{"id":234,"date":"2006-11-28T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T18:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/learning-by-reading\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T19:17:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T18:17:14","slug":"learning-by-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Learning by reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I came across another interesting language learning method on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-learning-tips.com\/17_Schliemanns_method.htm\">Language learning tips<\/a>, which was used by the 19th-century German archaeologist, Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), who excavated Troy. In order to learn Greek he read a Greek translation of one of his favourite books, and compared the translation word by word and line by line with the original text. This enabled him to learn a lot of vocabulary and grammar in context without having to refer to dictionaries or grammar books all the time. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/links.jstor.org\/sici?sici=0026-7902%28197909%2F10%2963%3A5%2F6%3C273%3AASASSL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1&#038;size=LARGE\">some more information<\/a> about Schliemann&#8217;s language learning methods, which enabled him to acquire eighteen languages quite quickly and successfully.<\/p>\n<p>The reading method would be even better if you had an audiobook version of the translation and\/or a native speaker to help you with pronunciation. Moreover, if you choose a book that includes a lot of colloquial dialogues, you can learn everyday conversational words and phrases as well.<\/p>\n<p>Grammar books and vocabulary lists are useful, but I find that if I discover a grammatical pattern or the meaning of a word on my own, I&#8217;m more likely to remember it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I came across another interesting language learning method on Language learning tips, which was used by the 19th-century German archaeologist, Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), who excavated Troy. In order to learn Greek he read a Greek translation of one of his favourite books, and compared the translation word by word and line by line with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}