[ SECRET POST #3181 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3181 ⌋

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tl;dr about my own experience

[(Anonymous)]

Anon above who pointed out fanfiktion.de. I thought of fanfic because that was actually how I got into the English language in the first place. Someone was translating a HP fic into German and when I hit the end of the translation I so desperately wanted to read more that I actually looked up the English original and read that with the help of a dictionary.

That was during a time when I just managed to not get a 5 in English for two years in a row; the next year I only just missed a 2 and my English teacher even pulled me aside to tell me how proud she was of me for working so hard. For the record, I am the laziest student you will ever meet and the only reason I got good at English was to read smutty HP fanfic.

Even if the fanfic is bad* it will give you vocabulary and a basic sense for the language. And it's good for learning because it isn't great German/English - writing styles of fanfic tend to be a lot simpler than in published books. For a beginner having simple sentences structure and a familiar canon is really helpful.


* Looking back the English fics I read in the beginning were incredibly bad. Toe-curling bad, the kind of bad were today I would backbutton after the first two lines, but they were very simple to read. I had stumbled across good fic but quickly got frustrated with them because they were beyond my skill level at the time.

Re: tl;dr about my own experience

[fishnchips]

Heh, I actually absolutely agree. I think it's also mostly a problem native speakers have with fanfic in their own language: It always seems so much more cringeworthy. I am very, very sure that the fanfic I started out with when first reading English language fanfic would have made English native speakers cringe just as much.

I actually improved my English in a similar way, tbh. And really, I have no real basis for my prejudices anymore, considerin I haven't read a German fanfic in over a decade.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

I checked fanfiktion.de out a couple of years ago and it's still awful (though they changed their layout and functions, maybe it's now easier to find quality stuff), but as a beginner you just don't realise how bad something is written.

Though I imagine that using fanfic as a gateway is harder when you have actual standards. When I switched to English I was 13/14 and I ate everything up: super!Harry, woobie!Harry, sparkly Mary-Sues, evil!Dumbledore, and so on. The edgier the better. Heck, I probably would have liked the first few chapters of My Immortal unironically if it had been published just a tick earlier.