do you have any problem of reading english novel ?

feiyuyitiao

          I have read several english novel, to be honest, The purpose to reading those books not only for learing english but to give me a new way to research anyother culture. the problem is I am not so enjoy at reading to compare with reading chinese writings. for example,  the human name and place name metioned was so elusive and meaningless to me ...farther more,I can hardly find the story like struggle for leaving, learning, hard working and other sorts of social problem taking place in China. do you feel the same way? how about your opinion?

redapple2

Well, I have tried to read English novel. Only fairy tales or other books which fit in with my current English level. I've been told that reading English novel is one of the best ways to improve your understanding toward western culture and your writing skill. So I resort to do it, but things didn't go well. A lack of vacaburary and right thinking pattern make us at disadvantage. Hence, I consider you can change another way to read it.

lindsay0306

Do you have some good book to recommand?I have some trouble on reading novel too,there are so many words I don't understand,it effects the reading quality.

bigcat

the main reason is the new word,very confused.

hyperborean

I've just finished Dan Brown's Digital Fortress. The plot is ingeniously devised, but the part concerning cryptography is a little obsolete. None the less, it is still a good novel to recommend.
In my humble opinion, there are, for us non-native English speakers, mainly two obstacles lying on the road to fully appreciating an English novel: everyday words and phrases, and foreign culture. I seldom resort to a dictionary when reading those more serious works, such as textbooks, philosophical monographs etc., but I have to admit there are still many words I don't recognize in a normal English novel, which frequently show up in oral and informal English and most of which are less than six letters long. These little guys are more difficult to memorize than those big words due to their lack of internal structure. As for the second obstacle, it takes us more than reading many novels to conquer. Take Digital Fortress for an instance, the male protagonist had a mission to accomplish in Spain, where I encountered as a reader a lot of cultural issues of the Roman Catholic. I don't think reading another book from Dan Brown would possibly unsettle these confusions for me. In order to understand the Western culture, we have to read more.

feiyuyitiao

I still insist that plot you metion is pivotal, if you find a book you are really interested in, you may find new words was no problem. I like Jane Eyre, it use narrative way make me easy to create resonate of my own experience. another novel 'coral kiss' only two protagonist's love story. which always have a thread to link form beginning to the end.
by the way, for many of you talk about new words, I don't know you way to cope with when you meet them. my own way is like this , i take much time reading on the computer, use youdao(words software) to pick up and save it in textbook , when it amount more than 2000 or so, I will edit them in word processing tools and print it for further remeber, cause those word you first meet in context, you can easily recall it if not a long time past, at least lot of them. that is my way of learning words and phrases, so what's all of you way of learning?

wsmxdonline

feiyuyitiao: I still insist that plot you metion is pivotal, if you find a book you are really interested in, you may find new words was no problem. I like Jane Ey

I appreciated your idea.
My former approach is find the means in the dictionary instantly when I found a new word in the novel,it is inefficiently smetimes