朝ご飯何を食べますか？

朝ご飯はとても大事です。ある時、寝すぎたために　寝過ごしてしまい、私は朝ご飯を抜いて空腹のまま会社に行ったことがあります。この日は午前中に、集中力が出なくて、仕事が捗らなかった。11時半まで、お腹が空いてたまらない。朝ご飯を抜くと、体が重くだるさや疲労感が残って元気が出ません。だから、毎朝朝ご飯をきちんと食べることにしようと思っています。

朝ご飯を　と言えば、選択肢が多いです。昔私は毎朝早く起きて、飯を炊く習慣がありますした。（or 私は以前よく、毎朝早く起きてご飯を炊いていました。I used to get up to cook rice every early morning.）昨日の残り物が有ったら、完璧です。または、飯とヌクマムだけでも美味しかったです。飯とヌクマムを食べると、子供の時代 頃が懐かしい。その時、貧乏だったら、毎朝母親が炊いてくれた飯とヌクマムを美味しく食べました。 

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その時、貧乏だったら、毎朝母親が炊いてくれた飯とヌクマムを美味しく食べました。

Do you mean this that "At that time, we were so poor that we enjoyed rice coocked my mother with nuoc mom every morning." or "We used to enjoy rice coocked by my mother and nuoc mom every morning at the day when we were poor."?
In the former case, I would say that "当時は貧しかったので、毎朝母が焚いてくれたご飯とニョクマムを美味しく食べていました。（食べていたものです）", and in the latter case, I would say that "当時貧しい時は（お金の無い時は）、毎朝お母さんが焚いたご飯とニョクマムを美味しく食べました。

I wondered you wanted to express that you were poor "all the time" or "sometimes" when you were young. I think,　the expression is defferent depending on it.

Hi David.

1) books

In Japan there are many English vocabulary books for learners.

Thankfully, such books contents depend on the learner's goal or ability.

As you know, there are several kinds of exam for English, for example for TOEIC,

TOEFL, IELTS, EIKEN or university entrance exam.

Many of them are published for some kinds of levels or classes.

So I have chosed which level's textbook to learn accoding to my English level.

I hope those who learn Japanese language have the same circumstance.

2)online dictionary

Do you use Eijiro?

<a href="http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=how+to+study">http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=how+to+study</a>

When I learn a new word, I check it here how to use it with example sentence.

You can look in the dictionary in both of Japanese and English.

You can set Japanese words or sentenses with hiragana, probably.

I often realize I can expand my vocablary in this dictionary.

I'm sorry those ways I introduced to you are not so special to learn.

スター・トレック

私は先週に、現物の原作のスター・トレックを見始めましたる初めます。何が起こっているかを見るわかるためにそれを見て必要はありません。それはいいバックグラウンドノイズ環境ビデオです。

”初め”　and "始め" sound the same as "hajime".  But the meaning of kanji are different.

"初め" is used for the meaning in a situattion like  "for the first time" or "in the beggining of ...".

"始め” is used in case of "start something".

I knew the word "background noise" and Japanese don't use it in Japanese even by katakana.

I guess you would like to use it like "bacground music".  If so, there is a word "環境ビデオ(kankyo video)" in Japanese.  But actually we rarely use it in our daily life. 
I tried to keep your original text when I corrected it.  But if I said it in my way, I would say as "BGMみたいなものです。(it's almost like a BGM.)"
BGM is a word for music, but I won't use the word related "video" or "noise".

I hope that anyone could help you in a better way.

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I started watching the original Star Trek last week. I don't necessarily have to see it to understand what's happening. It's good background noise.