Here, we'd like to share with you some practical advices gathered from other successful foreign language students. Best of luck!

Reading Spanish

• I read aloud what I learned in the class from my textbook. I was reading it so many times and I ended up memorizing it. I listened to the right example from the textbook's CD so it helped me to have correct accent when I talk.
• Knowing grammar is really helpful when you analyze a sentence. If I don't understand by reading it once, I read it again in bits and pieces referring to my grammar knowledge. I can understand most of sentences like that way.
• Recently, my hobby has become reading novels, magazines and newspapers in Spanish.
• I read lots of websites and magazine articles of my interests out side of my Spanish class. That way I feel like I can understand Spanish so much more.
• If I find unknown a word when I read, I keep reading anyways. If I still don't understand what the word means in the end, and that word comes out many times, then, I use my dictionary.
• I read more than one book for each week.
• Every month, I read 2 to 3 books in Spanish. Paperbacks, magazines, I read all the kinds.
• I could've read so much in the field of my interests but I couldn't stand reading the books from other fields.
• I think reading lots of books from my areas of interest helped me so much.
• I didn't use dictionary right away to look up a word. I just underlined it and looked it up only when it came up repeatedly.
• I didn't look up an unknown word if it didn't cause a problem of understanding the general idea of the reading.
• I used to look up a word that only came up repeatedly with a Spanish-Spanish dictionary.
• When you find a difficult sentence, you need to analyze it and understand it well. If you keep on skipping them, you'll never improve your reading ability.
• In order to grow your reading comprehension, you have to learn to read quickly to understand the main point and learn to read with accuracy.
• The secret to success was to read high level Spanish materials every week. Of course I wasn't translating the reading materials when I read them. I tried to read them and understand them in the original Spanish.