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Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:14:29 GMT

yeah through newspaper we definately inprove our eng writting skills

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

Wombat — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:32:50 GMT

"It might sound strange, but reading newspaper and magazine articles is often better practise for your writing than reading novels. Although novels help to instill creativity, the opinion columns of good newspapers expose you to a very varied range of styles."

It's a good advice and I'll keep in mind for the future. I read a lot of novels but I unfortunately don't like read newspaper at all. Sometimes I read the Time or National Geographics witch are slightly difficult to translate than novels: many many new words to look up in the dictionary. But that's learning too...

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

YoHf — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:01:42 GMT

Adomi wrote:
Any suggestions?

What about Italian lessons?

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

Tangled — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:14:48 GMT

If you know language a little bit, and want to improve your knowledge, newspapers -IMHO the great way to do it . I usually read bbc

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

Hoor AL-Ain — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:20:18 GMT

Thanks for this advise .. I will try Inshallah

Regards,

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

Bystander — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 05:24:28 GMT

I think all languages r the same,when u use them frequently,u will see some improvement.

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

adomi — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:19:25 GMT

Any suggestions?

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

YoHf — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:22:06 GMT

Just find a better way to do it.

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

Steven Mc — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:53:36 GMT

YoHf wrote:
Adomi wrote:

I guess what YoHf meant is, you can't just rely on reading(whatever reading material it is) to "learn" any language. But I think the topic is about "Improving the writing skills" which means you already have some knowledge of the language.

By the way YoHf you seem very certain of what you say...can you tell us why before everybody loses hope of learning Italian one day?. Your words are quite daunting believe me.

I meant exactly what I said. You can't learn to speak or write in Italian by reading Italian newspapers. I myself am not able to understand the meaning of most of the sentences in there and, if you want to learn grammar, forget them.

OMG After reading your post, i may have to give up my intention of learning Italian.

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

YoHf — Thu, 11 May 2006 21:13:04 GMT

Adomi wrote:

I guess what YoHf meant is, you can't just rely on reading(whatever reading material it is) to "learn" any language. But I think the topic is about "Improving the writing skills" which means you already have some knowledge of the language.

By the way YoHf you seem very certain of what you say...can you tell us why before everybody loses hope of learning Italian one day?. Your words are quite daunting believe me.

I meant exactly what I said. You can't learn to speak or write in Italian by reading Italian newspapers. I myself am not able to understand the meaning of most of the sentences in there and, if you want to learn grammar, forget them.

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

rishonly — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:54:47 GMT

Ttkingdom wrote:
I think it's better to read long, discussing articles rather just short news through newsletter or RSS. If you subscribed to an magazine, be sure to check its online archive (the Time Archive is very good). However, e-reading will never be as good as the old things, paper books and magazine.

Welcome to Englishforums, Ttkingdom. Yes, some of us are still interested in traditional printed books rather than e-books.

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

Ttkingdom — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:54:26 GMT

I think it's better to read long, discussing articles rather just short news through newsletter or RSS.
If you subscribed to an magazine, be sure to check its online archive (the Time Archive is very good).
However, e-reading will never be as good as the old things, paper books and magazine.

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

adomi — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:46:45 GMT

SMBS wrote:

YoHf wrote:
Well, that can be true for English... Try to learn Italian by reading a newspaper...

Is it that hard ?

I guess what YoHf meant is, you can't just rely on reading(whatever reading material it is) to "learn" any language. But I think the topic is about "Improving the writing skills" which means you already have some knowledge of the language.

By the way YoHf you seem very certain of what you say...can you tell us why before everybody loses hope of learning Italian one day?. Your words are quite daunting believe me.

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

SMBS — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:09:43 GMT

YoHf wrote:
Well, that can be true for English... Try to learn Italian by reading a newspaper...

Is it that hard ?

Re: Improve your Writing Skills by Reading Newspapers

YoHf — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:37:50 GMT

Well, that can be true for English... Try to learn Italian by reading a newspaper...