you want to write well, if you want to have a great English vocabulary, if you want to
have great English grammar you need to read and read and read. And what you need
to read are novels. Novels are the key, easy novels.
So here’s my rule. What does easy mean for you? My rule is you should not need a
dictionary to read the book. So if you grab a, let’s say you grab a book by
Stephen King, kind of a famous writer in the United States. You get a Stephen King
book, in English of course, and you start reading it but, oh, there’s so many words you
don’t know. And you need a dictionary. You get your dictionary and you’re looking up
all these words. Well, it’s too difficult for you. If you need a dictionary to understand it,
it’s too difficult. Okay, so, you know, put it aside and wait. You can read it later when
your reading skills are higher. But for now find an easier book.
I recommend children’s novels. I think they are a fantastic way to learn. You can get
the Goosebumps books for example. There’s a whole series. They’re for kids. They’re
called Goosebumps. And there’s, I don’t know how many, there’s probably 30 or 50 of
them, okay? They’re short and they’re pretty easy. You can probably read them without
a dictionary. What you should do is read all of them. Read all 30 of them. Read them,
just enjoy them. Don’t use a dictionary. If you see a word you don’t know, just guess
the meaning and keep reading. If you’re wrong, it doesn’t matter. You’ll see that word
again and again and again. Eventually you will understand that word. You won’t need a
dictionary. Just enjoy the story.
Another set of books I like are The Hardy Boys books. These are so old I read them
when I was a kid. And there’s another series of books called Nancy Drew. So The
Hardy Boys books and the Nancy Drew books, another set of kids books, kids novels,
they’re fairly long but not too long, that are really great if you want to do a lot of pleasure
reading that does not require a dictionary. So again, Nancy Drew books and The Hardy
Boys books, and again, there are so many of them, 20, 30 or more in each series. You
can read the whole series if you want to. And of course you can just go to any
bookstore that has English books.
Look in the children’s section or the young adults’ section. Another series of books I like
are by Roald Dahl, I think Dahl is D-a-h-l, if I’m right. Anyway, he wrote books such a
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach. He’s got a lot of books
so you could look for some of those. And, of course, there are movies that go with
those books so you could watch the movies, too, and listen to them. You can also get
audiobooks. This is something I think is really great. If you can find an audiobook and
a regular book you can read it and then you can listen to it at the same time. And again,
using children’s novels.
So read a lot of children’s novels. And after you finish all The Hardy Boys books and
after you finish all the Goosebumps books, then find a book maybe by Stephen King.
OR maybe if that’s still too difficult, then find something for young adults. And then read
a lot of those books. Eventually, probably within one year’s time if you’re reading all the
time, if you’re reading every day, within one year you’ll be reading adult novels. You’ll
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