It might be better to read the Spanish after the English. If you read the chapter in English first, you’ll already know the context as well as what characters are saying, which clarifies the meaning of unknown words as you come across them. Very good book choice btw

Also, my best 10th graders attribute playing online games and chatting to people around the world as the single biggest aid in their acquisition of English. Another says that she only watches English KZbin videos. They’re in a country where English is a foreign language (not a second language), yet they’re completely bilingual.

Find something to read about a subject you like or have an interest in. It can be anything, interviews with a musician or artist in your target languages whom you're interested in, for example

@@vishnu2407 thank u for reply! Interesting suggestion) By the way, do u believe we can improve or create any speaking skills via reading? I personally think it is a matter of practice and general comunicative competence even in your L1

@@Denis-fg8hi Partly. Reading will increase one's vocabulary and improve syntax. However, speaking is more than that, such as pitch, tone, pace for example.

​@@Denis-fg8hi steve Kaufman (another believer of the theory) has learned over 10 languages from just comprehensible input, he does not start speak but gets a ton of input, overtime you should be able to speak the language as a result of having tons of input (and by a ton of input I'm sure its more than 1000 or even more) feel free to correct me if I got something wrong but this is what I understand.

By reading and listening to conversations, we implicitly practice the grammar rules. Repeatedly. Consistently. I have been teaching Taiwanese kids for the last 13 years, and can say with certainty that the four year olds who just spoke and read (instead of learning) are now fluent and bilingual 17 year olds. The kids that focused on ‘learning by repetition and practicing’ lost motivation at some point, and never overcame the hurdle.

@@colinoswald2 That's exactly the point - four-year-olds do but adults don't, otherwise you wouldn't have immigrants iwho have been in foreign countries for decades throughout the world who cannot string a sentence together without making mistakes.

​@@TheHaining You are absolutely right. People immigrate under the impression 'when you live there, you'll pick up the language' and they end up saying a few scattered words here and there but will never go far. So, if we're talking about languisitic competence, literacy, nuances of language, that is just NOT the way to do it. The environment gives you only things you do understand. The point is, as Krashen himself puts it, you acquire language as long as things are comprehensible. That is when you land in a country whose language you barely understand, how on earth are you going to reach fluency? Those benefiting the most from the environment are those already above the intermediate, as they are capable of recieving much more input.

@@TheHaining In my opinion, however, practice might work effectively when the structure or the vocabulary item has been internalized by numerous encounters (mostly when unaware of it). That is when the learner already has a FEEL of it and how it works-- I am seeing this both in my studets of English as well as in my own learning German and Italian.

@@TheHaining I'm curious what your thoughts are

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I can't agree more

Of course men are interested as well XD. My guess is that they are teachers and there are more percentage of female teachers compared to males.

Frank R. Pilot the power of reading

Thanks

Mean post! Learn stories from experts! How to start a class, how engage students. Actually the first part is the best.

@@Chuuzitos did i ask?

Its been a year since you commented on the video. How are you doing now?

Same case here.

hey

Saleem al Kinani How did it go?

السلام عليكم مرت سنتين هل استمررت في القراءة و هل تحسن مستواك هل حصلت على نتيجة جيدة في امتحان IELTS شكرا مسبقا على الاجابة

Also curious

And He is gone

Could you PLEASE tell use what happened with your IELTS?

maybe because their good or because it is easy ro remember... with all respect .. :)

msta100 i learn english with using that method and this is true i think you never been try that metod don’t judge