter 13
14	July 1	Chapter 14
15	July 8	Chapter 15
16	July 15	Chapter 16
17	July 22	Chapter 17

Relaxed Schedule

Week	Start Date	Chapter
1	Apr 1	Chapter 1 (first half)
2	Apr 8	Chapter 1 (second half)
3	Apr 15	Chapter 2 (first half)
4	Apr 22	Chapter 2 (second half)
5	Apr 29	Chapter 3 (first half)
6	May 6	Chapter 3 (second half)
7	May 13	Chapter 4 (first half)
8	May 20	Chapter 4 (second half)
9	May 27	Chapter 5 (first half)
10	June 3	Chapter 5 (second half)
11	June 10	Chapter 6 (first half)
12	June 17	Chapter 6 (second half)
13	June 24	Chapter 7 (first half)
14	July 1	Chapter 7 (second half)
15	July 8	Chapter 8 (first half)
16	July 15	Chapter 8 (second half)
17	July 22	Chapter 9 (first half)
18	July 29	Chapter 9 (second half)
19	Aug 5	Chapter 10 (first half)
20	Aug 12	Chapter 10 (second half)
21	Aug 19	Chapter 11 (first half)
22	Aug 26	Chapter 11 (second half)
23	Sep 2	Chapter 12 (first half)
24	Sep 9	Chapter 12 (second half)
25	Sep 16	Chapter 13 (first half)
26	Sep 23	Chapter 13 (second half)
27	Sep 30	Chapter 14 (first half)
28	Oct 7	Chapter 14 (second half)
29	Oct 14	Chapter 15 (first half)
30	Oct 21	Chapter 15 (second half)
31	Oct 28	Chapter 16 (first half)
32	Nov 4	Chapter 16 (second half)
33	Nov 11	Chapter 17 (first half)
34	Nov 18	Chapter 17 (second half)

Discussion Guidelines

Spoilers should always be hidden using spoiler blur.
When discussing a specific section, please mention where you are in the book, ideally by chapter so people reading different versions have a clear point of reference.
Feel free to read ahead if it’s exciting, but please refrain from spoiling ahead of the appropriate week.
If you have a question about grammar, vocab, cultural things, etc - ask! That’s a welcome part of the discussion too, and other readers will be happy to help.

Polls

Will you be reading along with us?

Yes!
Maybe…
No

0 voters

Which language will you be reading in?

Japanese
Korean
German
Spanish
Other

0 voters

Which format will you be using?

Physical book
Ebook
Audiobook

0 voters

At some point I’m planning to read through the Korean translation of the Harry Potter books. It’s a series most people are familiar with, and it’s available in a variety of formats (physical, digital, audiobook), which is great if you wish to use the L-R method. Would anybody be interested in joining?

https://learnnatively.com/series/ff94f3e6c7/

Edited

This was originally a thread for Korean, but I’m repurposing it.

The Harry Potter books are available in many languages, and it’s a series most people are familiar with. If there’s enough interest, we could have a multilingual HP book club that learners of any language could join.

brandon · July 20, 2023, 2:00am

I love your initiative at starting book clubs

I will say, we’re still a little light on users, so we may need to grow a little before we can have a proper book club. But if you’re reading harry potter, i’m happy to read along… it’s on my shelf!

bibliothecary · July 20, 2023, 3:58pm

Yeah, I’m not planning to start really soon, but I thought I’d make a thread in case any of the new users trickling in over the next few weeks were interested.

eefara · January 2, 2024, 1:38pm

If this club does start at any point, would it be okay if I read along in Spanish? It might be a while before we have a large enough userbase of Spanish learners, and it’s such a solid learner’s book for me (since I read my childhood copy to tatters) that it’d be a great opportunity.

bibliothecary · January 2, 2024, 2:21pm

We could have a multilingual book club for any/all languages. Since the series is so universal, it might make more sense to open it up to all Natively languages (and non-Natively languages!) rather than restrict it to one or two.

I wonder if I should move the thread to All Languages to see if others are interested.

eefara · January 2, 2024, 2:25pm

Couldn’t hurt, right? And if the club does somehow end up being Korean-only/99% Korean, it’s easy enough to move it back.

bibliothecary · January 2, 2024, 2:44pm

Done! Share your thoughts, people!

eefara · January 2, 2024, 2:53pm

Noting to myself so I don’t forget: I marked Japanese as an interested language in the poll solely to do an audio-only listen through.

Biblio · January 2, 2024, 2:53pm

and so the “oh, shiny new book club getting in the way of my reading plans” ™ starts…

eefara · January 2, 2024, 2:53pm

We lasted not even two full days into the new year.

Biblio · January 2, 2024, 2:54pm

same.

soggyboy · January 2, 2024, 3:27pm

Hey! I’m a WK forum user who’s only lurked around here I actually just started the first HP recently in Japanese so would be happy to discuss in a club

snowwater · January 2, 2024, 3:36pm

I listened to the first chapter of the 1st book as an audio-book in Japanese (it was actually an anki deck) and I’m really feeling tempted to join the club now (I do have far too many ongoing book clubs, though)

eefara · January 2, 2024, 3:40pm

If it helps, this (probably) won’t start for a while. There’s a ton of ongoing January book clubs, and I know bibliothecary is slammed.

HopeWaterfall · January 8, 2024, 3:24am

I’d be very happy to join, but probably not for the next couple months. I just have way too many things to do, and bookclubs that will be starting soon. Plus, that would give me some time for my Korean to get better, so that this is less of a struggle. I already have the Korean version of Book 1 though.

I’d love to join in Spanish as well, since it’s been so long since I read the first book in Spanish and I don’t remember if some of the characters’ names change or not. And now I’m curious. It might also make reading the Korean book easier if I do both at the same time.

clam0618 · January 8, 2024, 4:31am

Hi,
I’d join if/when you get through the first book and start the second one. It hasn’t been that long since I finished the first one so I don’t feel like reading it again anytime soon

bibliothecary · January 11, 2024, 7:31pm

I’ve added a poll to the first post so people can vote for when they’d like to start reading.

NeoArcturus · February 26, 2024, 11:06am

I’ve read all Harry Potter parts in German, and I absolutely love the series! There is not a single part that was boring in any way, and I will probably reread it some day, but in Japanese.

I’m not good enough yet to read it in Japanese, but I’ll be happy to leave my comments here when the book club starts!

bibliothecary · March 6, 2024, 4:29pm

Well it looks like there’s enough interest in holding a multilingual HP book club!

If you haven’t already, please vote for when you would like to start reading (poll is in the top post) - March is currently leading, so it’s possible we might be starting pretty soon!

eefara · March 11, 2024, 7:39pm

We’re currently at a tie with April and March; think we’ll call it soon @bibliothecary?