Reading in English
About two months ago I started reading my first book in English language. I thought that choosing an interesting book,a book that could easily entertain me is very important if I don't want my motivation to dry out too easily and me being left with a half-finished book which can be very frustrating. So I made a wise decision and bought myself a book by Jane Austen, an author I had already read before and enjoyed her writing thoroughly, so I can enthusiastically immerse myself in both learning a language and enjoying the storyline. But recently, as I noticed my reading is progressing too slowly, I started to doubt that I picked up a right book. I have an annoying tendency to check every word I don't know, and even every word the meaning of which I'm not sure of. Plus, I got myself an edition in my native language so I can compare the accuracy of my translations which made my progress even slower. Now, maybe I'm doing wrong by reading only one paragraph at a time, but I just can't go further into reading if there's something 'unknown' left behind. I always get the feeling that I'm omitting something important. Maybe the problem lies in my reading other books in parallel, i.e. not giving myself 100% to my English reading, but whatever being the problem, I still think I shouldn't have picked that book since I'm not sure to which extent is the language of the book reliable to nowadays English and I'm afraid I'll pick up some old-time word or phrase unconsciously, which I find suitably only if a person is already an expert in English which is not the case with me.