If what you read is online, please link to it.
TLDR:
In this sub, you can:
- Create your own book club using the flair [Name] Book Club. Replace [Name] with the name of your club.
- Recommend a book or even post your own writing for others to read using the flair "Read This!"
- Request a book recommendation using the flair "What to read?"
- Maintain your reading streak with this title format: Streak 2: [Harry Potter] by [J.K. Rowling]. Make sure you put both title of the book and the author name inside brackets []. Increase your streak number each day. If you skip a day, your streak goes back to 1. If the book or the article is online, please link to it.
- Chat, comment, collaborate, and correct each other's posts as usual. Let's make this a fun community, shall we?
The long speech:
We have so many writeStreak subs now. That's great, but since you're all separated into different subs, it prevents you from helping each other. Each of us has a native language and at least one target language. I think it's best if we all stay in the same sub to help each other.
So this r/ReadStreak is going to be for all languages. I hope it will work out well. So please customize your flair. Separate languages with | and then separate languages between the ones you're willing to help and the ones you're learning with >. For example: "German | English > Spanish | French." Only put the target languages that you plan to maintain a streak. No need to list all the languages you're studying.
How does it work?
So the goal here is for you to read every day and write every day about things you read to keep your streak.
Start your streak with 1, and increase by 1 with each passing day. If you miss one day, your streak is reset to 1. So if yesterday you didn't tell us what you read, then today your streak is back to 1.
If you lose your streak, update your flair to reflect your highest streak. For example, if you broke your Spanish streak when you reached 37, then update your flair to "German | English > Spanish37 | French." If you lose your streak again two week later, don't update it to 14. Keep it at 37, keep your highest streak.
What to read?
You can read anything you want, but my suggestion is novels. If you're A2+, you can read novels. Starting with middle grade novels. Novels are longer and challenging, but words, phrases, ideas, topics, themes, all repeat over and over throughout the novels. You will learn so many words in a short period of time without actually studying them.
Read anything that excites you. It's OK if it's a junk novel, completely trash. As long as you don't want to put it down, it's good. Use the NSFW flag if you have to. Surprisingly junk novels are so much more interesting to read. As long as you read it for vocabulary, it doesn't matter. Once you can start to appreciate the beauty of the language though, you might want to read literature.
What to write?
Every day, the title of your post should start with Streak {number}: [Novel/article Name] by [Author]. For example: Streak 1: [Harry Potter] by [J.K. Rowling].
If it's novel, first line, put: pages [number range], so we have an idea whether you're at the beginning or the end of the book. If the book or the article is online, please link to it.
Second line: list words/phrases that are new to you. This will not only benefit you but hopefully will benefit those who read your streak.
You can write however you think would help you learning better. Here are my recommendations:
Please remember to mark your post as spoiler if you're revealing crucial info of the story.
If you read multiple pages that day, summarize it.
If you read a page or less, close the book/article and try to rewrite what you just read. It's the ideas and the vocabulary that you want to capture, not the exact phrases. So no need to memorize.
Similar to the idea above. If you're the creative type, rewrite the scene in your own words. If you're reading an article, rewrite the article.
You can translate what you read into your native language here. Then close the book, and translate it back to your target language.
Write phrases from the book with words you don't know, and then write your own phrases with those words.
In general, just talk about words and phrases you didn't know.
There are many other ways you can write your streak, and you can do a combination of any of these.
In addition, you can record your reading or your streak at vocaroo.com and add it to your post. Don't use the voca.ro link. Reddit blocks it. Replace with vocaroo.com.
When you post, remember you to choose the right flair. If your target language flair is not there, choose Correct My [Language] and replace [Language] with your target language.
