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Dark_Sunshine
Diglot
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| Message 9 of 10 11 April 2009 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
Turbo wrote:
I'd suggest taking a one year subscription of the French edition of the Reader's Digest. Anyway that's what I did. I got bored reading newspapers all the time. I also wanted to have a broader, more general vocabulary. At the same time, I didn't want to spend a lot of time learning words and phrases that I would never see again. I then remembered that when I learned English years ago, I used to read the Reader's Digest. The thing about the Reader's Digest is that:
- a variety of general topics are covered
- the language is not too difficult
I had stopped reading the Reader's Digest a long time ago. And on the rare occasions I had the chance to pick up a copy to read it, it was seldom the case that there's a word that I didn't know already. So it occurred to me that the Reader's Digest could serve as a benchmark of some sort of minimal requirement. In other words, my French (or any language that I study for that matter) should be good enough that I understand almost all the words appearing between the covers of a Reader's Digest issue. I therefore set myself the task of looking up every single word I didn't know already in the French edition of Reader's Digest during a one year period. It proved to be more difficult than I thought, meaning my French was not as good as I thought it would be. Anyway, in the end, the efforts were well worth it. |
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Presumably you can now look forward to lots of French junk mail to read, for many decades after your subscription to Readers' Digest has expired... ;-P
Edited by Dark_Sunshine on 11 April 2009 at 10:10pm
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Tetraglot
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| Message 10 of 10 11 April 2009 at 10:25pm | IP Logged |
Actually no. After my subscription was over, I might have received mail from Reader's Digest a couple of times asking me to resubscribe. Apart from that, I haven't received any French mail.
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