reading book written in english.

[danyboy27]

So i have been reading stuff written in english for a while, but i recently noticed that, if i translate sentence in my native language while reading, i tend to remember it easily.

weird stuff, prehaps since i use french in my everyday life, my brain find it easier to store the information.

[Comrade J]

I've been reading a lot of French websites recently as well as a few documents as I am moving to France, and I find that my knowledge of French is in two categories. One is words I have to translate into English in my head, for instance certain nouns I know the meaning of but rarely hear. The other category is words I sort of 'feel' and don't need to think of the English meaning for. The more you familiarise yourself with English text, danyboy, the less you will find yourself saying the sentence in your head in French; that is at least what I am finding with reading French stuff myself.

Also, why did you thank my first post in my thread in the Français section but then not respond? :lol: I asked you in that thread, guess you didn't check back.

[Smyg]

I don't translate it at all. English has taken over my brain, so to speak.

[scarletghoul]

probably its the act of translation itself that makes you remember it better, just like you remember things better when you write them down (whether or not you read them again)

[danyboy27]

I've been reading a lot of French websites recently as well as a few documents as I am moving to France, and I find that my knowledge of French is in two categories. One is words I have to translate into English in my head, for instance certain nouns I know the meaning of but rarely hear. The other category is words I sort of 'feel' and don't need to think of the English meaning for. The more you familiarise yourself with English text, danyboy, the less you will find yourself saying the sentence in your head in French; that is at least what I am finding with reading French stuff myself.

Also, why did you thank my first post in my thread in the Français section but then not respond? :lol: I asked you in that thread, guess you didn't check back.
well, this forum section is so dead, i thanked you for trying to make it revive from the dead trought your action.