Develop a reading habit in 5 simple steps

[@Thelinguist]

📲 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!

[@mansionbookerstudios9629]

Come Jesus Steve I will told about Jesus

[@angiesreviews]

My new years resolution in 2024 was to start reading. I can proudly say I read almost everyday now and have read 4-5 books this year!

[@sordel5866]

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.

[@ganimedescabreralanuza1786]

Thanks for the advice!

[@陈沉沉-m2v]

Thinks!

[@estrafalario5612]

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...

[@sordel5866]

@@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.

[@sherrytzasherrytza4793]

Good tips, thanks

[@robertgloverjr]

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.

[@adalam6847]

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.

[@justinwr092]

I'm in a language learning online community (Luca's) and one day we got off topic and started sharing pics of our home libraries. Every one of us had one. I then realized that language learners are my people.

[@TheCompleteGuitarist]

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.

[@賴文茹-y1w]

Steve is a learning motivator .

[@Calliopius]

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.

[@FL4K_404]

I love this man i learn so much from him😁

[@hugofindenigg1269]

Reading helps English learners to improve and preserve only after achieving of the advanced level, because of the difference between the written and spoken word! That's my experience as a native German speaker. An exception is reading and listening together.

[@Sa_61.]

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

[@Poliglotovic]

I love to read and even reading the subtitles here in Arabic gave me some useful vocabulary while listening to enjoyable content. Thanks a lot!

[@CLARAROJAS-jd6nt]

Steve, many thanks for sharing your learnings

[@lleporskaya]

Love Your encouragement, so clear speech fast but fully perceivable

[@YuliyaTuzova]

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.

[@Swedishpolymath]

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.

[@salihgaferoglu5024]

very good video, thank you!

[@StasShyshko-n6x]

Reading and Listening r 2 tips that Very Important ❤😊

[@FirbolgApocolypse]

Had a visceral reaction when he said Wattpad like seeing someone else invoke a curse that has long held sway over you and yet you can do nothing to stop them from dooming themselves.

[@StasShyshko-n6x]

Books r very Good for Imagination ❤

[@PainReaverX2]

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.

[@azzamfs]

9:00 "iPhone box" is wild 😂😂 hell yeah, that's a good way to discourage obsessive phone use

[@wastingtimeop]

To improve your reading you have to read. But it depends on what you read as well. There is for enjoyment and also information. I used to read a book a week for years, but don't read books as much now-a-days since so much information is online whether text or video. However, if you want detailed information like history, you have to read books. There are some very detailed videos, but these are not so common.

[@AJBonnema]

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!

[@jacobpast5437]

Since you mentioned _Atomic Habits_ - I preferred _One Small Step Can Change Your Life_ by Robert Maurer and _Tiny Habits_ by BJ Fogg.

[@fuzzylogics139]

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.

[@JourneyDestination]

My habit is being FIRST to watch Steve!

[@joaquinben4458]

I love Books too!!!!

[@kirukivi3019]

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?

[@richc767]

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.

[@kasperdams8089]

Dear Steve Kaufmann and others here. I am from Denmark and I am currently learning Polish. In this regard I am curious if any of you have any recommendations regarding what is the best way to use a Polish keyboard on my computer since I do not have Polish letters on my standard Danish keyboard.

[@skamiikaze]

The Polish keyboard is exactly the same as the English one you just have to click command/control when typing certain letters.

[@kasperdams8089]

@@skamiikaze mine is a Danish keyboard. How do you type e.g. ł, ą and ę?

[@gregmcnair4272]

That was a very interesting comment that Steve made about having to see a Turkish word in order to remember it. I'd also held that point of view until I started to intensify my study of Danish. Together with a tutor, we discovered that seeing a Danish word for me was actually a distraction. So I started doing listening dictations, writing down phonetically, if needed, what I was hearing and later going back to learn how to spell properly that which I had heard. So, with Danish, I'm learning to recognize a sound first and learning to spell it afterwards.

[@bielyoung]

Are tv shows with subtitles considered reading or are books way more efficient?

[@MetalDeathMusic]

This is so frustrating for me, I love reading and grew up loving reading. But after taking a long time away from reading I now very much struggle with it. I've been trying to build that habit but it's hard. My mind constantly wanders and I start to fall asleep while reading. I bought a new bedside lamp so I can read in bed, but when I lay down I just pass out. I've bought a bunch of books to help in my journey to learn spanish and french afterwards, and I get so demotivated and frustrated that things like this just stop any little progress I'm able to make.

[@efebayndr888]

Yeah i read comments

[@eduardosantos-tv1pf]

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

[@SeanJat]

很可爱的老头😍

[@phils473]

Good habit: Skip Charles Dickens in any language 😴😴😴😅 Excellent video as usual, Steve! 👍

[@matheusneves688]

This is such a coincidence. I'm reading this book. I'm in chapter 18.

[@joebeamish]

The only hard thing about reading is finding/making/stealing the time to do it. -- Guy with family.

[@efebayndr888]

So what about read and podcast same time

[@zane17760]

罗马书10:9-10 “你若口里认耶稣为主，心里信神叫他从死里复活，就必得救。因为人心里相信，就可以称义；口里承认，就可以得救。”

[@Salah_-_Uddin]

Reading

[@TitoNaMacho]

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.

[@evelioguaperas]

I love reading japanese but I'm a masochist that LOVES kanji

[@Rudolphhhhhh]

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.

[@shanshan-dm9bj]

Is it suitable for me to comment below of five steps after watching this?😄

[@shanshan-dm9bj]

1.SET SMALL GOALS 2.SCHEDULE A READING TIME 3.BE CURIOUS 4.MIX UP THE FORMATS 5.GET OUT OF DISTRACTIONS

[@WesleyTeles-xy6rp]

Steve the great polyglot...I want to learn English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish, I also want to be a polyglot.

[@forooposicionesadministrac8954]

Luego dicen que los españoles hablamos rápido, este hombre le puso el turbo.

[@leandroacosta5731]

Hugh Hefner...🤯 Hef....you are alive!

[@ChandlerBing-t3k]

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.

[@shanshan-dm9bj]

THE METHOD CAN ALSO BE USED INTO OTHER HABIT WHICH YOU WANT TO DEVELOP😄

[@ChandlerBing-t3k]

@@shanshan-dm9bj Thank you

[@reviathan3524]

Ironically, I finished reading Atomic Habits by reading while at work when there's some downtime.

[@AlexIsVeryBored]

I would love to read more, but it's so difficult with Japanese and all the kanji 😔

[@evelioguaperas]

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!

[@Juenadi25]

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[@Lumi_Clawzz]

2 HOURS AGO?!!!???

[@muhammad-emdad-rony]

Reading habit is declined it is not true. But previous time educated people read more than today.

[@aro4cinglife]

2:24 *WHAT IN THE WATTPAD*

[@Maple_insan]

Pero que dijoo

[@zane17760]

“If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭10‬:‭9‬ ‭NLT‬‬

[@natster_]

DAMMMNNN YOUVE BEEN READING MANDARIN SINCE 1968. I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE YEAR YOU WERE BORN LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Thelinguist]

1945

[@natster_]

@ Nice, glad to see that you are alive and healthy, enjoy life my friend!

[@zemattias]

Greetings! What is your native language?

[@421sap]

In Jesus' Name Amen ✝️

[@mansionbookerstudios9629]

Steve do you know Jesus if not can we talk it

[@zartan215]

WTH

[@markchavez738]

I have been praying for Steve for many years. I hope he does.

[@mansionbookerstudios9629]

@@markchavez738 I am with you pray I hope will answer even did not know Jesus we can talk about it!

[@user-nm3ug3zq1y]

Where are the cultists coming from on this channel? Smh

[@RM-jb2bv]

The iPhone box is a good example of what James Clear in his book calls a ‘commitment device’ aka Ulysses pact.