Being "only" bilingual (I have forgotten virtually all of the Spanish I took age 11-14 as I was largely absent from class during those years), I have long looked at expanding my horizons - I'm interested mainly in reading foreign languages, and only secondarily in speaking or writing them. I have a number of them on my bucket list, but above all else I've long wanted to become fluent in reading German; both because there are many things I'd like to read in German (fiction, scholarly work, news...), and because it's similar enough to Swedish and I've been exposed to it enough that I'm about "semi-literate".
But it's a language with intricate grammar - my approach of firing up, say, Der Spiegel and painstakingly making my way through an article is probably not super efficient. On the other hand, I can find almost no books that serve to help with reading and comprehending grammar and written context; almost all focus on speaking and writing, which are very different things from reading (and which is supposedly considerably easier to learn). I really don't feel like I have the time to wade through standard texts imploring you to parrot simple sentence after simple sentence if there are more efficient ways.
Being that many scholarly areas requires people to be reading literate in a multitude of languages, German being a common one among them, I figure there has to be a standard approach to this, but I have been unable to track much down.
Does anyone have experience with this?
But it's a language with intricate grammar - my approach of firing up, say, Der Spiegel and painstakingly making my way through an article is probably not super efficient. On the other hand, I can find almost no books that serve to help with reading and comprehending grammar and written context; almost all focus on speaking and writing, which are very different things from reading (and which is supposedly considerably easier to learn). I really don't feel like I have the time to wade through standard texts imploring you to parrot simple sentence after simple sentence if there are more efficient ways.
Being that many scholarly areas requires people to be reading literate in a multitude of languages, German being a common one among them, I figure there has to be a standard approach to this, but I have been unable to track much down.
Does anyone have experience with this?
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