Additionally, you can highlight and make notes quite easily in the app. In fact, the majority of books I have read have been in print, until I had to give up my book collection…TWICE! Then I began to see why an e-reader might be useful.įor starters, as you are reading, when you come across unknown words, you have a built-in dictionary to look up the unknown words, the Kindle for Android App will also search your word on Wikipedia, and there’s a translator option for many languages. And yes I know some of you out there are already frowning about how you love “real” books, the feel of the pages, the weight of the book – I get it. My recommendation for reading novels in English is to use an E-Reader like Amazon’s Kindle, or Kindle Reader app for mobile phones. Let’s check out a graphic of how the two styles benefit you: Immersive reading then is when you both read and listen to the same text, at the same time. People speak the language to you, to each other on the streets, you see the signs and billboards, you hear it on the radio and on the television. When you go and live in another country where you are totally immersed in the language, it is all around you. We often use it to describe foreigners being immersed in another language or culture. The word immersive means that you are completely engaged from all sides in some activity. The technique is called immersive reading and in this post I’m going to show you what it is, how it works, and why you want to take advantage of it to practice your English everyday. ![]() ![]() ![]() Typically, we think of reading and listening as mutually exclusive (meaning you can do one, or the other, but not both) activities, however newer content and technology is changing that belief. ![]() I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language in Poland for more than 14 years now and one of the many questions that my students always ask me is “How do you get more practice studying English everyday outside the classroom?” Two ideas that always come up during the discussion are reading books and listening to things such as news, podcasts, or audiobooks.
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