Read 100 Books in a Foreign Language!

Why you should read 100 books in your target language. You should do it, because it's like the German physicists said... if you look closzlee zer sind smaller particles inszide...

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If you've reached the end of the description then you might want to go and read a book in your foreign language, but first, tell me, what is the piece of music I used in this video?

[JustinArmstrongsite]

As you get better and better at reading, at one point a switch flips and you start comparing yourself to native speakers. Turns out native speakers, even ones that don't read very much, are extremely good at their language. As your standards rise, you realize how much language you still have to learn.

[christinakatharina]

I read a few pages in my target language every day, because I'm not fluent enough yet to read a whole book at once. But I have noticed that my reading improves very fast. I'm happy that I can understand a lot of things and it is so much fun.

[emmiewilliams]

I've been studying French for two years and I'm intermediate 1. Some days I feel like lm still at basic. Learn to control the screaming and soul crushing self criticism. 👍

[radurte]

I was quite invested on your bit about the atom's weight, you should do a whole video on that. With the accent, please.

[fancywrong]

"there sind smaller particles inside" Made mein Tag.

[silmaril]

For me, language learning looks like a curve with a steep rise and then it flattens off to an almost horizontal slope. You can be fluent at a C1/C2 level and there will ALWAYS be small things you can pick up, sometimes tiny things. And reading is one of the best ways to be exposed to them imo. My personal goal is not "100 books in X language", my goal is "I don't even remember how many books I've read in X language". That point where reading, writing ecc. in that language becomes as "normal" as in your mother tongue :)
"the road goes ever on and on"

[jbiden]

I've never been this early lol. I LOVE your videos. Im currently reading my first german book! Thank you for making this videos they are very encouraging!

[petrosstefanidis]

man just reading the title fills me with joy! Congratulations :) You inspire us.

[yourfirstsecondlanguage]

Your German accent is priceless haha! Yes so true, and you’ve helped me come to the conclusion that I needed to stop juggling languages if I want to become truly fluent in any of them

[Stephanie-gvrh]

Very true. The more you read the more subtleties and nuances you will discover.

[MelissaJetzt]

As a former theoretical physics research student learning German, your thumbnail worked. 👍🏻

[israellai]

I was going to go back to the first one, but then you told me to, and I'm feeling rebellious

[_Astrogirl_]

I am so happy for you!
I have a goal to read a hard manga in Japanese called gintama.❤️😁👍

[bofbob]

Reminds me of a passage in ZMM where he talks about a student who didn't know what to write for an assignment. So he starts by telling the kid to write about his town. Doesn't really work. Then he tells him to write about a specific street in his town. Works a little better, but still not great. Anyway, it goes on and on until he narrows it down to one single brick of a specific building on a specific street of that specific town, and there the student finds that he has so much to write that he just can't stop. "If you look closzlee ..." ^^

[sharonoddlyenough]

It's the corollary to the dunning-kruger effect. Once you know a lot about something, you become aware of how much you still need to know.

[theswedishpolyglot]

It’s funny, I was just setting up some ”activity standards” to strive for when learning foreign languages. Part of that standard I thought would be 50-100 books [500-1000 hours of reading depending on the language]. I googled ”100 books in foreign language goal” and your video showed up Lamont :D I am at 40 books in German and Spanish at the moment, going through 2 books per week at +98 % comprehension (mostly listening at 1.5x speed to Audible audiobooks). Haven’t decided if I want to move to other languages after 50 and do the same thing [PT, FR, IT, NL] or go straight to 100 in German (after all I already own +100 audiobooks through Audible xD). I recently bought all 20 Game of Thrones audiobooks in German to listen through, a little bit inspired by your old GoT immersion video hehe

[ΝίκοςΓιαννόπουλος-λθ]

Physics undergrad here, nice skech there. You got me scratching my head on the underlying message :-)
On an another note, would a word count goal be more "natural" than a number of books goal?
Glad to hear your thoughts on that one

[AlinefromToulouse]

Just at the right time for me!
I just got a book with stories, thus fiction, but made for beginners: I supposed it is possible to start reading at a small A1 level, without any 'comprehensible input' as the native language is different in my case.

[nagiii]

this channel is so painfully underrated

[eliasmartinsson]

How do you treat words/expressions you don't know when you read? Do you try to figure them out by context to keep the reading flow going, or do you write them down/check them up immediately?