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| misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4832 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: French*, English Studies: German | Message 17 of 21 03 September 2011 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can buy a laser reader, but I wouldn't use that kind of stuff unless you don't mind running the risk of being blinded by the laser.
In any case, ordering such devices on the internet is extremely dangerous. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jo15 Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4814 days ago 13 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 18 of 21 06 September 2011 at 11:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I use a similar method to a lot of you - I read a few pages, or a chapter if it's short,
underlining key or recurring words that I don't know, then go back and look them up. That way, you don't constantly break up the flow of the story and you're not forced to look up lots of descriptive words, or words you won't actively use yourself. I'm also a fan of using online dictionaries (www.wordreference.com etc) while I'm reading, because it tends to be quicker than 'real' dictionaries if you don't have an electronic one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6689 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 19 of 21 06 September 2011 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I divide my reading in extensive and intensive reading. With extensive reading the focus is on the ability to grasping the meaning and on become an effective reader, not on picking up words - if I pick up something then it is more expressions and style and facts about the subject of the text. Extensive reading presupposes that you can read the text almost without the help of a dictionary - even if there are some words you don't understand. And that means also that it comes later than intensive reading - at least for me. But reading is still easier than speaking so I can read in several languages which I don't speak yet.
If on the other hand I 'read' intensively I do it very slowly, and I look up just about anything I don't know. But actually I prefer doing something even slower, namely copying a page or so by hand, looking up new words and checking endings etc. Later I'll do a repetition of the words by transferring them to wordlists, and I may also look through the text later as a repetition. Now, this sounds extremely boring, but I actually like it because I get a really good grip on everything in the chosen passages. To speed up things I prefer using bilingual printouts - and yes, machine translations are full of errors, but they only have to help me understand the original text so the errors are not really important. I have at any time a note stand with such texts in 4-5 languages or more standing beside my preferred armchair so that I just have to reach out to find something suitable. Much of my extensive reading is done on the internet, but almost everything I study intensively is on paper. Edited by Iversen on 06 September 2011 at 11:30pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| dongsen Newbie Taiwan Joined 4795 days ago 30 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English | Message 20 of 21 26 September 2011 at 5:56am | IP Logged | ||
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It depends on your reading level, perhaps we should be a bit more concrete with regards to the book's reading
level. If you can only read 20% of the words in an average book, you are seriously wasting your time! If you can already read 80% of the books, its probably a productive effort. I am just getting to about a 50% level, and I still feel it would be unproductive to focus on reading books, except maybe small children's books (: 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4814 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 21 of 21 26 September 2011 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Graded readers are an alternative to children's books, if you can find them in your target language. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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