I recently read Kató Lomb's Polyglot book and have started to integrate a lot of reading into my language learning. In particular enjoyable book genres that I would read in English, but are from Spanish speaking authors. Though I am not quite sure how to best implement her method into my language learning strategy. My largest gripe with the book, and it is possible I missed it, but I felt like she did not really go over her method in much detail.
I wanted to see if anyone found a reading method that worked really well for them that was inspired from this. I am doing a lot of passive reading and try to intuit meaning of unknown words from context (as was suggested in the book). However, I will pick a chapter once a day (I am usually reading a couple chapters a day) and write down all the words (in the sentence context) in a notebook and then write the translations on the other page, so that I can review them. I use Anki normally, so I might turn them into flashcards as well. Though it is still too early into this approach to know if what I am doing is helpful for me.
I understand that just through the act of reading a lot I will intuit grammatical rules and learn new vocabulary, but I don't know if I can squeeze some extra juice out of this proverbial lemon.
Things I am not doing when I am just passively reading and not on a chapter that I am writing everything down on:
- Stopping to look up words I don't know. I will if the word shows up a lot and I still haven't quite figured it out.
- Rereading the chapter that I took the time to look everything that I was confused about up.
I would love to hear some critiques, ideas, and/or if I am stupid and did not see the part where Kató explains her method! Thanks everybody.
FYI: I have not taken a CEFR exam, but I would say that I am a high B1.
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