Trying to read Dreiser
About one month ago I started to read Theodore Dreiser's "An american tragedy". Why? Because I loved his "The "Genius" and reading helps to make bigger number of known words. I have a book reader with a dictionary inside, it's very nice when you tap and hold finger on unknown word and in few seconds translation is shown. In time I understood that my memory isn't good and I can't keep those words in my mind. It's about 10 unknown words per small page. Also in the novel too many long and sophisticated sentences which hard to understand even if you know translation of words. Yes, there are idioms. I think maybe I choose wrong way to improve my own English dictionary?
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Trying to Read Dreiser
About one a month ago, I started to reading Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.* Why? Because I loved his The "Genius and reading helps to make bigger number increase of my known words vocabulary**. I have an book e-reader with a built-in dictionary inside; it's very nice when you tap and hold down your finger on an unknown word and in few seconds, the translation is shown. In time, I understood realized that my memory wasn't good and I couldn't keep (all) those words in my mind. It's about 10 ten unknown words per small page. Also, in the novel, there are too many long and sophisticated sentences which that are hard to understand even if you know the translation of the words. Yes, there are idioms. I think maybe I chose the wrong way to improve my own English dictionary(?)? {vocabulary?}*Technically, titles of books are underlined in English composition.
**Or "helps to grow my vocabulary", "increase the amount of vocabulary I know".
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I've read it in Russian too. Yeah it's good practice to write down all unknown words and learn them separately. Thank you and good luck in your doings :)
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First of all I liked "The Genious" too, but I've read it on my language.
I tyhink it's a great oppotunity to improve passive vocabulary of learning language, but you should make it more active. I mean, you just put the word and get the tanslation, but much better is to type it or write.
Also I try to use dictionary rarely to train myself understand the whole contest without knowing of some words.
Also when you translate the unknown word and then meet it for the second or thirdtime, write it down and learn it, use in essays. Because we get so many words from the books, which we'll never use,but our memory isn't well, as you said.
Keep going, man! :)
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