This is what Barry Farber, 28 languages, said he did, before the internet. He would get a newspaper article or whatnot. Go through one paragraph at a time. Read it and try to understand, highlight the words he didnt, look them up, go onto the next paragraph. He liked it because the more you do it the fewer words you need to highlight so you can look them up, and you have a visual reference how you are improving.

This is the most helpful video I have seen on youtube on how to read in a foreign language, thank you so much!!!!

I suggest watching movies in foreign languages with subtitles . It will help especially for beginners and eventually you will learn you don't need them. Immersive translate generates them better

This video is very helpful for me to understanding why my first foreign novel reading was hard! The book was for teens, but It was also filled with a lot of embellishing words. When I start to read the next book, I will follow your guidance. Thanks for sharing your tip for us.

My process: - I read a children's book the first time without looking anything up and a second time in which anything I come across that I don't know I try to deduce from the context or accompanying pictures. - Afterwards I reread the book a third time, and make flashcards for every word that I either didn't know or wasn't even sure off and had to use contextual or visual clues to understand. - I spend a lot of time on these flashcards because I don't do simple word-word translations, those are quite useless in the long term. I include proper example sentences (which are relevant and "often" used in real life) in the flashcard in both native and target language and when going through my deck, I focus on translating the whole example sentence rather than just the word. - Once my deck contains no more blue (new cards) or red (difficult cards) I reread the book once in silence in which I focus on matching my memorized vocabulary with the story as I read, and once out loud for focusing on the pronunciation. Works quite well for me, especially with the example sentences as I try to keep them as relevant as possible. For example yesterday I was studying the verb "to fasten" in my target language (Polish), so rather than just learning "to fasten", I learn "Both children and adults have to fasten their seatbelt in the car". Anyway, just an example of what works for me, I'm still only at A2 level.

What a lovely, vulnerable, relatable video. Thanks so much for sharing this!

I hear people talking about intensive and extensive reading but I feel they fail to define exactly what those terms mean. Personally I use the terms "fast reading" and "slow reading". For any book or text, first I try to read as fast as possible without consulting the dictionary. I try to guess the meaning of any unknown word from the context. I simply ignore anything that I don't understand. Then I read again the same book or text, but this time consulting the dictionary for every unknown word I meet. The second reading is much slower but I only read the interesting or important parts of the book or text, I skip or ignore everything else. So the second reading may actually be faster than the first reading. They are not separate activities. I don't choose one kind of reading over the other. I use both kinds of reading for the same book. I read any book at least twice.

Thank you! I'm a Russian student and i have been learning English since I was six years old. And I still have a lot of difficulties like reading or speaking. Your video is really helpful 💗💗💗

영어원서를 읽고 싶어서 영어공부를 하고 있는 한국인입니다. 알고리즘에 떠서 우연히 보게 됐는데 한국어를 배우고 계신다니 반갑네요. 영상 잘 보고 갑니다!

That's a great method. I had two different processes for the two languages I study. Japanese is a very difficult language to read at first, so I started with manga that had furigana before moving on to manga without furigana and then reading novels. I recommend contemporary manga stories -- I tend to enjoy SFF but SFF manga tends to use more obscure terms and dialogue than a slice-of-life manga would. For Brazilian Portuguese, I've been reading YA novels and Portuguese translations of Japanese novels. Both have a direct writing style that is compelling but isn't overly flowery nor complex (no way am I going to start reading Portuguese with Clarice Lispector). For novels, I've been reading on kindle with a similar method as you - reading, going back to words I don't understand and looking them up using the dictionary function. After reading a chapter, if I have the audiobook in portuguese, I re-read the chapter while listening to the audiobook.

thanks for your video! it shall be helpful on my own language learning journey! :)

Thanks. This is a good video. And your hair is so cool.

Interesting discussion. Recently, I began taking up German again, after having failed to progress beyond A1-A2 a couple of years ago. Since the closest languages I know to it are English and French, I am having trouble understanding texts due to insufficient knowledge of vocabulary. So far, I have been trying watching old 2000s Japanese animations in German, and the results have been good so far... after all, even when I don't know exactly what they're saying, with the images, I can reconstruct the meaning of what's going on.. more-or-less. With texts, it's been trickier. I tend to prefer fiction to non-fiction because, although I am not a literature person, I feel like fiction is more forgiving: With non-fiction, I feel like I don't enjoy the text unless I have a clearer grasp of what's going on, which means that I feel more pressed to use the dictionary. As for reading fiction, my experience has been that if a text is too easy (say, the fairy tales of the Grimm brothers), I feel like I don't learn anything, but if it's too hard or too psychological or too convoluted, I also feel like I don't learn anything. The sweet spot is hard to find: just hard enough to teach you something, but not too hard to the point where you feel 100% lost. Despite being quite above my current level, I will begin reading the Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown), and see how it goes. Since I watched the movie, and it's an engaging narrative, hopefully, I will make it until the end :D.

Great advice which I willnuse for Spanish and French books. I have a long way to go before I can do this in Russian.

Thank you for an interesting, useful and positive video! Greetings from Ukraine!

that's actually how i learned English, i wanted to read manga badly when i was a teen and at that time, there were very few available mangas in my mother tongue, therefore i was like ok, I'm gonna read these no matter what and it actually worked, and the thing is, exactly how you said it, reading is a combination of extended and intensive learning and generally extended tend to have more portion of the time around 80% or even more ( i mean, it kinda make sense as well when you look at it and realize, that you are learning couple of words per page and that's enough, after a book of 300 pages, with the approximate 3 Words per page, you've learned 900 words at the end; which is alot )

I AM OBSESSED with buying my favourite books in different languages…and sometimes reading it in the two languages at the same time…which is a huge jump between worlds while the text is the same the difference in language adds a wonderful flavour to any novel….everyone should try this method..! I went to the extent of having five editions in five languages of the same work of Dostoevsky…so my tip would be don’t change the style of books, try not to buy something unfamiliar on top of the unfamiliarity of the language you make it a double task..it is better to start with a simple famous literature that you already know…or you better try to swallow “how to win your boss” type of books ( self help )😅

Good method, i will use it, spasibo

Thank u for share your method😊

Omg the process you explain was the same I used when I learned English however when I started to learn Franch I totally forgot how overwhelming reading the first book was. I intended to do an intensive reading of Le petit prince but I ended up learning the hard way that it wasn't a book for beginners nor a book a kid could actually comprehend even though it's a "book for kids". Now I'm trying to pick up my first book in korean. The main reason I started learning korean are the fantasy novels of which I've already read a few in English so I know damn well there's no way I can read them in korean at my current level because of how complex they are. Do you have any books you can recommend me? Also It really surprised me how much I relate to your experience, even learning the same languages.

Thanks

I'm learning japanese but i'm low xp yet. I did the math and it would take me 1 - 2 months to read Harry potter 1 reading 2 hours per day. I wonder how long it takes to get good enough to be able to read a book a week, imma be challanging myself to read 52 books in next year.

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You speak too fast and i almost do not understand, when I have a higher level I'll watch all your videos, I wrote this comment from my mind, please tell me if it's well typed ❤

How to find books in your target language for free? In America i use the public library, but the do not have and French books

Hi! I love your video. What would you do if you were reading on a Kindle?

This is good strategy. You have any recommendations for books to read in Korean?

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Any suggestions on how to read a book in an electronic format such as pdf and how to annotate it?

How do you find books to read in a different language?? I'm in the USA and I can't find anything I can buy in my target language. I can't even get anything off Amazon

i have read much more books in english than in my native language (spanish

Girl I am an A2 level and I wanna reach the B2 level in order to pass the DELF test can help me pleaseeee on how u did learn it ❤❤

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Hi i want to learn to speak and read in French and Portuguese.

Hey what about if I understand more half of book does it worth to keep it going or maybe I chould choose another one? Im reading a comicbook.

thx it helped me can you recommend to me books in English that can beneficial to me

Have you tried dual language books

The best application to practice English for free?

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you look so much like noah finnce lol

I have never read a book in my fucking life :)