When you are learning a new language or your level is not very good, you will probably deal with a very common problem, reading in a foreign language. Lot of the people who has this problem is because they are afraid to forget something in the text, but you shouldn’t be afraid of that because it’s not truth. You needn’t understand all the words in a sentence to understand what the text wants to say to you. So you don’t need to look for all the words while you are reading. Other advises that I can give to the English readers is that is better if they choose the appropriate level of reading.
If you are a starter reader, don’t read complex books or plays that belong to an upper level. Also you must vary your reading strategies according to what are you reading. You don’t read in the same way a novel as a restaurant menu. When you are reading you can read in three different ways.
The first one is skimming, that consist on reading quickly a short text in order to understand the main ideas (for example a back book).
The second one is scanning that consists on looking for a specific point of information that you have previously into your mind (ex: a restaurant menu).
And the last one is Reading for detail that consist of reading carefully a text. For example a new cooking recipe.
Another fact that is so relevant is that we can predict the words that follow the ones that we read, we can guess what the text is going to say, sometimes we guessed right and other times we don’t.
There are some things that you can do to improve you’re reading. For example you can read every kind of texts into English, you can read the instructions to set something or a cooking recipe that you already know in you language.
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