3659. Learning a Language by (Just) Reading You Said?
A lot of people want to learn a second or foreign language. Me too. So do I. At the same time I teach that language I’m learning and acquiring, namely English. And you may know that I often say that reading books and graded readers help learn and acquire those target languages. Indeed. It’s my experience, plus Stephen Krashen says it’s so, even he pinpoints and says that fiction is better than non-fiction. Ok now I can say that only after having read a lot and used the dictionary also a lot can you learn many a word. Hundreds of them, perhaps thousands. Only then some or many words get stuck in memory. Well, maybe you'll learn a lot of vocabulary by other means. Then you can use them when speaking or writing in the target tongue. Because you’ve gotten a massive tank of lexis. Of course there are more words you can understand than the ones you can use when communicating. Passive vocab is ampler than active vocab. Then you can remember many words. And use them. And perhaps it