Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5525 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 9 of 75 14 December 2009 at 7:07pm | IP Logged |
Not yet, but I need to do a lot more reading in both languages I'm studying.
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jondesousa Tetraglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/Zgg3nRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6254 days ago 227 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Mandarin, Spanish
| Message 10 of 75 14 December 2009 at 7:09pm | IP Logged |
I try to read a bit every day in several languages including English, Esperanto, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, and Latin.
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administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7366 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map
| Message 11 of 75 14 December 2009 at 7:29pm | IP Logged |
I only read in foreign languages - that's a bit sad. I should go back to my native French some day!
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genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5458 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 12 of 75 15 December 2009 at 2:02am | IP Logged |
Not of a high enough level to call it reading yet but my favorite learning activity for language is to take a Manga and try to read it, I can get a bit through it but I hit a lot of Kanji I don't know.
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6899 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 13 of 75 15 December 2009 at 3:43pm | IP Logged |
I try my best to read something in most of my languages, even if it's only 15 minutes. I probably read and write more in English than my native Swedish.
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Theodisce Octoglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5876 days ago 127 posts - 167 votes Speaks: Polish*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Czech, French, English, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Portuguese
| Message 14 of 75 31 December 2009 at 3:29pm | IP Logged |
I read texts written in English, French, German and Latin almost every day. Now I'm beginning with Ancient Greek texts and try to read Old French from time to time. It has been a very important part of my life for a few years.
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Dripdrip Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5514 days ago 58 posts - 62 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Italian
| Message 15 of 75 31 December 2009 at 7:27pm | IP Logged |
I'm currently reading a novel in French, a novel in German and a history of medieval Germany in German. Since I've just finished a large French novel I'm concentrating more on the German. My German isn't good enough to read poetry properly yet, but I'm looking forward to being able to do so quite soon.
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ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5798 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German
| Message 16 of 75 31 December 2009 at 10:13pm | IP Logged |
In her book "Polyglot: How I Learn Languages" Kato Lomb says she used reading as her
primary way to learn languages.
I'm planning to increase how much Italian reading I do. I've been listening to a lot of
podcasts in Italian but grammar is really crystallized in text.
I actually learned a lot of English that way when I was a kid.
Edited by ChiaBrain on 31 December 2009 at 10:14pm
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