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دكتر محمدرضا باطنی
Welcome to the English for Everybody library! Reading is the perfect way to improve your vocabulary and understanding of English usage. We have four stories for you to choose from. Each has three levels:
Understanding spoken English is difficult for beginners. If you want to listen to TV programs and movies, you need to know many English words (and their pronunciation). If your vocabulary is poor, you will never understand natural spoken English. Often, you will not even know where one word ends, and the other begins. Everything may sound like one long, strange word. If you're talking to a person, they will probably repeat and explain things to you. But this is a special situation. Nobody will explain anything to you if you're watching TV or listening to a presentation. In general, understanding spoken English is hard. Listening to English is much more difficult than reading. Of course, you need a good vocabulary to understand written English, too. But reading is still easier than listening, because of these differences:
An exampleListen to this mp3 recording of Tim Berners-Lee talking about the new technology for the Web. (Tim Berners-Lee is the person who created the World Wide Web.) Now try to write down all the words that you don't know. Then look them up in a dictionary. If you can't do it, it's because:
Now you can read the text of what Tim Berners-Lee said. Look how easy it is to write down and look up all the difficult words. They are simply there, you can read them as many times as you want, and you know their spelling. The conclusion: you can't do without reading. Listening is great — for example, watching movies in English helps you to learn slang vocabulary, pronunciation, and intonation. But if you are a beginner, you simply can't understand natural spoken English. Reading is the best way to learn a lot of English words. Only after you have learned a large vocabulary can you try to understand natural spoken language.
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