Post by account_disabled on Dec 25, 2023 22:51:34 GMT -8
I recently started reading books in English . I have been following several blogs in English for some time, on various topics such as blogging, copywriting, writing in general, web design and web marketing. But reading an article is not difficult at all. The number of words is very limited. Reading a novel, an essay, a biography is very different, not only in terms of length. You can find countless new words. Slang phrases. References to things, situations that you don't know, that you can't know because it's not your world. My first book was a biography, a very simple text, but it's more than fine to start with. It is about the life of the writer Laura Ingalls .
Some may have followed the television series Little House on the Prairie several years ago . Series which, as I discovered after reading that book, took some liberties with the events that occurred. Helping myself with an online dictionary to speed up reading, I finished that first book. Interesting from a historical-biographical point of view, but not in Special Data terms of writing style. Having finished that volume, I started and finished Laura Ingalls' first novel, Little House in the Big Woods , the first of a box set of nine novels that I purchased in bulk some time ago. A better style and many new terms which have enriched my English. The novel is very detailed, although it is just over 200 pages, but Laura Ingalls meticulously explains the life of nineteenth-century American pioneers. The decision has now been made. Among the three books I read at the same time there will be a book in English.
Now I've stuck with The Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks. Then maybe it will be the turn of one of two interesting volumes of horror stories purchased on Amazon. Stuff that doesn't arrive in Italy. The advantage of reading in English is more than obvious. Knowledge of the language is improved. At first it won't be easy to remember all the new terms that come across, and in fact some words just couldn't get into my head, but after the fourth or fifth time I went to look them up in the dictionary they never left my mind. It's nice to see how, at a certain point, the pages flow before your eyes as if that were your native language. As if I had always read in English. Read quickly and understand what you read quickly. The final result, over time, will be to read without the aid of the dictionary.
Some may have followed the television series Little House on the Prairie several years ago . Series which, as I discovered after reading that book, took some liberties with the events that occurred. Helping myself with an online dictionary to speed up reading, I finished that first book. Interesting from a historical-biographical point of view, but not in Special Data terms of writing style. Having finished that volume, I started and finished Laura Ingalls' first novel, Little House in the Big Woods , the first of a box set of nine novels that I purchased in bulk some time ago. A better style and many new terms which have enriched my English. The novel is very detailed, although it is just over 200 pages, but Laura Ingalls meticulously explains the life of nineteenth-century American pioneers. The decision has now been made. Among the three books I read at the same time there will be a book in English.
Now I've stuck with The Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks. Then maybe it will be the turn of one of two interesting volumes of horror stories purchased on Amazon. Stuff that doesn't arrive in Italy. The advantage of reading in English is more than obvious. Knowledge of the language is improved. At first it won't be easy to remember all the new terms that come across, and in fact some words just couldn't get into my head, but after the fourth or fifth time I went to look them up in the dictionary they never left my mind. It's nice to see how, at a certain point, the pages flow before your eyes as if that were your native language. As if I had always read in English. Read quickly and understand what you read quickly. The final result, over time, will be to read without the aid of the dictionary.