Hi guys! I've already told you that reading books in English improves your language very well. This time I'm going to tell you about a good method of reading which's called Ilya Frank's method. I like this method and I'm grateful to the author for it!
In first, about the author.
Ilya Mihailovich Frank was born in Moscow in 1963, in a family of an engineer and a teacher. In 1985 he finished the philological department of Lomonosov Moscow State University by the speciality «Germanist, a teacher of the German language». Then he worked as a teacher for a few years at school, then at English Courses and as a teacher at RSHU (Russian State Humanitarian University) as well.
Since 2001 his books has been being produced. 237 books was produced by the August 2012 in more than 36 languages. And books still are produced and adapted to Ilya Frank's method. The author rules the translators and checks the books.
Currently Ilya Frank is a teacher of German and the head of the Project Learnbyskype.ru which is dedicated to the learning languages.
About the method.
The method is the special adaptation of books. The point is books are partly translated to English without changing the original text. Translation is added to the context with some grammatics comments. There are 261 books in 38 languages already.
As Ilya Franks says himself, this method helps you to learn the so called passive language. What is it? So it's when you can read, write and understand people, but you can't speak English fluently. This method's going to help you a lot, if your goal is for example to learn to read in English.
Unfortunately, all the books are not free of charge. But I have a little collection which I'm ready to share with you;) You'll find it in the Russian part of the article.
Keep learning English and take care!
Информацию об авторе, описание его метода, а также небольшую коллекцию книг Вы найдете в этой статье.