Episode 65 Why You SHOULD Read In English And Tips For How To Make It Easier.🤓

Today, after reading from so many different books, I decided to do a little sales pitch on WHY YOU should read English books. Actually any kind of reading is fine, it doesn't have to be books. I hope this gives you some tips, confidence and ideas to get you started. Don't be scared, don't get frustrated, just take your time and keep it fun. Reasons Why You Should Read English 1. Reading helps your grammar 2. Acquire more vocabulary 3. See dialogue (spoken English) written down 4. Native Speakers break the rules all the time, you can see how in written English Top Tips To Make Reading Easier 1. Go easy on yourself! Start easy. 2. Don't go overboard! Don't read too much all at once. 3. Don't kill your confidence! If it's too hard, stop, move on to something easier. 4. Don't compare yourself to others! Learn at your own pace. Have a great weekend! Let me know what you're reading now, I'm really curious. Additional Vocabulary I know reading isn't everyone's cup of tea - idiom - usually used as a negative - ie something isn't someone's cup of tea, rather than is - this means it isn't something someone prefers or particularly likes. If you really can't be doing with reading - construction: 'you (really) can't be doing with something' - I think this is a British construction that we use when we want to say you really don't like or want something, sometimes we use it when we can't be bothered or don't want to put up with something. Dyslexia - a term that describes a learning difficulty that particularly affects reading and writinghttps://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/dyslexia/about-dyslexia/what-is-dyslexia It's a bit easier to get your head around - idiom - get your head around - to understand Dialogue - the word we use to describe what someone is saying when it's written in a book. It usually has quotes ' or " around it. Colloquialism - words or phrases that are very relaxed and often very local Rigid - something that doesn't move Reductive - used in this case to mean the one word doesn't adequately describe the entire, much more complex situation. We can use it in this way to tell someone they are making something too simple or we can explain that we're making something simpler but we recognise it's very complicated. Just for the look of the thing - another British construction. This time it means when we do something just because of how other people might think or see it, not because we actually want or need it that way. Chicklit - a rather derogatory (but commonly used) term that describes novels written particularly for the female audience. 'Chick' is a term for women and 'lit' is short for literature. Commonly these books will be romances or other novels that are considered specifically 'women's books' and therefore (by the publishing world) not real or important literature. However, even though this is a derogatory term, it is also a commonly used word and does describe a particular kind of book that likely is easier to read than something like Charles Dickens. In this case it's an annoying but useful term. You do not need to read a chapter a day to get your money's worth - a couple of points here. 'Do not' I used the not contracted version here to emphasises that you don't need to do this. 'to et your money's worth' -idiom- to get the most out of something Bored stiff - idiom - really bored or boring