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[helmikuu.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone, just joined. Anyways i know some of you here have taught your selves to speak read write in anouther language, tell me....would you say it's more natuaral for some people to teach them selves than others?

I tought myself how to read and speak in russian, and it took about six months for me to actaully read fluently in russian, even though i don't understand most of it

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[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Agreed: to be able to quickly put together sounds, according to the letters that represent those sounds, does not mean READING yet. You can READ when you understand what the WORDS mean, at least some of them. I can pronounce Italian words very quickly while I look at an Italian text, but this does not mean that I can READ Italian: the level of what I UNDERSTAND is almost zero.