charlesnaismith

I watched a very useful language learning video today -

https://youtu.be/B-KZXmCMLMU

How to learn a language by reading stories
 

• Spend 50% of your language study time reading
• read at the right level for you i.e. 90-95% comprehension or on average you recognise 9 out of 10 words.
• read all the way through a chapter, then reread the chapter 2-4 times as necessary. The first one you aim to figure out the gist of what is going on, later rereads are to understand more fully and figure out what some words mean from context
• don't look anything up until the 2nd or 3rd reread, and only look up a word if it appears 5 times or more, and you still don't know what it means
• make a note of any new vocab that seems particularly useful/interesting (at most 3-4 words per page)
• your goal is to make a habit of reading for pleasure in your target language, so keep going and don't worry if you don't get everything - going over the same bit again won't help.
• If you keep getting stuck choose an easier text