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Do you agree that kjc0123 needs to learn English before attempting to read books written in English?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Reading a definition and understanding a word in context are quite different, especially with written English. kjc0123 already has a good command of English, but needs some help in fine tuning her understanding of the details. Why is that a problem? And I wonder how many of us could actually read a novel in a foreign language with out similar problems.
The meaning of 'apparently' in kjc0123's recent question (which I answered) isn't at all clear - an English-speaking reader would probably skip right over it, but anyone taking the language a word at a time might well wonder why the author doesn't know what the character is thinking, and therefore suspect that she's misunderstood the word.
More broadly - smorodina and woofgang are dead right. Why these questions aimed at deriding individual posters? I'll answer kjc0123's questions if I feel like it. Skids doesn't have to if he/she doesn't. It's a freeish country.
It seems obvious to me that reading a book in a foreign langauge is an excellent way of learning that langauge. Recently I read "Vivo de Zamenhof" ("Life of Zamenhof")in Esperanto (Zamenhof being the man who invented Esperanto). When I started I was looking up in the dictionary about one or two words per line. By the time I got to the end of the book, I was looking up one or two words per page.