LANGUAGE LEARNING TIPS // How to use reading to learn a new language 

Your welcome! There is a lot more to explore for sure.

do you need someone to practice speaking

I've always wanted to play around with Prismatext. I don't know if you're into it, but reading Harry Potter and listening to the audiobooks put me wayyyyy ahead of where I was beforehand. It's a good intermediate book/series (if you wanna read them all)

Not sure I would endorse that kind of text in my language classroom as things can get lost without proper context. Some words need entire sentences to be rewritten in a target language for it to make sense. Words mean different things in different contexts. So depending on the words that were replaced it could work and be very helpful or it could actually kill your feel for the natural flow of the language and teach you things that may be difficult to unlearn once you advance to higher levels of language learning.

Dank je! Ik heb Engels gestudeerd, ben docente Engels en heb in de VS gewoond. Ook ga ik regelmatig naar Engelstalige landen op vakantie, lees ik veel en maak ik video's in het Engels. Alle kleine beetje helpen. Als je interesse hebt om te lezen over Engelstalige cultuur dan denk ik dat fictie over historische gebeurtenissen een goed begin kan zijn. Dan krijg je en een smeuïg verhaal en wat culturele feiten (uiteraard aangedikt). Non-fictie houdt ik zelf vooral van geschiedenis boeken die bepaalde periodes/ gebeurtenissen uitlichten. Ik vond The Invention of Murder door Judith Flanders een goede. Verder zou ik voor meer moderne inzichten vooral literaire fictie lezen waarbij de lezer een kijkje krijgt in de levens van mensen. Je leert veel over een cultuur door de beschrijving van alledaagse dingen.

Yes this happens a lot. For two reasons: the bar is set incredibly high either by the person learning the language but also by language learning professionals. The other reason is that many language classes only focus on receptive skills and speaking and writing are snowed under (usually due to the size of classrooms, not because teachers are incapable and/ or unwilling, but because there is literally not enough time/ resources available). This means people are not taught within a safe environment which leads to lack of confidence the minute someone says they cannot understand them or the person struggles to keep up especially when put into a native speaker environment. I actually want to do a Tea Time Chat some time this year about this topic over on the other channel. There are native speakers sometimes commenting on little accent mistakes even I still make, while I make about a dozen grammar mistakes in the same video which are linguistically much more prudent and noticeable. But because those are the types of mistakes even native speakers make they don't notice them, yet small accent mistakes which I cannot change for the life of me is what stands out to them and so they comment on that. While they have good intentions with their comments they should realize that giving that type of feedback without someone asking for it specifically can cause more harm than good if given to the wrong person. I mean, I edit my own videos, it's not as if I don't hear exactly what I could improve.

Yes that would be my recommendation. Write it down or underline things to go back to later. Or go super slow and only do a page at a time. Totally depends on your goal. Do you want to get a feel for the language and the story? Then go with the 'write down and look it up later' approach. If your only goal is to know more words then going word by word may be an alternative approach. However, language never words in isolation so a combination of both tactics may be best. Good luck with your Spanish endeavours.

@@floatinginbooks yes I definitely want to and need to increase my vocabulary so more words lol, thanks ❤️

Use Google Translate to make a parallel translation of a whole page. Take a screenshot of a page of the story and paste it into Google Translate. You can also do the same with a real book by using your phone to take a photo of a page. Not a perfect translation but pretty damn good and much quicker than looking up word by word.

I studied it, lived abroad and have been working as an English teacher for years.

All my friends in uni who studied Japanese and/ or Chinese were all taught characters first so they could move into texts. It may be difficult but that doesn't mean it cannot be helpful.in learning a language in all of its facets.

Even natives CAN'T read those languages 😅 Check on RU-vid: Can Japanese actually read Japanese? Please, don't believe me and watch it with your own eyes, so there are more chances you get me perspective. Chinese is also that difficult. I'll watch that video again, btw😅👍Because it a very funny detail about those languages. "Even natives have A LOT of problems with Chinese and Japanese"

@@PaddingtonSoula lot of people have used reading to learn chinese/japanese theres a lot of videos on youtube about it you should look it up