linguoboy wrote:Linguaphile wrote:With that type of reading, I almost always try to gain some background knowledge about it by reading in English on the same topic before reading about it in a language I know less well. For one thing, for the types of words you're talking about, often even in English when writing about it they'll use the native words, so you'll learn them. And then of course it helps to have the background knowledge even when that isn't the case.
He lulled me into a false complacency by not going into details for the first 100+ pages of the novel
LOL