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Do you read foreign books to improve your language?
I've never interested in literature so I can't boast about that I read books or even have read few novel books in my entire life. I just didn't like, was not interested and didn't see any reason to do it. Yes, I knew from other people that reading is useful for something like a self-development, erudition and at least is incredibly interesting (in their opinion).
I don't consider myself as an illiterate ignorant person. I usually read news, articles, various internet stuff, etc. but fiction is not at this list.
Few days ago I thought of my English learning progress, my weaknesses in English and how I can improve my English to decent level. I know my vocabulary is quite enough to understand daily news, typical texts, or even speech of actors in movies, for exception of certain words and phrases. I think it is not because of my rich vocabulary, but because of strictly limited amount of words which is usually used for this purposes (news, movies, tv shows, internet comments, etc.).
I think that reading of books is a good way to increase my vocabulary. I even yestarday started to read some book in English, checking unknown words in dictionary.
What do you think? Is reading of novels a good way to significantly enrich your vocabulary, improve grammar or do you know other more efficient ways to achieve this aim? Do you read books in foreighn language you've been studing? What books in English can you suggest for reading to non-native English person?
Once I tried to read Shakespeare and realized I understood almost nothing. Modern books seem to be much easier.
I know, nobody wants to correct such a big text but I'll be appreciated if you notice more significant mistakes in my post.
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What I feel...
Hello! This is my the first post at this website and unfortunately it is going to be sad. I just want to express what I am feeling now and some thoughts concerning this.
Everyday we can hear the news about airplane crashes, deaths from natural disasters, car crashes, terrorist attacs in various places of our planet. People die everyday from unpredictable circumstances but news report us it so regulary, so frequently, that we care about this less and less everytime, we become indifferent to sorrow of other people in this unfair cruel world. To be honest who really cares about unfamiliar people which in trouble in the other corner of the world for thousands miles apart of their home? Yes, we can regret about it, we can say: "What a cruel world we live in. It is so sad. Oh, poor people!", etc. but how many people remember and are upset about the news like that in a half hour after massmedia told us about this?
Today something happened that forced me to feel really depressed (sad, creepy... I can't choose the correct world). It could be just one more bad news if it happened far from my location, in other country or other region. But a terrible road accident happened just few kilometers from my hometown. Two buses faced each other, 8 people died, alot of them are seriously injured. One of that buses was full of children. It happened in the place were I've been hundreds of times. One of that buses was the regular bus by (?) which I likely went to another city many times (I regulary go there by bus for my job). Absolutely no, I'm not scared for myself, I'm not afraid to travel by bus or other kind of transport. What I wanted to say is realising the fact that something terrible happened nearby makes us perceive the events completely different.
I don't know what the moral of this story. I just expressed my feelings. Sorry if I spoiled your good mood because I didn't really want it.
11. Juli 2013
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