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I like reading,but only in my native language.From tomorrow i will built a new habit to read an English book to improve my English reading.Thanks for your great advice.
Some more tips: 1) Vary the difficulty, style and length of what you read so that in the same day you might be reading something challenging and something easy. 2) Set modest page targets and then, once you've achieved them, pick up something else to read as a reward, or carry on if you feel you're in the groove. 3) Don't set time targets; reading will take the time it takes and looking at clock can break your concentration. 4) Reflect on what you read, keep a log of how difficult/rewarding it was to read. 5) Always be planning and thinking about what you want to read in the future. 6) Don't second guess your choice of books; there are NO bad books when you're using them for language acquisition. 7) Back up every now and again; reading the same paragraph twice can be even more effective than reading two different paragraphs. 8) Make a dictionary work for you; don't become enslaved by it.
A comment on the point 6: Don't be afraid to leave for a future time a book that it's appealing but clearly waaaay too difficult for your present level. Sometimes the hard vocabulary isn't that hard after just the first 5% of the pages, so try it... But if it keeps way too difficult after more than 10% of the pages, then it is no sin to put it in a corner of the room until you give it a second chance next month...
I live in Uruguay and my spoken spanish is not bad, I get by more than adequately, I do know that my vocabulary both lexically and grammatically is limited. I am doing parallel reading. I have severl books of short stories and I flip back and to between languages. You learn more if you already know what the story is about and what to expect, so I read a short story by say Borges or Cortazar, and then I read it in Spanish, and if I am motivated I will repeat the same story. It is likely sufficient to only ever read one decent book or story and re-read it until you understand the language through that repetition. Of course that might seem boring to some, but it does work. I am a language teacher and succesfully utilize there methods in my classroom.
Bonsoir : Salut Steve, Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec vous en ce qui concerne le rôle de la lecture dans l'apprentissage des langues. En tant que lecteur passionné par la lecture depuis ma jeunesse, J'ai trouvé beaucoup de plaisir à lire des romans en français, surtout aux grands écrivains français classiques, et grâce à cette lecture, j'ai pu améliorer mon français et atteindre un niveau intermédiaire B2 avancer. À mon avis La meilleure façon d'apprendre une langue étrangère et de lire des romans en prenant du plaisir, merci. Cordialement
I love books. I tend to buy a lot of books. History books, spy novel books, etc. you name it. I need to get into the habit of buying books in foreign languages now that I am about start travelling more regularly.
I'm begging you please make a video of you speaking Turkish. I grew up with the language, and after hearing you speak English, french, Japanese and other languages, it would be exceptionally unique to hear you speak Turkish as well.
I used to be an avid reader as a child, but over time, I read less and less. In recent years, I only managed to read about one book a year. However, this year, I started reading every day again. Now, I read one to three books a month. It's not a huge amount, but I prefer to read slowly so I can understand it better. I usually read in the languages I'm learning: English, Portuguese, Chinese. There are many book channels on Telegram, I'm subscribed to some of them so I don't think people read less these days.
Read a few hands full of books over the span of my life (I’m 46 years old), but it has never been a consistent habit. Still wish it was. Now learning French I read my first comic in French: TIN TIN, which was great because the pictures helped greatly in understanding what the words could mean. It was entertaining and made me laugh enough to want to continue and finish the story despite of some longer slabs of text making it hard and annoying 😅 Now I started my second TIN TIN. I just read a few pages here and there or set an alarm for a 🍅 amount of reading time. I still have hope I will become more consistent. Often once I start: I enjoy the activity. It’s the starting itself that gets in the way. Or actually the mental blocking just before. It’s the mind that sometimes seems to work against me.
Thank you very much for the video. It is indeed motivating to read more. I did wonder, when you spoke of the difficulties in English, whether you ever looked at Shavian, which is a different writing system for English. Each phoneme in English has its own character. Anyway, just wondering. Good video!
The only thing I would tell teachers is don’t implement book reports after reading a book! I used to love reading until I had to do book reports starting in grade 4-8 and hated it. Book reports made reading feel like a chore! I much preferred reading a few pages a night and discussing a book with the class. I only got back into independent reading a few years ago.
I read every night. However I have not tried reading in my target language enough. I do try to read articles from online newspapers in my target language.
I'm learning Turkish, so happy you mentioned Turkish many times. ^_^ However, I struggle to find e-books in Turkish. Do you have any suggestions about where I could find affordable e-books in Turkish? Finally my vocabulary has increased and I feel ready to start reading books to work further on my vocabulary. But in my kindle app (which I use for other languages), there are very few available books in Turkish. What do you recommend?
I am so thankful to Steve Kaufman for teaching me the importance of imbibing massive amounts of input (reading, podcasts with auto-generated textual transcript, etc.) instead of obsessing over grammar rules and verb conjugations and word lists.
Hi. I ve beem reading some boock, but I hed a question about one, because I dont no if its EUA or Britch english.The book is "The art of inovation Tom Kelley"?Thenks
Reading is easier for Romance Languages or languages that use Roman Alphabet, but for Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Hindi, Arabic) it's really freaking hard.
It may be harder to read languages that use different writing systems than our mother languages, it requires a lot of time and effort... but it is also very, very, VERY rewarding when we can finally grasp what was completely unreadable to us before. We get the feeling we are going to another world. As for me, still learning Japanese for 6 years, I feel it, and that is really fascinating. That keeps me motivated.
I can't stop reading manga, I love looking up kanji and the feeling of finally being able to guess it from previous knowledge is amazing. I love kanji so much it's unreal!
To tell the truth I don't enloy read specially because I don't know what to read. So should I read what I listen? for example I enjoy watching tv shows and podcast.
I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who broughtOh people, we are your sisters, by God 😭😭😭 We do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you, oh nation of Muhammad. People are brothers. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. My appeal to every Muslim, oh Lord, if he sees this message, may He prolong his life, make him happy, and cover him. May God reward him. God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power or strength except with God. Oh people, oh nation of Muhammad, oh people of goodness, oh people of mercy. We are your sisters and your children. By God, we do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you. Oh nation of Muhammad, I only spoke out of extreme hunger and distress. My mother, sisters, and I are displaced from our homes because of the war. We are in a state that no one knows about except God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, against those who brought us to this state 💔💔 By God Almighty, I only wrote this appeal out of extreme poverty and poverty, oh people. I beg you by God Almighty, Lord of the Mighty Throne, that I do not have food at home. By God, my brothers and sisters have been sitting around for two days. Without food, by God our situation is very difficult, we are 6 people in the house and my father passed away and there is no one to support us and we live in a rented house and we cannot pay the rest of the rent. I am not lying to you nor deceiving you nor cheating you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced because of the war between me and my family over a rent dispute and the owner of the house. By God, my brother comes every day and humiliates us and talks about us and wants us to go out to the street because we are unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and talked to the neighbors again and gave us a deadline until the end of the week and we swore to God to let us out of the street now we are in arrears of 60 thousand Yemeni riyals for 3 months rent may God have mercy on us our country is suffering because of this war and we do not find our daily sustenance and we live my mother and sisters our father passed away may God have mercy on him and we do not have anyone in the world to come to us in these harsh circumstances my little sisters went out to the street and saw the neighbors eating and stood at their door giving them even a piece of bread and by God in whose hand is the heavens and the earth they closed the door and kicked them out and they came back crying dying of hunger no one has mercy on them and now the holiday has come back to me if no one of us helps us with a kilo of flour by God we will die of hunger brother I seek refuge in God and then in you and I want your help for the sake of God I ask you by God you love goodness and help me even if it is about the rent of the house send me a WhatsApp message on this number +967735955836 and ask for my card name and send it and do not delay may God compensate you with all good My little sisters, look at their situation and help us and save us before they throw us out into the street and humiliate us or my family and I die of hunger. We ask you by God, if you are able to help us, do not delay on us, and may God reward you with good.'~~_«%•&»_~~_~&:»'////;&&;&;&;;&🎉😢😢😢😢;&;&&&//&..,!~~~♡♡♡~~~♡~♡~•~•~•~•~♡~♡~♡~;l.i.i.i.i.i.l.|-...........🎉😊🎉😢😊😢😢 😢
📲 The app I use to learn languages: bit.ly/4eAAkUB
🆓 My 10 FREE secrets to language learning: bit.ly/3XX3mGZ
❓Would you call yourself a reader? Tell me in the comments!
Come Jesus Steve I will told about Jesus
I like reading,but only in my native language.From tomorrow i will built a new habit to read an English book to improve my English reading.Thanks for your great advice.
Some more tips: 1) Vary the difficulty, style and length of what you read so that in the same day you might be reading something challenging and something easy. 2) Set modest page targets and then, once you've achieved them, pick up something else to read as a reward, or carry on if you feel you're in the groove. 3) Don't set time targets; reading will take the time it takes and looking at clock can break your concentration. 4) Reflect on what you read, keep a log of how difficult/rewarding it was to read. 5) Always be planning and thinking about what you want to read in the future. 6) Don't second guess your choice of books; there are NO bad books when you're using them for language acquisition. 7) Back up every now and again; reading the same paragraph twice can be even more effective than reading two different paragraphs. 8) Make a dictionary work for you; don't become enslaved by it.
Thanks for the advice!
Thinks!
A comment on the point 6:
Don't be afraid to leave for a future time a book that it's appealing but clearly waaaay too difficult for your present level.
Sometimes the hard vocabulary isn't that hard after just the first 5% of the pages, so try it... But if it keeps way too difficult after more than 10% of the pages, then it is no sin to put it in a corner of the room until you give it a second chance next month...
@@estrafalario5612 Yes, that's fair. Personally I'm willing to beat my head against a brick wall overcoming a difficult book, but that's just me.
Good tips, thanks
I live in Uruguay and my spoken spanish is not bad, I get by more than adequately, I do know that my vocabulary both lexically and grammatically is limited. I am doing parallel reading. I have severl books of short stories and I flip back and to between languages. You learn more if you already know what the story is about and what to expect, so I read a short story by say Borges or Cortazar, and then I read it in Spanish, and if I am motivated I will repeat the same story. It is likely sufficient to only ever read one decent book or story and re-read it until you understand the language through that repetition. Of course that might seem boring to some, but it does work. I am a language teacher and succesfully utilize there methods in my classroom.
Bonsoir :
Salut Steve, Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec vous en ce qui concerne le rôle de la lecture dans l'apprentissage des langues.
En tant que lecteur passionné par la lecture depuis ma jeunesse, J'ai trouvé beaucoup de plaisir à lire des romans en français, surtout aux grands écrivains français classiques, et grâce à cette lecture, j'ai pu améliorer mon français et atteindre un niveau intermédiaire B2 avancer.
À mon avis La meilleure façon d'apprendre une langue étrangère et de lire des romans en prenant du plaisir, merci.
Cordialement
Love Your encouragement, so clear speech fast but fully perceivable
I love books. I tend to buy a lot of books. History books, spy novel books, etc. you name it. I need to get into the habit of buying books in foreign languages now that I am about start travelling more regularly.
I'm begging you please make a video of you speaking Turkish. I grew up with the language, and after hearing you speak English, french, Japanese and other languages, it would be exceptionally unique to hear you speak Turkish as well.
Steve is a learning motivator .
I used to be an avid reader as a child, but over time, I read less and less. In recent years, I only managed to read about one book a year. However, this year, I started reading every day again. Now, I read one to three books a month. It's not a huge amount, but I prefer to read slowly so I can understand it better. I usually read in the languages I'm learning: English, Portuguese, Chinese. There are many book channels on Telegram, I'm subscribed to some of them so I don't think people read less these days.
I love this man i learn so much from him😁
Read a few hands full of books over the span of my life (I’m 46 years old), but it has never been a consistent habit. Still wish it was. Now learning French I read my first comic in French: TIN TIN, which was great because the pictures helped greatly in understanding what the words could mean. It was entertaining and made me laugh enough to want to continue and finish the story despite of some longer slabs of text making it hard and annoying 😅
Now I started my second TIN TIN. I just read a few pages here and there or set an alarm for a 🍅 amount of reading time. I still have hope I will become more consistent. Often once I start: I enjoy the activity. It’s the starting itself that gets in the way. Or actually the mental blocking just before. It’s the mind that sometimes seems to work against me.
Thank you very much for the video. It is indeed motivating to read more. I did wonder, when you spoke of the difficulties in English, whether you ever looked at Shavian, which is a different writing system for English. Each phoneme in English has its own character. Anyway, just wondering. Good video!
The only thing I would tell teachers is don’t implement book reports after reading a book! I used to love reading until I had to do book reports starting in grade 4-8 and hated it. Book reports made reading feel like a chore! I much preferred reading a few pages a night and discussing a book with the class. I only got back into independent reading a few years ago.
Since you mentioned _Atomic Habits_ - I preferred _One Small Step Can Change Your Life_ by Robert Maurer and _Tiny Habits_ by BJ Fogg.
I read every night. However I have not tried reading in my target language enough. I do try to read articles from online newspapers in my target language.
I love Books too!!!!
This is such a coincidence. I'm reading this book. I'm in chapter 18.
I'm learning Turkish, so happy you mentioned Turkish many times. ^_^ However, I struggle to find e-books in Turkish. Do you have any suggestions about where I could find affordable e-books in Turkish? Finally my vocabulary has increased and I feel ready to start reading books to work further on my vocabulary. But in my kindle app (which I use for other languages), there are very few available books in Turkish. What do you recommend?
I am so thankful to Steve Kaufman for teaching me the importance of imbibing massive amounts of input (reading, podcasts with auto-generated textual transcript, etc.) instead of obsessing over grammar rules and verb conjugations and word lists.
Are tv shows with subtitles considered reading or are books way more efficient?
Hi. I ve beem reading some boock, but I hed a question about one, because I dont no if its EUA or Britch english.The book is "The art of inovation Tom Kelley"?Thenks
Luego dicen que los españoles hablamos rápido, este hombre le puso el turbo.
Ironically, I finished reading Atomic Habits by reading while at work when there's some downtime.
Greetings! What is your native language?
My habit is being FIRST to watch Steve!
2 HOURS AGO?!!!???
Reading is easier for Romance Languages or languages that use Roman Alphabet, but for Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Hindi, Arabic) it's really freaking hard.
I love reading japanese but I'm a masochist that LOVES kanji
It may be harder to read languages that use different writing systems than our mother languages, it requires a lot of time and effort... but it is also very, very, VERY rewarding when we can finally grasp what was completely unreadable to us before. We get the feeling we are going to another world. As for me, still learning Japanese for 6 years, I feel it, and that is really fascinating. That keeps me motivated.
Reading habit is declined it is not true. But previous time educated people read more than today.
The iPhone box is a good example of what James Clear in his book calls a ‘commitment device’ aka Ulysses pact.
2:24 *WHAT IN THE WATTPAD*
I would love to read more, but it's so difficult with Japanese and all the kanji 😔
I can't stop reading manga, I love looking up kanji and the feeling of finally being able to guess it from previous knowledge is amazing. I love kanji so much it's unreal!
To tell the truth I don't enloy read specially because I don't know what to read. So should I read what I listen? for example I enjoy watching tv shows and podcast.
In Jesus' Name Amen ✝️
Steve the great polyglot...I want to learn English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish, I also want to be a polyglot.
I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who broughtOh people, we are your sisters, by God 😭😭😭 We do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you, oh nation of Muhammad. People are brothers. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. My appeal to every Muslim, oh Lord, if he sees this message, may He prolong his life, make him happy, and cover him. May God reward him. God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power or strength except with God. Oh people, oh nation of Muhammad, oh people of goodness, oh people of mercy. We are your sisters and your children. By God, we do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you. Oh nation of Muhammad, I only spoke out of extreme hunger and distress. My mother, sisters, and I are displaced from our homes because of the war. We are in a state that no one knows about except God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, against those who brought us to this state 💔💔 By God Almighty, I only wrote this appeal out of extreme poverty and poverty, oh people. I beg you by God Almighty, Lord of the Mighty Throne, that I do not have food at home. By God, my brothers and sisters have been sitting around for two days. Without food, by God our situation is very difficult, we are 6 people in the house and my father passed away and there is no one to support us and we live in a rented house and we cannot pay the rest of the rent. I am not lying to you nor deceiving you nor cheating you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced because of the war between me and my family over a rent dispute and the owner of the house. By God, my brother comes every day and humiliates us and talks about us and wants us to go out to the street because we are unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and talked to the neighbors again and gave us a deadline until the end of the week and we swore to God to let us out of the street now we are in arrears of 60 thousand Yemeni riyals for 3 months rent may God have mercy on us our country is suffering because of this war and we do not find our daily sustenance and we live my mother and sisters our father passed away may God have mercy on him and we do not have anyone in the world to come to us in these harsh circumstances my little sisters went out to the street and saw the neighbors eating and stood at their door giving them even a piece of bread and by God in whose hand is the heavens and the earth they closed the door and kicked them out and they came back crying dying of hunger no one has mercy on them and now the holiday has come back to me if no one of us helps us with a kilo of flour by God we will die of hunger brother I seek refuge in God and then in you and I want your help for the sake of God I ask you by God you love goodness and help me even if it is about the rent of the house send me a WhatsApp message on this number +967735955836 and ask for my card name and send it and do not delay may God compensate you with all good My little sisters, look at their situation and help us and save us before they throw us out into the street and humiliate us or my family and I die of hunger. We ask you by God, if you are able to help us, do not delay on us, and may God reward you with good.'~~_«%•&»_~~_~&:»'////;&&;&;&;;&🎉😢😢😢😢;&;&&&//&..,!~~~♡♡♡~~~♡~♡~•~•~•~•~♡~♡~♡~;l.i.i.i.i.i.l.|-...........🎉😊🎉😢😊😢😢 😢
Islam is cancer 🖕🏻
I will pray for you and family
@@mansionbookerstudios9629 But please pray in Catholic ✝️
Steve do you know Jesus if not can we talk it
WTH
I have been praying for Steve for many years. I hope he does.
@@markchavez738 I am with you pray I hope will answer even did not know Jesus we can talk about it!