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I have found that reading challenging texts out loud has helped my writing, reading, listening, and speaking.
People mock me for it. But it develops an active vocabulary faster than anything that I have stumbled upon for myself.
Pls elaborate, what types of challenging texts, some examples pls.
For me it was Bad Religion lyrics. 13 year old me would sit down in front of the CD player, booklet in one hand, dictionary in the other. Greg Graffin uses an obscene amount of vocabulary that I haven't encountered anywhere else.
One example:
The masses are obsequious, contented in their sleep. The vortex of their minds ensconced within the murky deep
I'm a native English speaker, and Greg Graffin did more for my vocabulary than public schools ever did.