What book do you use to learn languages?

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What book do you use to learn languages​​?

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With regards the English language, I use grammar and vocabulary books.

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Just a small thing, it’s ‘with regards to’ :slight_smile:

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Currently any enjoyable novel I can get my hands on. I’m currently working through el hombre en el laberinto by Robert Silverberg.

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Yeap, you are right, thanks for correcting me. Therefore we should access Skype, forums for improving our spoken and written skills!

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Read and listen and insist

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I read monolingual dictionaries. Longman DCE, Le Petit Robert, …

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I like some novels, specially the ones that are true stories (or based on true stories), the last one I’ve read was “Coming Clean” from Kimberly Rae Miller. I also like history books, specially about prehistoric history.

Some books about brain and/or behavior also gets my curiosity. Also books about memory, attention, how the brain works, things like that.

And finally books about language learning, it’s another subject from what I like to read about, although I have been watching videos and listening audiobooks or articles more than reading for this kind of subject.

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To start learning a new language I use a work and excercise book with added audioCD for beginners. After this basic work, in order to get used a little bit to the language and to get more variety and a wider spread of everyday vocabulary, I read some books for children and then go on with some comics. The result is perfect because this gives you a lot of motivation and the certainty of success to be able to read books in your the target language.
From this time language learning becomes much more interesting and easier!:slight_smile:

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“And finally books about language learning, it’s another subject from what I like to read about, although I have been watching videos and listening audiobooks or articles more than reading for this kind of subject.” I love this topic too and it would be great to read about it also in other languages, not only English.

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I start out with Assimil. As soon as I can, I start reading children’s books in my target language. Then, when I feel more comfortable with the language, or when the children’s book run ou :wink: t, I start out on novels. I don’t think this will work for every language, but for now, it seems to work quite well.

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I also have made good experience with Assimil. Some years ago I tried to learn Portuguese and it worked quiet well. After two weeks I felt able to comunicate a bit. Honestly I have to say that I used also some Spanish words and the result was quiet an interesting mix.