English Audio Request

Detailed reading adapted to your leve:

If you cannot stand to not understand everything, choose your book with care. If you aren't very advanced yet, you will most likely just abandon an unabridged novel after ten pages when you have to look up words every 10 seconds. If an easy reader is what you need, then get an easy reader! Progress will most likely be fast anyway, and after a few easy readers, you can perhaps go ahead and read a full novel and enjoy it. As you read, underline all the words you want to look up, but since these won't be a majority of the words in the text, don't do it straight away. You are supposed to understand what you read anyway, take or give a few nuances. When you finish a page (or half a page), go back to the top and start finding out what those odd words actually meant. Stopping for every word and reaching for the dictionary/the computer will just make it more "study" than "pleasurable reading". You are, after all, first and foremost reading a book, right? It just happens to be written in your target language...

Detailed reading with parallel texts:

If you are reading a parallel text, you have the luxury of already having all the words explained on the opposite side, so you can go well above your current level and still benefit from it with not very much frustration. Also, you do not risk misinterpreting phrases due to different uses of tenses or word order in different languages. Do as above, just read and underline all the things you find interesting. Phrases that you think you may actually use or that you think you ought to recognize, words that just please you, or whatever you wish. After one full page, go back to the top. Work through your underlined words and phrases. Can you remember what they meant? Think before glancing at the translation again, and then write down the translation in the margins.