Re: Reading goal for 2022 - need your advice?
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:45 pm
Oh well, you taught me a word I didn't know: hapax.
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Le Baron wrote:Oh well, you taught me a word I didn't know: hapax.
So, all these questions 'how many pages per day (or in total) I need to read in order to become fluent?' don't make much sense, unless you specify your reading mode.
iguanamon wrote: The simple formula after the basics that almost always works is "read a lot; listen a lot; write some; speak when you can".
german2k01 wrote:How many books did you read in "intensive reading " mode?
It seems to me that, again, you want to hear some magic number. Like, the moment you read 10k pages, 5 million words, you suddenly become fluent.
german2k01 wrote:How much time should I allocate for it in a day? Some people say not just more than 20 minutes a day as this way of reading is mentally exhausting and conversely, in your case, I believe it is the main method of learning the language at least that's what the impression I have got. Please correct me If I am not wrong.
einzelne wrote:With extensive reading you won't get that many repetitions of low frequency words, so if you want to accelerate your pace, intensive sessions (with consequent review of new words and expression) is a good option. But again, you can only see the results after a year or two. It's in the nature of low frequency words to appear rarely. And, again, I would like to emphasize that by low frequency words I mean not some obscure words which even native speakers would find it hard to define but pretty common words which, depending on what you read, can barely occur in your texts.
einzelne wrote:The example, I think, I already shared with you is a French word sauterelle (a grashopper). Since the beginning of pandemic, I read around 30 books in French, and I've only met this word once.
Dragon27 wrote:After all, natives do develop their passive vocabulary somehow.
einzelne wrote:"Sauterelle" has an obvious root and a diminutive suffix, so it doesn't seem to me to require any kind of intensive memorization and review routine either. I know, not all "common rare" words are like that, but many of them are.