Hah! I used the first Harry Potter novel as an audiobook to help improve my ability to understand spoken French. There are phrases that I use even today, nearl

Hah! I used the first Harry Potter novel as an audiobook to help improve my ability to understand spoken French. There are phrases that I use even today, nearly 15 years later, that I learned from listening to that novel over and over and over again in my car. I think I must have played through it nearly 100 times. As an aside, French literature pretty much sucks - don't kill yourself to get to the point where you can read Dumas or Zola in the original, it isn't really worth the effort (although I do have a bit of a soft spot for Maupassant, and French poetry is absolutely wonderful).