“I have found that reading challenging texts aloud has helped me improve my writing, reading, listening, and speaking skills. Some people may mock me for it, but I’ve discovered that it enhances my active vocabulary more quickly than any other method I’ve tried on my own.”
I’ve made some revisions so that English speakers can better understand your text.
For me it was Bad Religion lyrics.
13 year old me would sit down in front of the CD player, booklet in one hand, dictionary in the other.
Greg Graffin uses an obscene amount of vocabulary that I haven’t encountered anywhere else.
One example:
The masses are obsequious, contented in their sleep.
The vortex of their minds ensconced within the murky deep
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“I have found that reading challenging texts aloud has helped me improve my writing, reading, listening, and speaking skills. Some people may mock me for it, but I’ve discovered that it enhances my active vocabulary more quickly than any other method I’ve tried on my own.”
I’ve made some revisions so that English speakers can better understand your text.
Totally unnecessary, and bizarrely patronising.
If anybody was struggling to understand that comment then they are not an English speaker…
He’s not looking to be published, he’s just trying to communicate, and doing so very effectively.
Pls elaborate, what types of challenging texts, some examples pls.
For me it was Bad Religion lyrics. 13 year old me would sit down in front of the CD player, booklet in one hand, dictionary in the other. Greg Graffin uses an obscene amount of vocabulary that I haven’t encountered anywhere else.
One example:
The masses are obsequious, contented in their sleep. The vortex of their minds ensconced within the murky deep
Yeah, insane. And he sings those lines so easily like it was just basic stuff.
I bet you would like Aesop Rock
https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html
Try The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It’s pretty cool and has some very complex sentences