How to read if you want to improve your foreign languages

www.thepolyglotdream.com/reading/
I talk about the importance of reading and how to read a book to improve a foreign language

[@Tehui1974]

Summary of tips: 1. Read whatever interests you 2. Read material at a comprehensible level (i.e. 80/20) 3. Read books you enjoyed reading in your native language

[@DiamantisHell]

Tyyyy

[@JorgeF2021]

For those who struggle while reading in a foreign language, try reading erotic tales. It works. My first book in English was read in 3 days.

[@mullenenterprises]

Lmao you have the real answers

[@simphiwe4930]

Not all heroes wear capes... *Salute*

[@mora315]

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[@davidwise1302]

Well, most certainly that can provide you with motivation to do the reading. However, you can quickly run into vocabulary problems since most dictionaries you might acquire in a book store would prove of little use for the most interesting words.

[@supermegaultradelicious1219]

this is an advice i'll stick to forever

[@flexybily82]

Lucky you having such a great grandmother mate :)

[@BigSirZebras]

I am in Germany learning German and was very bored with the language and almost hated reading anything but a couple weeks ago I picked up a manga translated into German and a Roald Dahl book translated into German and I can say that it is a night and day difference compared to reading German newspapers, wikipedia or textbooks.

[@skies2808]

BigSirZebras that's right i had the same problem but i disagree with you somehow. in the manga for exemple you won't find vocabulary for science and in news paper you won't find the manga vocabulary.....which mean you had to read both of them to build a knowledge in which you can start with you're favorites Reading

[@skies2808]

And also i recomend to read news paper because it's have diffrents sides like sport, cuisine, politics, daily news and the most important things is that the news paper is writing in a simple way for people with differents levels to understand for ex you can brought a singer a doctor and a housewife who don't work and Ask them to read it they'll all understand it all regardless of their levels which mean the news paper is in the common langue.

[@user-ye2sf8zd1k]

Es ist ganz wichtig neue Sachen zu lesen oder schauen zu finden. Die Sprache ist nie langweilig, es ist nur die Leute die es spricht, das es langweilig machen (und langweilige Ansätze) kein Ansatz ist falsch, es ist wichtig, wenn wir langweilig sind, etwas neu zu finden, da wenn wir langweil sind, lernen wir nichts. Viel Glück bei eure Deutsch Abenteuer, nützt eure Fantasie, und Grüße von Australien 👍

[@munfeyri63]

@@skies2808( I know it has been one year ☹️) I think reading manga is easier than reading newspaper. Because it has pictures to help you understand things. For me while I was learning English it was just really boring to read things in English. But reading manga helped me about getting used to reading in english. once I get used to reading it became much easier to reading long texts like newspapers etc.

[@apianoadventure]

I have been watching this dude for 2 months now and I have to say. Each and every sentence that this guy says is amazing. No one has unlimited knowledge, thank god, but the difference with you Luca is that when you choose a topic to talk about, you know 99% of it and you are so convincing! You're my role model for sure and if I have one goal in my life, it's to master 5+ languages. I guess your that smart thanks to reading at least 30min/day. I'm gonna take that habit too, you definilty convinced me 😊 Thank you for this video, greetings from Martinique, a tiny French speaking island in the Caribbean

[@wadisanaa]

"Reading can change your life" the profundity of this wisdom cant be emphasized enough. Thanks for all the tips you have shared over the years.

[@hrmIwonder]

I use the kindle app on my phone to read in foreign languages. You can just touch the word and the definition and/or a translation pops right up.

[@diariosdelextranjero]

I do the same. Read the translation of an autobiography of a person who escaped North Korea in Spanish.

[@eundongpark1672]

me too. My first foreign language book on kindle was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in spanish. I really needed the dictionary function cos not many foreign language classes require students to learn words like cauldron, elf, cape or 15 ways to say "loud bang". I then went on to read a handful of trashy romances and detective stories with far less use of the dictionary. This was a WONDERFUL stage in my language development.

[@hrmIwonder]

​@@eundongpark1672 I know exactly what you're talking about. The synonyms kill ya. There's at least 15 different ways to say "he said". I'm reading my way through the Harry Potter series in French (starting book 6 soon), but I'm trying to space them out so I can enjoy them longer, so I also read some detective/spy/mystery/thriller books in between and even a trashy romance novel (which had some good, less formal vocab, more dialogue etc)... In Spanish I had found some books meant for beginners (marked with A2,B1 etc) but written for adults, so there was more adult type subject matter and vulgarities (marked as vulgar so you know not to say them), they were a lot of fun.

[@seriekekomo]

Great video! If something is going to change the world, it's going to be educated people.

[@JariSatta]

"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." --- Eric Hoffer

[@thevitruvianman9781]

seriekekomo I hope you're idea of education is not based on a certificate or a silly appellation?

[@onewish6944]

and the technological revolution, which will soon be upon us.

[@elvispresly2802]

as people who made weapons of mass destruction, etc

[@Skateforshoes]

I wish I could like this comment 100 times

[@YogaBlissDance]

Luca your presentation skills have improved so much- watching this after watching your more recent ones. Also your topic. OMG I know I need to read, i'ts calming but honestly KZbin is so seductive...and draining. Great advice for overall life- thank you.

[@theantiantihero]

I've watched many of Luca's videos, but I think this is my favorite one. He really makes an impassioned case for the importance of reading at a time when many of us are in danger of forgetting its value. I would only add that most of humanity's greatest minds were avid readers.

[@terugi]

I really appreciate your videos, Luca. Please keep doing them :) It's interesting to mention that sometimes even if the book is beyond your language level you can still enjoy reading it and learn lots from it. I remember when I read my first book in English, "The Hours", from Michael Cunningham. I didn't get even 30% of the content, but at the end I was so happy that I had finished a book in a foreign language that it triggered me to keep reading in that language, resulting in a huge improvement on my language skills.

[@diariosdelextranjero]

Wow. It takes some level of patience to pull that off.

[@NinaNina-xk9cn]

Hi Luca! I just want to thank you for all your valuable advice! By the way, I' ve just finished reading the book (that is behind you) "Make it stick" because you mentioned it on FB. Well, I really enjoyed it! I hope to see you more often here on YT! Have a nice day.

[@ben0298]

I bought your language learning master class Luca, was very helpful and motivational. Russian is a difficult language but I will get there one day :)

[@billybill6604]

just got to hear about you Luca and you are already helping me. What a great light in the horizon you are ! I like your videos and you'd give them thousands of likes if I could. warm regards from France to great Italy

[@xbluebells]

I loved hearing about your grandmother and how she help shaped you life!

[@andrewzanas9387]

Hey Luca, thank you. Reading a French book is now on my list of things to do. I have noticed that reading complete sentences (in French) and breaking them down has aided vocabulary retention immensely. Working with sentences has had a huge impact on word recognition. Spotting whole phrases often comes quicker than recalling the meaning of single words. There's a musicality involved in hearing French in phrases that complements retention. Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir? No, not you. I don't swing that way, bra, lol. Doing it this way has doubled the ability to recognize whole phrases without any need of translating them to English. French is no longer a struggle. Liaison is one underlying reason, but there can be some similarity between word and phrase sounds, and thinking in phrases instead of just in words reduced some of the conflict almost immediately. One more thing. I found that for me I like seeing a translation in the exact same syntax as it is spoken in the French. It makes it easier to think in French. Translators don't usually translate literally, so breaking down sentences word by word from the French to English this way reveals dual meanings in French we would not normally see right away. Working with Google translate side by side with Anki exposes subtle differences in translations and allows manipulating sentences and phrases without the need to show the entire translation. I've noticed slight discrepancies in the audio pronunciations between the two. Learning the phonetic IPA first has been key to gaining confidence in spoken fluency, assuming one can gain fluency without ever speaking a word of French.

[@msy5535]

This is how i started to expand my vocabulary outside of university classes and tutors. I started reading things that are interesting to me. I don't read books in Korean (the L2) but i read a lot of online comics and blog posts in Korean. As well as reading men's lifestyle magazines in Korean online (like Maxim and GQ). This has helped me quite a lot. I think the only thing that i have problems with is remembering all the words and phrases that i read that i think would be helpful (besides just writing lists and flashcard software). Great video!

[@diariosdelextranjero]

Whatever grabs your interest seems to work.

[@TracyR4]

For a very beginner, find child leveled books. We all start somewhere and I for one don't think I'm beneath it. I like the simplicity and the confidence it gives me to be able to read a very short story to begin with. It helps build my vocabulary for sure. I've been studying Polish and have found the First Polish Reader too. As a parent who homeschools, I know the value of reading and how much you learn things just by reading. So this is absolutely great advice!

[@markhannasch8260]

I teach languages in a high school and I also tutor Spanish online. I would definitely agree with this point! Reading is a useful "immersion" style of learning, even if you don't understand every word.

[@johnbass7551]

I've gone through bilingual book, "Stories from Spain" (Passport books), this fall. Great book. Smooth reading. I also use a bilingual Bible which has been really helpful too. Cheers!

[@camilotello3296]

You're always a source of inspiration and insight. I love your videos!

[@juancarloshernandezhernand7096]

Reading is one of the things to learn anything and that includes languages. Reading improves your understanding in many aspects. Thank you for share your experience. In my case I like to read about different things because that increases your knowledge in a wonderful way.

[@dfk09]

I'm so inspired now! Thank you!

[@ChiaraBellucci]

Luca you're always THE NUMBER ONE!!!!!

[@nathanieljosephgutierrez]

I now understand that reading is such a valuable skill; it will also help me with my language learning.

[@aprasovsky]

Luka, I am so grateful to for your call for reading! What you're saying is so right - we, adults, seem to read less than we used to, and our children, I'm afraid, will read even less than that. It's a very alarming trend. Спасибо за отличное видео!

[@margomarshall6754]

Thank you! Loved the Dr Seuss quote! A nice ending for your interesting talk.

[@krlezg]

I like to listen classical music when i read,it helps me to relax myself and to concentrate.

[@beatrizpalacios5776]

Thank you very much Luca for another very interested video. You 're awesome.

[@cristobal9766]

Nice advice words ! Thanks for sharing us your experience

[@bramantiwgm2146]

+Luca Lampariello I'm in love the way you speak. It's not about rules, rules, and rules of the language. It's about what our souls want to send the message for others so we can be understood by them. Thanks for share beautiful message.

[@Bondoz007]

Hi Luca, I just watched an "Easy German" vid with you in it, so I came to your KZbin channel. I'm mother-tongue English, I speak/write in Italian, and now I am learning German. I feel because I've learnt one language, I have skills already for learning the next one. But reading I think is a great suggestion and good to emphasise. I have been reading the free magazines that some stores/businesses give away as the level is not too difficult for me at the moment (ie D-Bahn magazine) and I am starting to read books for teenagers / YA as that level is almost more suitable. Grazie mille per il tuo consiglio!

[@michelles7601]

I don't really agree with the "20 words rule". I learned English through reading. I started with the Harry Potter Series because I loved it at that time. Later, in 8th grade I think, I started reading YA novels and I loved it although I didn't even know 50% of the words at first. As for now, I study Korean. I bought a bilingual book that isn't a novel but rather a short story which really helps. I'm not good enough to "just read it" so I sit down every day and write down every single word I don't know and study those because I know it's worth it.

[@thevitruvianman9781]

So reading actually helps you understand a lnaguge more yes?

[@cigh7445]

How's the Korean going? How much did the stories help?

[@rosalindamantua5001]

@@thevitruvianman9781 yes! However, its not only reading. It's important to put effort into it. Like expanding vocabulary :)

[@user-zy7kj1si5v]

hope you learning my language is going well:)

[@barutaji]

Two problems with this approach -it is super boring. If you don't understand almost anything you spend all your time reading and rereading the dictionary and not the book. If you can go through it and enjoy, great, keep going. But I don't think it works for people in general. Too much strugle = too litle enjoyment. -Word by word translation is really opaque to the real meaning of the phrases. In general the word meaning is really sensitive to the context in the phrase. So understaning is a mental gymnastic where you have to consider all word in the phrase at the same time. If you pick an advanced text it becomes exponentially harder to do it. If you strugle with every word you will strugle tenfold with the sentence. Again, if it works for yiu, great. But don't think it works for people in general

[@kevinhull7925]

I am reading "Le Petit Prince" in French. When my Italian improves, I plan on reading L'Avventure di Pinocchio.

[@vojvoda-draza]

Funny, i just read "der gestiefelte Kater" (puss in boots)

[@edsonmelendez2445]

Glad to hear from you again. :)

[@RaNa_smile]

i've subscribed t your channel last night .. i'm happy to find it in recomendations ..

[@christiandeprovence]

Hi Luca! Great videos and great Guy too! I am French 58 and polyglot myself. French, english, italien, spanish, portuguese and indonesian as a beginner. Hère is à tip I happened to find recently : reading bilingual books in two foreign languages simultaneously. As à Frenchman I will find, say, an english/italian book, bilingual with footnotes and every explanation in italian. SO I CAN LEARN MORE ENGLISH AND PRACTISE IT AND SIMULTANEOUSLY BRUSH UP AND REVISE MY ITALIAN.

[@nelbonm]

Good advice..!! I always wondered about that because I like to read and I want to improve the languages I am learning through it. Finally I concluded the same thing as you. I'm going to read books in Spanish (which it's my mother tongue) if I want ALL the knowledge of the topic and then I will find the same book in English or in Italian (which are the languages I am learning). I have read books in those both languages, but they had simple structures and that made me enjoyed them. Greetings from a venezuelan living in Mexico 😆

[@codybilbrey4811]

Great content. Valuable and informative information. Thank you.

[@babyjosh7951]

Just found your channel today. Very helpful tip. Thanks.

[@sergiopolyglot8453]

Excellent tips! Thanks for this video and for your suggestions. I've just started to learn Occitan, on my own, so your tips will certainly help me a lot! At least, I hope so! I have a problem though: regarding Occitan, since it isn't a language so much commonly spoken outside France, it gets a bit hard to find useful materials or books in that language! Fortunately a friend of mine has sent to me some e-books with children's stories in Occitan and Catalan, so everyday I read a couple pages and search out new words to increase my poor vocabulary; so I try to practice those words during all day long or use them in a simple sentence. Doing so helps me to fix them in mind. It's not that easy to find occitan speakers also, mainly because a large amount of them prefer to speak only in French.

[@nattop8810]

... what a beautiful memory sharing :))

[@blessedentity8672]

I have to learn to love reading first🤪 thanks Luca for opening my eyes about the importance of reading. Maybe later tonight , I will start reading one of my ebooks😊

[@hotrodjones74]

Simple, yet solid advice. I'm currently finishing up my 5th novel in Russian. It's been a joy to read these books. I still have a massive pile of books in Russian and French to read. Language learning and reading is a lifestyle in itself. People tell me I'm smart because I speak a few languages, but I think I'm just curious.

[@hotcakesandfreshtea3918]

Thank you very much for the inspiration!

[@justinwr092]

I've been a heavy reader all my life and if anything I've picked up the pace. Last year I looked into speedreading techniques and it was transformative. I can plow through books now (in my native language anyway). It's really worth looking into.

[@ayyanarprabhu2826]

Thank you for suggestion and let say one philosophy about book is"TODAY READER TOMORROW LEADER 🎉"

[@CarlosHernandez-tc9wr]

Thank you very much for your tips

[@moonasha]

I'm glad you say to look for the right book. I was pressured into reading books with too many unfamiliar words for me, and it made the process really unenjoyable. The story faded away, reading was no longer enjoyable, and there was so many new words I just forgot them all instantly, and it became frustrating more than anything else, the joy of reading gone. I'm trying to find things on my level now.

[@Ideophagous]

I did this with German at the suggestion of Steve Kaufmann, and chose to read all Harry Potter books (which I had previously read in French and English), and it helped me with my transition from B2 to C1 in German at least when it comes to reading (I was stuck and frustrated at the time). I still had to move to Germany to actually start speaking the language.

[@russianwitheugene]

Спасибо за прекрасные и добрые видео, которые Вы делаете. Не только само содержание, но и то, как Вы это подаете, чудесно. Спасибо, что делитесь опытом и помогаете, хотя бы отчасти, делать этот мир лучше.

[@danielfarias8083]

Your vids are so addictive ... Outstanding ;)

[@benl9047]

Great video, agree with everything you said! At the moment I'm reading 'la sombra del viento' (my spanish is about a B2 level, so it's just a little too hard for me, which is perfect). I love it because it helps me get better at spanish but it's also just very enjoyable! I like the way it's written and it reminds me of my time in Barcelona (it's set there). Something you didn't mention in this video for lower levels is graded readers. In Chinese especially I've relied on them because reading novels is so difficult and it's hard to look up new words without an alphabet. So I use graded readers with pinyin included so you can look up words. I started at 500 words, then 750, 1,000 etc all the way to 3,000 words now. That alone pretty much boosted me right up to a B1 level in Mandarin.

[@marcwhelan6314]

Hey.I'm at an upper beginner level of mandarin and was wondering what kind of reading materials you used. I would love to get my hands on as much pinyin material as possible as I want to have a good level of spoken mandarin first. Thanks

[@ouhiaachraf8943]

to be honest when i was in school i don't like anything about reading i can complete the 3 page of the book but I was completely wrong reading is the key of success not only on the language learning but also in your personal life the more you read the more you enjoy your life

[@EducationTipsToKnowledge]

+Luca Lampariello. Thank you for your videos. They are very useful for everybody. Can you send me your whatssap number. I have some question for you. This is my email: [e-mail]. Thank you very much

[@1banryukyu]

Thank you for sharing this video with us. I can read 日本語(にほんご) Nihongo or Japanese but my focus is on 武道(ぶどう) Budo or the Martial Arts. So, when I read a Japanese book it is mustly on Budo. My understanding of it is geeting better but my over all language skills in Nihongo is not getting better, so I feel.

[@JorgeF2021]

Why? What do you mean?

[@slappywhite2084]

One of the best videos on youtube

[@es4666]

I suggest reading magazines actually. The articles are usually shorter. Easier for most people. Usually one in something that interests you until you get more into books.

[@diariosdelextranjero]

KZbin comments works too if you are a beginner.

[@diogofarias1822]

I've read a lot in german translating the words I didnt know. It's a lot of work, but it took me to a higher level of knowledge in that language. I'm curious to know the difference between intensive and extensive reading.

[@diogofarias1822]

I wasn't only translating words, but also trying to figure out the whole grammar. After trying a lot of dictionaries, I found the dict.cc plus (that's the paid version) for Android. It has not only words, but expressions too. It is good for translations in english and german. But I think it's not so good in other languages (portuguese for instance, my mother tongue). I still you this one, even for law terms.

[@Amanda-qe5lj]

Diogo Farias shut up

[@vojvoda-draza]

@@marcosarocho2472 it's a great site indeed, even has good example sentences. Very useful

[@lhoussinemahfoud2853]

Good teacher !

[@FeliciaFollum]

Beautiful video.. i mostly read art books in my native language.. maybe I'll ask some artist friends for Hindi art books....

[@husseinhashim1973]

Hi Luca. You are a very interesting man. Thank u so much.. peace

[@fridasl6506]

Great video. Bravo luca

[@PolyglotProgress]

In my elementary school we had a trick for picking books called the "five finger rule". We'd open to a page and counted the words we didn't know and if it became more than the fingers on 1 hand it wasn't our level! We were just beginning to read so these were books with not many words per page, so I think the 20 word rule is a good one!

[@dmitrilyutenko32]

I used to apply "three fingers rule". It's my own rule after several years of acquiring English and it states that it shouldn't be more than three unknown words in a single page of a book. If there is more, it is not my book now. Wait for the future reading)

[@giancolabird]

Love your videos 🙂

[@LGnLA]

❤BIG THANKS to Luca's grandmother, now he's out here helping us all!!! 💯❤😊😉

[@hotrodjones74]

I did the exact same as you said with Russian. I went from reading basic texts for beginners and children to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. It takes perseverance and you should always push yourself. I like to read things that are a little challenging, but not too much. Вот, это мои пять копеек... Приятное чтение ребята!

[@KevJYT]

Good video. Thanks.

[@user-nx3fi6lu1k]

Tks for sharing

[@quimicfisic31]

Luca sigo seu método full circle, pretendo incrementar efetivamente nos meus estudos as leituras! Muito Obrigado por mas uma contribuição. Profunda Admiração! Fábio

[@amrimansor]

many thanks..

[@vytautaskuklys3829]

I love this guy

[@michelgolabaigne595]

Hello Luca, We can really learn a lot from you ... This is undoubtedly a fact ... But why should we want to change our lives …? No matter whether by reading or something else ...? Our life inevitably changes. You often quote the old wise men. I will do it now if you allow me to do so: "The fate of man is to be happy" Aristotle Tell people that they will be happier and not that they will change. The change is inevitable and often and ultimately tragic ... The only thing that matters in our stay on earth is happiness. May also ... reading makes all beings happy !!! Love regards Michel

[@paulfaulkner6299]

Reading: Something that I really don't do enough of. Not just for learning other languages. Almost certainly someone else has tried to do what you're trying to do, and they will have written about their pitfalls and successes. You can save yourself a lot of time by reading what not to do by someone who's already done it!

[@tiagorabello4156]

I've known you throught the babbel channel and I am enjoying a lot your channel, I'm learning hebrew and mainly english at moment, could you give me a advise for my english ? Congrats for u channel you are a amazing guy!

[@volna880]

Thank you😊

[@paulhogan2930]

Well said.

[@peterthomasjones3675]

started the hobbit en español... it's slow but definitely promising. learning a lot of new words. thanks for the video

[@danielcook4176]

I've been using Lingq.com for Dutch and to brush up on Spanish for about a month and a half and it works pretty good. I like to copy and paste Dutch news articles and the site allows me to click on words I don't know, and it gives me the definition. You do have to pay a little for the good version but I like it.

[@feliexerlugo7689]

I download books in my phone so when I come across a word that I'm not familiar with then I copy that word and search the meaning/translation on the internet that way I can carry on with my reading, if I really really like the book then I'll buy it. 👍

[@riotatthetop2227]

Can you recommend or show me a video where you discuss what to do if you suffer in speaking a language but can do all the other skills pretty well like listening, and reading

[@PassionforDreaming]

I started out with very basic children's books at first, but now I am currently reading Harry Potter in Spanish. I read book one in Spanish and book two in French. I also have the fourth one in French for when I finish this one. I've always tried avoiding literature classes because I never like what we're forced to read. I'd much rather read something that interests me to further my language skills. Unfortunately, when your majors are Spanish and French you don't have much of a chance to skip out on lit classes

[@programandocomandersonsouza]

Muito legal seu canal Lucas. Sou brasileiro e estudo inglês. Você fala Português? Parabéns.

[@jimmycheong7970]

Thank you

[@xiomara.ortega]

Luca, por favor, ¿podrías hacer transcripciones de tus videos y publicarlos en tu website? Sería maravilloso leer tus ideas. Eres el mejor.

[@jbyoungfr]

Très bons conseils comme d'habitude! Tu fais partie de ces personnes comme Steve Kaufmann,Richard Simcott, Moses Mc Cormick etc...qui m'ont vraiment fait me passionner pour les langues.Vas-tu revenir sur Paris? Si oui j'aimerais bien te rencontrer un de ces jours.A+

[@Yusuf1187]

Hi, I was wondering how do you find reading materials that match those requirements in the first few months? I find that I start out of super simple dialogues from which I ultimately get very little, then have to go straight to short children's stories where I only know like 10% of the words. Then I have to just look up nearly every word in order to actually read a single sentence. There is never any good transitional resources that I know about.

[@italianoautomatico]

grandissimo luchino e denisa =D

[@alexmga9303]

Learn Italian with Italiano Automatico Grazie mille per i tuoi video!

[@emadabuhagag222]

thank you

[@sergiulang5903]

Hi there Luca ! Great video ! Can you tell me if it is possible that you can help me or any os us in learning a foreign language that you do not speak ? (for example Arabic) Can you do that ?

[@RadicalPersonalFinance]

@Luca You mentioned reading Latin in this video as a child. Many people claim that children should learn Latin in school for many different reasons. One reason is they claim that knowing Latin makes it easier to learn other languages in the future. From your experience as a polyglot, do you think that Latin is useful for children to study to make it easier for them to learn other foreign languages?

[@linguaphilly]

Lol this is so true, "Le deuxième sexe" and "Discourse sur le sciences et les arts" have been staring me in the face for the past year and I still haven't touched them.

[@VloeiendVlaams]

I read books that are rewriten in easy language. That makes it easier in my opninion. Doing Finnish at this moment.

[@marvelenia6702]

Travelling Polyglott that sounds great! I am into hungarian right now and find it not so useful since none of the words make any sense. Do you have a source for simplified books please? Thanks!

[@Katherine-ds2ft]

Can someone recommend an "easy" but interesting spanish book? I am at a beginner level but I want to improve my vocab and grammar knowledge.

[@belgradewanderer]

Hi Luca! I've been teaching myself Swedish for a while now (and finished a course on Duolingo) so I decided to start reading a book in Swedish and underline every word that is not familiar to me. After first page, there were 15 of them. It sounds like a lot, even though some of them are not so commonly used (navel-belly button, farstutrappa-some kind of stairs?trubbnäsa-snub nose). Do you think its too much for me? Should I find an easier book?

[@raisent1751]

Does it makes sense listen to audio books and read the text at the same time? (And translate unknown words of course)

[@braziliaan]

I'm learning Polish and I'm intending to buy a graded reader, which are those books with a translation of the text on the page right after. Do you recommend graded readers?

[@lmatt88]

I'm argentinian and I've been learning italian for a while but everytime i try to read a complex book and i dont know the word I wanna look it up and write it down lol, it's very distracting

[@es4666]

LMatt 8 try online books where you can highlight digitally or click on the word meaning immediately

[@schoolingdiana9086]

I bought a smaller notebook, and I write down all the ones I don’t know and their translation. Then I review that notebook as needed, kind of like an impromptu self quiz. Like “let’s see if I can remember this without looking it up.” (New word on the left, definition on the right so I can cover it up.)

[@O7ghostX]

With time, you learn to ignore the words you don't know. In your native language, you don't necessarily look up every word

[@AP-yc6ll]

Provi ad usare LingQ (app e software) puoi far fondamentalmente ciò che ES ha detto nel primo commento. Io l'utilizzo spesso per migliorare il mio russo ed è fantastico! L'app ti permette anche ascoltare la pronuncia delle parole e tutto parlato d'uno speaker nativo

[@qowevisa5464]

​@@AP-yc6ll Ух я всё же угадал с тем, что "russo" является русским языком (не особо сложная задачка, всё же :) ) Я желаю тебе удачи с изучением русского языка, ведь он действительно сложный для европейцев I belive in you, bro :)

[@robertojuarezsoto4121]

Mr lampariello first of all i would like to say how are you ? and also l want to tell you my admiration. for you being. a young man and so talented my question is it possible for aman my age (61) to learn 2 languages. like french and portuguese at the same time l have.been dedicating 2 hours every day for the last 2 and. a half months l grew up speaking three languages Spanish English and. ltalian the thing is that l made a lot of progress in portuguese that l am not shy speaking it to Brasileiros but with french is a different story i memorized lots and lots of words but the. nasal sound of most words drive nuts although im not shy to speak it to French people Muito obrigado eh toujour m'admiration pour vuoz

[@j4vi3r1990]

Tengo una pregunta Luca, Estoy aprendiendo Ingles y justo ahora que estoy aprendiendo mucho vocabulario y que empezaba a obtener fluidez, comecze a tener problemas a la hora de hablar, es como si derrepente olvidara todas las palabras que se o todo lo que he aprendido, me cuesta crear una idea en mi mente y expresarla hablando, tambien comence a a tener problemas para pronunciar palabras, es como si no pudiera coordinar my mente con los movimientos de my boca, Que puedo hacer para mejorar esto que me pasa?

[@spchill927]

you are genius. I will read a book before I am sleep

[@jerryb.436]

Cześć, obejrzałem wiele twoich filmów na temat nauki języków obcych i oczywiście zainspirowały mnie one do dalszej nauki języków - angielski, hiszpański. Teraz zamierzam zacząć jeszcze naukę języka włoskiego :-) Mam do ciebie pytanie dotyczące twojej znajomości języka polskiego : czy nadal uczysz się polskiego, czy masz motywację aby się tego języka uczyć , a jeśli tak, to jak zamierzasz go wykorzystywać w praktyce ? Pozdrawiam :-)

[@prsion1925]

its cool!!!