The Reading Strategy Every English Learner Needs to Know (Step-by-Step Guide)
Video Overview & Insights
Read for English fluency! This lesson explains how you can improve your English through reading. This is a powerful method so be sure to watch the whole video!
Want to read and listen to a story at the same time? Do so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqXpPSG2sMU
This highlights the difference between:
- Intensive reading: when you read to learn new words and analyze the language.
I started learning English with Dracula. First of all, I'd read it in my native Russian language. Then, I don't know why, I decided to read it in English. And I did - it's quite an easy book for beginners. After that first step I couldn't stop and went through Harry Potter, Twilight, Interview with the Vampire, Once upon a time in America, Think and grow rich, and a whole bunch of other books and articles... Now I'm enjoying The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night.
- Extensive reading: where you don't stop and you read for pleasure.
More on my reading for fluency method soon but first...
Wow, actually was great tip for reading and learning, I appropriate it👍
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT BOOK FOR YOU:
1. The genre: the category. Choose books that interest you.
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2. The level of the book: if it's too difficult to understand, you won't enjoy it and it won't help you. Choose graded readers. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o7DTuOYn0o
3. Books you enjoy: if you don't enjoy the book, put it down.
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FINDING BOOKS (GREAT TIP!)
Go to Amazon and "look inside" a book that you may enjoy. Start reading it and get it if you think it's appropriate.
Alchemist, Rommel : the desert fox, Harry Poter series
Find books with audiobooks too.
INTENSIVE vs EXTENSIVE READING:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
I recommend that you do both. Here is how:
1. Read extensively but highlight words (sentences that you don't understand)
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2. Do this for each chapter or for a certain number of pages
3. Go back and look up anything you don't understand
Just love that advise .... Love from BD 🇧🇩
BONUS TIP:
Take the sentences that you have highlighted and use Anki - https://apps.ankiweb.net/ - to create flashcards.
I'm reading The secret..
This is a way to internalize the new language and grammar.
More on this method here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pysIoC1bb3I
iam stuck somewhere between intermediate and advance its soo bad
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I’m reading my teacher is an alien
More User Perspectives
How i read Atomic habits book plz someone Guide me .
@badhamdan3819Hmm i should buy a psychology book then as i have my interest in psychology and learning english vocabulary
@Hemlo-g9zTuesdays with Morrie
Animal farm
This video motivates me to become better in the English. Thanks!
@vatnik_ecstasyi love reading books, especially personal growth books
@HaYaT-B-4KThank you. I struggle with reading & undestaning of English. I have to improve very essentially. Can you share one book for reading?
@justinjelood6132The power of subconscious mind
@RojanShafieezadehI think diary of a wimpy kid is the perfect book for A2 level
@user-yy2yv9dg2wI read the newspaper (Digital version), it's a great way of improving english speaking and vocabulary, I do intensive reading by instantly looking up the words meaning as it is easier now by just tapping on the word on ipad.
@ayushpanwar3736Definitely I'm going to follow your tips. I've started to read "Moby Dick" and I was starting to feel frustrated with my lack of vocabulary, but after watching your video I feel more motivated.
Thanks a lot. 🎉
Should I read silently or out loud?
@goodlife25-t5bWhy some english speakers pronounce and as an and some pronounce the and as en?
@nolzprietothank you i am reading slammed and shelock hollms
@omaralaa-p8z1cHow can you tech me to read
@DannaEdward-tn1zeI bought roald dahl books, i have 16 books of roald dahl, i read everyday , those books are helpful for me to learn, i am begginer at learn English
@lakhwindersingh-vd8knGenre: Computer Programming -Cplusplus/C++
Intensive-Extensive:
70%-30%
Recommended books:
1.OOP Programming-Robert Lafore--version C++98
2.C++ Primer-Stanley B Lippman--version C++11
3.Latest C++ version book by
Marius Bancila and Richard Grimes.
Tip:
You should not learn C programming but go directly to C++ as advised to me by a senior consultant.
Well, Thank you for the video.
I have started to buy books 30 years after college.At age 49, I am getting prepared to become a C++ Programmer and work remotely from India.
Thanks
@eobrayan201It was beneficial and practical. Thanks a lot
@navasaberi9000As a beginner level reader, I am reading "Influence". This book is I think the hardest one. Cuz I have to mark the whole page sometimes😂
@mozeegrafyThanks for your clear points and I think that's the key to acquire new language repeating new sentences daily for a long time.
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@ZineeHichamGreat job
@HamadiAhmedAhmed-p1xI think that your channel is my top 5 in youtube. Thanks for everything from Azerbaijan. I am writing in bus 😂
@stander3526Appreciate your tips as I adore reading intself per say. As I'm not very advanced in English I read for pleasure easily understandable books such as The Devil Wears Prada. Not ashamed to admit. :) Thank You for the tips on copying the whole sentences and revising them daily. I do believe it will help me immensely.
@gretadar5035The thing about highlighting words and looking then up later, is that you might need the definition then and there.
@D44TXMy fav one is the queen's gambit and many vocabs are out there!
@Alexander_theGreatest-1Thanks brother your english is amazing i really like your accent i wanna learn American accent but first I'll have to improve english then focus on accent
@SagaaVhanakoreTankyou very much
@FayyaTubeDo it today
@swapnathomas-r8zDo it today
@swapnathomas-r8zSo today i bought a book for a sole purpose of maintaining my english, and i've said to myself while in the bookstore, look a crimi drama, let's grab that sherlok holmes novel and go home. And then, i found out that sherlok holms is being written in a very old, victorian, 1800 english😅 and i was hoping for a contemporary english read. I can understand it, but the experience is not enjoyable because of the old, archaic words. Sometimes, i'm such an ignorant mess
@stephan7271Native English speaker, learning Russian. And I completely agree, this doesn’t only apply to English.
@HuntingMontanaSherlock holmes book
@1ValdricFrankenstein
@Bokamoso-h9oThank you Mr ☺️
@MarwaMH-mc8veI'm reading "the wild robot" it's interesting but it's for children. If you don't have a problem with this, I recommend this book.
@skt1451Thanks your suggestions helped a lot
@AmanMughal-rv1bjI read a great book it’s THE 48 LAWS OF POWER by Robert green
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