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The 5 finger rule.
What do you think about this?
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that is why I love the dictionary on the Kindle app and iBooks (the only two I use)
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Sounds like a wonderful way to know you need to open a dictionary and dig in.
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I think if we obey this nonsense rule we skip the most awesome books.
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How would I ever expand my vocabulary if I only read books that contained only the words that I know?
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What if the book opens with quotation in a language you can't speak? Like Elvish?
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I can usually figure out the meaning of words by context, and it doesn't matter how the words are pronounced. One trait readers often have is they know the meaning of a lot of words that they don't know how to pronounce.
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You have got to be kidding! That hasn't happened since I was in high school, or since I read the last William F. Buckley book.
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English is a foreign language to me, if you haven't guessed by now. Although it seems that I have more difficulty talking in german any more. When I have to I feel like a stuttering idiot. |
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I love to use the dictionnary for words I don't know and since my native language is French and I almost only read books written in English it helps me expand my vocabulary
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Stop "fingering" all around here.
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I thought someone was insulting my typing skills ........
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I also don't approve to this rule to a certain extent.
English is not my mother tongue, so I have some experiences in reading books in a foreign language. When you are a beginner and just started to learn the language, you have to improve step by step. So maybe for this situation you can apply this rule, however in my opinion after you reached a certain level and you feel rather confident in your language skills, you should go beyond that 5 finger rule. From my experiences every author has its own way of writing and so his own prefered vocabulary. Whenever I switch an author, it can be "difficult", but you can get used to it rather quickly. |
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