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    Why The Way We Read Sucks and How to Fix It: Part 2

    October 31, 2009
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    Why The Way We Read Sucks and How to Fix It: Part 2

    At the risk of stating the obvious, this post continues right where its predecessor left off. I enjoyed the mixed reaction to that previous post…it looks like maybe people who went through some flavour of the British school system have experiences closer to mine. Or, this may all just be a personal problem that I’ve overgeneralized. We’ll just have...

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    Why The Way We Read Sucks, And How To Fix It: Part 1

    October 29, 2009
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    There’s so much I want to say on this topic. But it would take too long to put it all together, so I’m going to do what we always do here at AJATT — give it to you piecemeal. As with everything on this site, the advice here is just based on my personal experience. I’m not an expert....

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    How To Really Make the Transition to Monolingual Dictionaries

    July 16, 2008
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    I know I’ve written on this topic before. FORGET WHAT I SAID. That explanation sucked; it was far too complicated. Just do this. This is all you need to do to smoothly make the transition to monolingual dictionaries. Are you ready? OK. Here it comes: Look up definitions of words you already know. You heard me. LOOK UP WORDS...

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