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hey everyone welcome to the monthly

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review the monthly show on language

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where you discover new learning

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how to read the fast and easy way with

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extensive reading

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is Reading in your target language hard

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for you do you have to stop and look up

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words every other second if so then

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you're probably avoiding reading because

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it can be hard when you're going about

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it the wrong way and it's a shame

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because reading improves your language

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overall and by avoiding it you're

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slowing down your own progress luckily

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there is an easy way to master reading

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even if you're a beginner and even if

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you've struggled before and today you'll

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discover two things you need to make

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reading easy all about the extensive

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reading learning strategy and six ways

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to practice reading with our program

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but first if you're looking for new free

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language resources and downloads here

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are this month's new lessons and

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resources be sure to download these now

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before we take them down in a few days

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first the learning to cook conversation

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cheat sheet learn all the must-know

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cooking phrases with this new cheat

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sheet download it for free right now

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second the most common adjectives PDF

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ebook you'll Master over 90 common

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adjectives with this bonus PDF picture

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ebook you can download and review it on

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any device Third how to talk about your

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weekend if you can't talk about your

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weekend plans then this one minute

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lesson will get you speaking you'll

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learn the must-know phrases like sleep

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hang out with friends play video games

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and much more fourth how to count from

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zero to one hundred do you know how to

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count from 1 to 10 how about to 100 this

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quick word list will get you mastering

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numbers in just a minute

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fifth the 50 most common verbs all

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beginners must know do you know all of

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these verbs if not this lesson will

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drill the 50 most common verbs into your

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head just use the free audio slideshow

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to get your free resources click the

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they're yours to keep forever okay let's

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jump into today's topic

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how to read the fast and easy way with

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extensive reading

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you've probably Tried reading a book in

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your target language before maybe you

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bought a book and thought you could

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learn from it and chances are it's now

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sitting on a shelf what happened most

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likely there were too many words you

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didn't know you had to stop and look

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each one up and you gave up reading in a

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new language can be tough if you

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approach it the wrong way

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but it's a powerful skill that you

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shouldn't ignore because reading spills

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into other areas as well you'll learn

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words and grammar patterns much easier

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through Reading than anything else and

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this will improve your speaking skills

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as well

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also reading is something you can do

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without a teacher on your own time and

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on your own terms which makes it an easy

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skill to practice so how can you make it

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easier there are two tricks to making

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reading easier

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first the two things you need to make

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reading easy

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first you need level appropriate reading

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material the books you struggled with

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were likely not for your level and if

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you had something for your level you

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wouldn't need a dictionary every five

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seconds where can you get level

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appropriate reading material just look

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for our extensive reading books on the

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site

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and by the way extensive reading is a

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learning strategy where you read as many

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level appropriate books as possible skip

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over words you don't know and keep on

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reading the goal here is quantity you

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improve because of all the books you go

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through and these books are super simple

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at the beginner levels just a line or

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two per page and if this sounds like a

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book for elementary school kids then

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you're right if you're brand new to

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reading then that's your level at

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intermediate and advanced levels they're

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much more complex with stories and many

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words on the pages

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but if you're brand new and if you've

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just learned the alphabet then the

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absolute beginner ones are perfect for

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you now what about the second trick the

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second trick is you need to use text and

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audio at the same time why so you can

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listen and follow along you know how to

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pronounce every word and on your second

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read through you'll be able to read it

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all without the audio because you've

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already heard the words the good news is

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all of our reading lessons on our site

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give you the text and audio so you can

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easily read follow along and hear the

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pronunciation so now that you know the

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two tricks you still have to implement

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them right well here's how

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part two six ways to practice reading

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with our program

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remember you need two things one level

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appropriate reading material and two a

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combination of text and audio so you can

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listen and follow along you get that

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with all of our lessons on the site

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including our extensive reading books so

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the first way to improve your reading is

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read the extensive reading books that

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are appropriate for your level you'll

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find them in your lesson Library we have

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books for all levels absolute beginner

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beginner intermediate and advanced the

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goal of extensive reading is to read as

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much as possible skip words you don't

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know and keep going to make it even

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easier these books come with audio and

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line by line breakdown and translations

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so you can follow along with the audio

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and never miss a word by the way you can

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print these books out so you can keep

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them and review them at any time

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the second way is read the line by line

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dialogues for every lesson you take the

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line by line dialogue is just a

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breakdown of the lesson conversation

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where you get the translation

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transliteration and audio for each of

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the lines with this tool you can just

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read the text or combine text and audio

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and listen and follow along

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the Third Way is print out the lesson

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notes and review the lesson dialogue

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having the printed physical material is

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a lot easier than logging in and looking

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for the notes for a certain lesson but

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you can always read the lesson notes on

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the site too the fourth way to practice

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reading is if you're learning a language

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that requires romanization like Japanese

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Hebrew or Korean and if you're a lower

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level then read the romanized version

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yes it's a bit of a crutch but you can

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easily see how the words are written and

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pronounced then switch over to the

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target language and re-read you can do

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this with all of our lessons with the

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dialogue tool the fifth way ask your

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Premium Plus teacher for reading

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assignments and you'll get these weekly

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one helpful trick is to record yourself

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reading out loud and send that to your

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teacher they'll correct your

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pronunciation and provide feedback

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the sixth way is the most important one

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and will give you the biggest bang for

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your buck the sixth tactic is reread

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again and again whether you're using our

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extensive reading books the dialogue or

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anything else reading once is not enough

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coming back to reread is how you start

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reading faster it's how you remember all

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those words for good and it's how you

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start understanding Everything At a

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Glance so go ahead and visit our site

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and look for the extensive reading books

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you can access them for free with a free

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watching this episode of monthly review

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next time we'll talk about how to speak

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more with your personal language

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