billydeeuk is planning on living forever. So far, so good!
How I did it: Using Penguins "Parallel Text" book series, I worked my way through a series of short stories written by Italian authors. As the name suggests, the stories would be written in Italian, with the English translation on the corresponding page.I found this a great way of achieving my goal as, being short stories, they were easy to digest and, as the English translation was on the next page, I was able to pick up new vocabulary … Read how I did it…
How I did it: I learned German for 2 years at uni and during this time we were supposed to read German novels as part of the course but I normally read the English translation as I felt that my German was not at the appropriate level. However I then realised the only way to get it to the appropriate level is to just read and practice. So my advice would be stop makin excuses to yourself and just do it! Start with children's books and work your way up. Read how I did it…
How I did it: Well, I wasn't very good at english but then i started watching TV shows in English and to pay attention to lyrics when a song was in english . Then my sister bought the 1st Harry Potter in english and I just started to read it . To be honest it was kind of hard in the beginning so I gave up but my english teacher asked once to pick a book in english and to read it . I picked Twilight because i really wanted to read it since a long time .… Read how I did it…
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How I did it: The first book I read in English was, I think, the 6th book of the Harry Potter series. I had already read it in French so I knew the story. I quickly got used to specific words like hogwards, wand, neville longbottom ... From then, I never stopped reading in English:- The Notebook- A walk to remember- Harry Potter 1,3 4, 6, 7- The Twilight series- The 5 first books of Gossip Girl- ... Read how I did it…
