Today I just stopped by to buy a few English books at the biggest bookstore in this city on the way back home. I directly went up to the 5th floor, where there are many foreign books. Many colorful English books line the shelves. There are a lot of original books which have been made into movies. I thought that I'd like to read one of those, but the book jacket of "The Old Man and The Sea" came up in my mind and I thought twice about getting those. The paperback of "Black Dahlia" seemed to be interesting. Speaking of which, I wonder if I could have read through the whole novel. An extremely high level of reading skill in English is required to enter the top Japanese universities. I read a lot of reviews or essays. I had to translate hard essays of Bertrand russell into Japanese as training for the translation. It was a reading for the sake of passing the university exam. If someone asked me how were the readings, I would answer, without hesitation, that it was not amusing. I'd like to have a great time reading books. I was looking for something good and found a book shown on the photo. This book had what I want to get. Today might be an epoch-making day. This book recommends extensive reading without a dictionary. This book says, "if you don't understand a word, skip it and infer the meaning from the words just before and after that unkonwn word, and read easier books than your level." Next, this book set the first stage of extensive reading to a million words. I decided to try to read a million words in a year. I knew the Penguin Readers, Oxford Bookworms, Macmillan Readers, Cambridge English Readers,,,. Wonderful! These books were categorized by their level. I'll report the contents of each book here. If I stop extensive reading, laugh At Me!
(Vocabulary)
line 並ぶ （胃袋などを）満たす
think twice 〔実行する前に〕熟考する、よく考える 考え直す
Speaking of which, そういえば◆相手の話した全文を受けて
extensive reading 多読
infer 〔見聞きしたことから〕推論［推察・推測］する、察する
(KW: １００万語多読入門)
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