How to Learn a New Language by Reading the Daily News

The best way to learn a new language is to immerse yourself in it. But when you don’t have a speaking partner or aren’t in the native country, then you have to come up with another idea. How about practicing with real-world sentences in the vocabulary of everyday conversation? There are several ways to do that, but
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How to Find Out the Reading Time of Any Book

Perhaps you’ve decided you want to read more. We’ve shared advice on how to make your way through more books than ever, but perhaps you’re still having trouble because you’re reading the wrong books. If you’re a slow reader, a short book that you finish quickly might help you feel more motivated than a long
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Amazon Charts the Books Everyone Else Is Reading

Amazon has launched new Charts designed to reveal the most popular books available to read. The online retailer has always offered a list of bestsellers, but these new charts draw in data from a number of sources to give a more accurate picture of what books people are actually reading. Amazon started life as an
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Don’t Just Bookmark Articles: Save Your Reading Progress Using This Nifty Tool

New stuff to read is always welcome, but the problem is that there’s just too much stuff to read these days, and our attention is fighting a losing battle. Think of an interesting article in your feed — maybe a longform article that asks for a sacrifice of time. A few lines down you realize that
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How Fast Are You? Check Your Thinking, Reading, and Reaction Speeds

It’s all about speed these days, isn’t it? Slow and steady no longer wins the race. How fast you can do something is going to set you apart from the others in today’s rat race. So, it would help to know where you rank compared to the average person. There are tools to benchmark your
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4 Best Free Mac Preview Alternatives for Reading PDFs

I love the Preview app that comes installed on all Mac systems. It’s pretty much the catch-all app for viewing and making basic edits to images or documents, and it comes with a bunch of nifty features that are useful. But even though Preview supports PDF documents, it could be better. This seems to be the case
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