In order to absorb hundreds
of words a day:
Don't
try straight away to read both languages at once. Read through
and listen to the second language version several times to assimilate
the vocabulary in the bilingual story you have chosen:
This
way you will train your ear to hear the sounds of the language while
simultaneously familiarising yourself with the spelling.
Like
this you will immediately understand what you hear, whatever the
language. Since you do not see the original text but only
hear it, you will train your aural comprehension. You will
also learn oral vocabulary. Next page |