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How could I start reading in English? I'm a non native speaker and I find really fucking difficult to understand literature in this language yet. I'm trying to read "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett. I wanted to asking you /lit/ for some advice.

>> No.11410072

Put any words you don't know while reading in an Anki deck. It will start off very slow, but the sense of improvement you will feel is great.

>> No.11410753

1. stop posting apu
2. kill self
3. ???
4. stay dead you subhuman nigger

>> No.11410764

>>11410753

Why did you post this

>> No.11410778

>>11410764
Because I haven't slept for over 20 hours and I'm under stress

>> No.11411162

>>11410778
epic boomer style

>> No.11411187

>>11409875
I'm a non native speaker too who forgot his native language because I've been doing English too much.
I first read Jekyll and Hyde at age 12, also Witches by Roald Dahl. I think these were my two first English books when I couldn't distinguish betwen is and was.
I then read the complete Sherlock Holmes and that was great.
Basically, just read. You will miss a lot of details but the good thing about these kind of stories is that you are more curious about how it will end than linguistic twists and turns.
I never wrote down the words I don't know or anything, unless I was really curious (or the text was non-fiction and the word mattered in order to understand the argument). It takes too long and takes the exciting aspect of reading fiction imho. Especially if you aren't that good at speaking the language yet.
I just read, then more, then a bit more. That's all there is.

>> No.11411246

>>11411162
Anon fucking OBLITERATED

>> No.11411319

Just read something easy and most importantly something that interests you/that you enjoy trading. Either look into the highschool starter lit chart but even those can be hard to get into for a beginner.

>> No.11411330

>>11411187
Whats your native language

>> No.11411332

>>11411330
Turkish

>> No.11411336

>>11409875
Why would you start by reading a comedy? Surely humour is on of the hardest things to understand in a new language.

Start with Harry Potter or something, I would say Stephen King but he rambles a bit with his sentences and that might get confusing.

>> No.11411348

>>11409875
I'm not that good either. I learned the basic grammar of past, present and future tense and then I have continued to write new words on paper. I try to understand these new words and apply them so it becomes a part of my vocabulary. If you do this long enough you should be good to go. You are definitely going to make mistakes and get the wrong understanding constantly but reading is probably the easiest thing to learn. You only need to know the language well enough to understand what is said and then you can improve by learning new words.

>> No.11411374

Start off by reading books you've already read in turkish

>> No.11411467

>>11411374
Rtard

>> No.11411477

>>11411374
waste of time&life advice.

>> No.11411494

Koreanon here started with comics. Calvin and Hobbes at 16.
(quite retarded level to k-moms; I should be 70+ at TOEFL to not shame my familly's name)
Now I'm in college, still stuck at kindle 32page english eroticas.

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>>11411494
read some Hemingway
his writing is very simple

>> No.11413205

Self pathetic bump

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>>11411616
>>11409875

Charles Bukowski too