What book help improve your English?

[Ruslan]

Hello all. Very interesting forum.
Students what english books did u read? what did u like? what is your favourite author? What authors could you suggest to read?
Moderators what books could you suggest to read for foreign students?

[Olya]

Hello Ruslan. One of my favourite writers is M. Zoshenko . I started to read his stories a few years ago. His stories were revelation for me.
I love to read books of N. Gogol too. My favourite book of N.Gogol
is "Dead souls". This book I can read and re-read again and again. What do you like to read? How do you learn English? Do you learn official language of your country?
Tell us , please
Olya
Sometimes I read stories written by O Genry. I think, but I am not sure, it helps me to learn English.

[Andreana]

Hi Ruslan and Olya, do you read books in English? I sometimes read simple stories in English. It's good when a book is interesting. You want to read and understand what's going on in the story. Real books are much better than English course books with exercises. What do you think?
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[Olya]

Hello Andreana, you are right. Real books are much better than English course books with exercises. But I must say I couldn't read stories in English at all several months ago. I understood nothing. I started to learn grammar of English. It helped me very much. I can share my experience of learning Hebrew. First I learnt grammar. After it I began to understand something. In my opinion ( it is only my opinion) grammar - it is the skeleton of language, and words are its muscles. I must confess I still have very weak skeleton and very very weak muscles. I tell about adult learners (children are something different}
Olya

[Olya]

[Teufelchen53]

Hello Andreana, you are right. Real books are much better than English course books with exercises. But I must say I couldn't read stories in English at all several months ago. I understood nothing. I started to learn grammer of English. It helped me very much. I can share my experience of learning Hebrew. First I learnt grammar. After it I began to understand something. In my opinion (it is only my opinion) grammar - it is the skeleton of language, and words are its muscles. I must confess I still have very weak skeleton and very very weak muscles. I tell about adult learners (children are something different}
Olya

I do not agree with this. I would say the words (vorcabulary) are the skeleton of a language. I cannot understand anything if I do not know a few words and the second thing is the grammer. There are many people who understand me with little mistakes in using the language with the right grammer, but I know the words. So I would say the grammer are the muscles. The muscles makes the skeleton run, don't they?

Best regards

[Olya]

I do not agree with this. I would say the words (vorcabulary) are the skeleton of a language. I cannot understand anything if I do not know a few words and the second thing is the grammar. There are many people who understand me with little mistakes in using the language with the right grammar, but I know the words. So I would say the grammar are the muscles. The muscles makes the skeleton run, don't they?

Best regards

Hello teufelchen53 .Each of us has his own opinion. I told about learning English. I can say : my experience isn't rich. We all are very different learners and our thoughts of learning English are totally different too.
You passed very important test. My congratulations.
Olya