Reading to write better

"Last week I went to paris. We left on Sunday morning around 8:15am. We arrived at the airport at 10:15..."

Basically a list of times and places with no reflection on the experience.

I guess I improved a bit later on thanks to reading, and that kind of shocked me at first... How was I improving in something active like writing by doing something passive like reading???

But that's not the whole story. I guess you'all ("You all" is becoming more common, I think. I believe the Southern US/Texas spelling is y'all, but that's VERY regional. I've never seen it spelled you'all. The apostrophe wouldn't make sense there because it's not actually marking a contraction of anything.) know the Harry Potter series, right? Well, as impatient as I am, I couldn't wait for the seventh movie to come out, so I bought the book (in English) and read it. That was my first English book ever. After that I read a lot more, mainly books based upon movies like The Hunger Games, I Am Number Four, Divergent, and so on.

Now I'm on my journey to learn German, and I started reading "Kinder und Hausmärchen" by the Grimm Brothers. Do you think reading will help to learn the language structure and to acquire new vocabulary? 

(Has anyone... - technically incorrect without "has," but a lot of native speakers write the way you've written it here.) Anyone else applied this technique to language learning?

YOUR ENGLISH IS GREAT! I HOPE TO GET MY ITALIAN TO YOUR LEVEL SOONER THAN LATER! BRAVO! :)

Reading to write better

When i was a child i was very good in scientific subjects and not as much in literary/humanistic subjects to be specific i was quite terrible in writing what we called "tema" in Italy. It's basically a short text about a given subject that the teacher gives you ... like writing about your family or global warming.
I wasn't good at that. I lacked the imagination and the vocabular, therefore my temas looked more like a list. Something like, "talk about your last trip "would come out like this:
"last week i went to Paris. We left on Sunday morning around 8.15am and we arrived at the airport at 10.15 ....." basically a list of numbers and places with no single reference to feelings .
I guess I improved a bit later on thanks to reading. That kind of shocked me at first .... how was I improving in something active like writing by doing something passive like writing reading???
But that's not the whole story. I guess you all know the Harry Potter saga series, right?
Well, as impatient as I am I couldn't wait for the seventh movie to come out so I bought the book (in English) and read it. That was my first English book ever.
After that one many more came, mainly books that had a movie based upon them, like the Hunger Games. I am on number four, divergent and so on .
Now I'm on my journey to learn German and I started reading "Kinder und Hausmärchen" by the Grimm Brothers. Do you think reading will help to learn the language structure and to acquire new vocabulary?
Anyone else applied this technique to language learning?

****Hi...don't forget to capitalize nationalities and languages.

I am confused with divergent and so on....is that the name of one of the series of books? if so, the title should also be capitalized.

Good job!

Reading to write better

When I was a child I was very good in scientific subjects and not so good in literay/humanities subjects. To be specific, I was quite terrible in writing what we call "tema" in Italy, which is basically a short text about a given subject the teacher gives you... for example writing about your family or global warming.
I wasn't good at that, I lacked the imagination and the vocabulary to do that, therefore my temas looked more like a list, a subject like "talk about your last trip" would come out like this:
"last week i went to paris ,we left on sunday morning around 8.15am we arrived at the airport at 10.15 etc" Basically a list of numbers and places with no single reference to feelings.
I guess I improved a bit later on thanks to reading, which kind of shocked me at first... How was I improving in something active like writing by doing something as passive as reading?
But that's not the whole story, I guess you all know the Harry Potter series right?
Well, as impatient as I am, I couldn't wait for the seventh movie to come out so I bought the book (in English) and read it. That was my first english book ever.
After that one many more came, mainly books that had a movie, like "The Hunger Games", "I am Number Four", "Divergent" and so on.
Now I'm on a journey to learn German and I started reading "Kinder und Hausmärchen" by the Grimm Brothers do you think reading will help to learn the language structure and to acquire new vocabulary?
Anyone else applied this technique to language learning?