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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 9 of 11 14 December 2013 at 6:45pm | IP Logged |
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See this wikia article, including the links at the bottom.
And here's a thread about 1st person books. One more factor is your familiarity with the culture, whether real or fictional. Reading L2 books taking place in L2 culture sounds great in theory, but I find that familiar cultures make me feel more comfortable amidst all the unknown words, and it can be easier to tell if I just don't know the word/grammar or it's something cultural. This was what finally helped me start reading in German - a book translated from Finnish. Fictional cultures (HP, LOTR...) only have this effect if you already know them, rather than are discovering them via L2. So I love reading books translated from Finnish or Russian (I own some in German, Italian, Spanish, e-books in Croatian, Polish and Belarusian, audiobook in Romanian). Of course it's great to learn the L2 culture through L2 books, but I find it's better to do that when you're already comfortable with the language. Edited by Serpent on 14 December 2013 at 6:47pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tea oolong Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4415 days ago 28 posts - 33 votes Studies: Korean* | Message 10 of 11 15 December 2013 at 2:13am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the advice. I am currently reading a translated novel but I won't tamper with any dictionaries until I begin my second go around the book. In hopes this book should take a week to finish, I believe I have the patience to reread it. I will have to try the e readers, as I have a mild aversion to reading books from a tablet. It's difficult for me for attempt reading Korean from the internet. Print helps me catch overlooked words for whatever reason. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JiriT Triglot Groupie Czech Republic Joined 4796 days ago 60 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, German | Message 11 of 11 15 December 2013 at 9:55pm | IP Logged |
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Reading books may be a problem. A book for language learning should be written in
contemporary and relatively easy language. I believe it is not necessary to look up every unknown word. You can guess a lot from the context and you can skip some words, because they are not necessary for understanding (for instance, one does not know exactly the names of flowers or trees etc.) I would read some parts intensively, I mean here I would look up every word. If you have a frequency dictionary (or frequency marks in a common monolingual dictionary), learn the frequent words. The less frequent words do not learn intentionally. You can memorize the words and you can read these parts of the book several times (not the same day, of course). In other parts of the book you can read without dictionary. Or look up only some word. The more frequent ones or those necessary for understanding. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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