Reading Made Easy

You don’t need to struggle with reading in a foreign language. It isn’t quite the same as reading in your own language, but you can makes it easier or yourself. Here are my top tips:
1. Read the passage three times.
2. The first time, pencil in all the words you understand.
3. The second time, read it out loud, or imagine you are reading it out loud. Do some words now sound like English?
4. During the third reading, some other words will now become obvious.
5. Now, check any sentences where you don’t understand a word. Try to isolate the key word – often a noun, the subject of the sentence, or the verb. Look up just that word.
It becomes a bit like doing a jigsaw puzzle. The meaning of the whole gradually becomes clear as you uncover the meaning of individual words.