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| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5032 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 9 of 13 24 July 2014 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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I sometimes thing it would be good to have a "double-useful" link to click for emk's posts.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6393 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 10 of 13 24 July 2014 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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So crazy to me how you call French opaque, tbh :)
Also, I wouldn't say parallel texts are only for the low levels. They're a great tool for any difficult text, especially if you keep looking up words and not finding them in your dictionary. Other than this, I certainly agree :)))) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elenia Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom lilyonlife.blog Joined 3652 days ago 239 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Swedish, Esperanto | Message 11 of 13 24 July 2014 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've taken to looking up words for shorter texts and then, as emk says, only looking up
words in longer texts if I have seen them a few times and have absolutely no idea what they could mean. It also helps for me to decide beforehand whether I want to read intensively or extensively. You can try reading a text extensively first, and then going back and reading intensively (or doing it the other way round, which is probably more practical, but you might get sick of the text if you're reading something quite long.) One other suggestion I have seen here on HTLAL is to only read a few paragraphs intensively. That can also really help improve the fluidity of your extensive reading :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Enrico Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 3541 days ago 162 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Italian, Spanish, French | Message 12 of 13 01 September 2014 at 12:45am | IP Logged | ||
I usually read books in Kindle app for iOS and tap unknown words to look them up in built-in dictionary and so as not to interrupt the pleasure of reading I mostly skip unknown words as long as I have a basic gist of what is going on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 3843 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 13 of 13 14 September 2014 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, when reading a book in a target language, usually I continue if I encounter a word I don't know. However, if I feel
that somehow that word that I don't understand is an important word to know (because of the context, o because I encounter it many times) than I look it up. If I find that there are too many words I don't know, I usually postpone the book to better times. I once read De Alchemist in Dutch, and I had a comprehension rate around the 20/30%. I went through the end of the book but it has been so heavy and boring that I don't recommend anyone to do it. To me it's worthy to read if I can understand at least the 70%. Also, it is possible that you will find sentences which you understand all the words but not the meaning of the sentence. This can happen if you don't know enough grammar and especially if you use to study isolated words with srs flashcards. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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