Thank you! That's genuinely helpful. The method I use is picking words from my writing or speech, and looking up synonyms of the words. It's risky, because not all synonyms can work in any context, which is why I stick to picking synonyms that I'm already familiar with and that are already comfortably part of my passive vocabulary, but have yet to move to my active vocab for some reason. Your method seems so much better, can wait to use it!

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

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.

you look so much like noah finnce lol

This is why I've liked LingQ so much (despite it being way too pricey) but it just streamlines the reading/highlighting process and helps you keep track of your vocab.

Great video❤

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 )

just bought twilight book 1 in French, lmao "fascination" it's called 🩸

Thanks

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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.

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 )😅

this was very helpful. i am able to read and understand a lot of vocabulary; but unable to pull those words from my head when trying to speak.

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So….you wasted the 1st 2 minutes repeating variations of “this is for…” and “ this happened to me…”. Just say your point. Correction. 1st 4 minutes. Also, the white t shirt makes you look like a psychiatric patient.

Hello mam I m aarna I want to yalk to u

And what is the thing to learn vocab efficiently??

How can I differentiate active and passive vocab? Is there a list for that?

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 ❤

Hi. Come from Vietnam, I here to learn English and I also learning English by myself. Nice video, this video is helpful for anyone learn English. I often write down comments for any videos I watch. Thank so much.

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

Thanks a lot for the video but I'm sorry to say that you're talking so fast it sounds like a challenge for me to understand you. Keep doing amazing work.❤❤

Thank you for sharing.

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 ❤❤

한국에 벚꽃 구경하러 가고 싶네요. 유익한 영상 감사합니다.

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

I also mix extensive and intensive, but I do it the easy way. There are probably other tablet readers that are good, but having used quite a few of them I would highly recommend moonreader plus, the pro (paid) version. Your tablet must be online. I read extensively, and gloss over stuff like adjectives I don't know, but every now and then there's a paragraph that seems important and my understanding is not adequate. Now you just highlight the entire paragraph, and tap on "dict" in the popup. It flips to google translate (which is why you must be online) and translates the entire paragraph, which means that it gets the words in context. Google translate is not perfect, but these days it is pretty good and 95% of the time you get the correct translation of the paragraph. This is a very efficient and relatively unintrusive (and quick) way of doing intensive reading, and is by far the best way I have found over many years of reading foreign languages.

Thx sara can you make a video about how we can be good at writing in a new language and avoid typo it really bothered me at when i am looking at a word that i have learned and after 2 weeks i made a typo

hello sara thanks for this video it's very helpful but I have a advice for you People who come to learn English not understand fast English so can you speak a bit Slower ☺

Thanks for your video

I agree. I'm an English learner, and I have tried to improve my English through countless means like Anki, books, classes, lists of words, etc. I have come to a conclusion: I don't like these methods. I used to get bored when I used Anki to study vocabulary. Nowadays, I prefer to watch more videos in English or listen to podcasts. But here is the key: I listen to the same podcast or the same video over and over again. The idea is to be able to understand every single word, its meaning, and its pronunciation. So, I look for videos and podcasts with transcripts, and I feel that I'm getting better.

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

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 💗💗💗

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.

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.

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. <3

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.

Good method, i will use it, spasibo

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

My absolute favorite reading resource is Lute, by a mile. It's a Python program and requires a little setup, but it's so incredibly powerful and useful. I can not recommend it enough.

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

In order to understand anime with a clear recognition of sentence structure despite encountering unknown words, at what level from N5 to N1 do you think is recquired in your case, considering how similar Korean and Japanese are in terms of stentence structure?

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