How to learn Chinese by reading novels
Hi! I'm Alex, co-founder of Readly. One of my favourite ways to learn languages is by reading novels, and in this blog I'm going to walk you through my learning strategy step by step.
As a Brit who only started learning Chinese in my 20s, I was able to take grad school classes fully taught in Chinese after only a few years, so reading novels is definitely a useful strategy! (Tsinghua uni, data science).
My specific learning strategy:
Buy a book you genuinely want to read. If you aren't genuinely interested in the book, you will lose motivation. You can find book inspiration in my article here.
Once you finish a chapter, re-read it quickly without any tools. Then move to the next chapter.
If you want listening practice, you can listen to the text in Readly too. Personally, I'll listen to a text 5+ times until I can easily understand it.
Usually the first few chapters of a book will be difficult and slow, but once you learn the core vocabulary the author likes to use, it becomes much easier!
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