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| Yuliya Newbie Russian Federation Joined 6623 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: English | Message 33 of 36 29 September 2006 at 1:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Now I learning english language and i try to read books and news without any dictionary. Sometimes I understand all information, but sometimes it's boring and not interesting. I don't know why.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6694 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 34 of 36 29 September 2006 at 2:58am | IP Logged | ||
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There are three ways of using dictionaries while reading:
1) you can browse through the text without looking up anything 2) you can read the text and note the words that you don't understand, then look them up for instance after each chapter or even later 3) you can look up all unknown words while you are reading Nr. 1 can be necessary if you don't have a dictionary so it's a good thing to train that ability once in a while. But even though you may grasp the meaning you will learn few new words because you don't do anything active with the words that you read. Personally I think nr. 2 (which can be done in several slightly different ways) is the one that teaches you most, and because it's fairly quick to note down the foreign word and even easier if you just put a mark in the text it won't disrupt your reading too much. Nr. 3 (looking up words while you are reading) may be necessary if you otherwise wouldn't understand the text - but then maybe you should have chosen something else to read. If you can more or less understand the text it is a bad idea to stop reading all the time to check the dictionary because it spoils the pleasure of reading, and then you learn less both of the language and of the subject matter of the text. Edited by Iversen on 29 September 2006 at 3:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Farley Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 7083 days ago 681 posts - 739 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: Spanish | Message 35 of 36 29 September 2006 at 8:12am | IP Logged | ||
You could also do a variation on this and only look up those words that are essential to the meaning of the text, or those words you really want to learn. If you re-read the same work chances are you will note different words on the 2nd or 3rd reading. And using your "Full Recall: Dictionary Method" you could review those new words are various intervals. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| japkorengchi Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6671 days ago 334 posts - 355 votes | Message 36 of 36 29 September 2006 at 11:44am | IP Logged | ||
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If your target language is in the same language family of your mother tongue, or the target language is closely related to your first language culturally, it’s possibly to read without a dictionary. I have this experience for Japanese and to a lesser extent, Korean.
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