{"id":113,"date":"2015-08-22T08:31:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T08:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/?p=113"},"modified":"2015-09-02T08:49:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T08:49:16","slug":"113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/2015\/08\/22\/113\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read effectively in a foreign language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\">This post is just to recommend another blog entry, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwillteachyoualanguage.com\/reading-in-a-foreign-language\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=facebook\">How to read effectively in a foreign language<\/a>.\u201d It was brought to my attention by one of our team members, and it&#8217;s chock full of useful tips. If you&#8217;re pressed for time, read under the headings, \u201cHow to deal with words you don\u2019t know\u201d and \u201cThe six-step reading process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">While we&#8217;re at it&#8230; The blog post assumes that you have access to \u201cfun\u201d reading material like fiction. I know that most of us don&#8217;t have access to that kind of material. So, let me make a standing offer to purchase books for you if you&#8217;re not near a good bookstore. We have a great bookstore in Mazar. and it has a large variety of fun books.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\">Children&#8217;s non-fiction books\u2014nicely illustrated<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\">Cookbooks<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\">Iranian short stories<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"western\">Professional books (psychology, medicine, engineering, etc.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"western\">If you&#8217;re interested in any of these, send me an email; we can work out the transportation and the cross-charge. I also recommend that every reader have a copy of the <i>Farhang Moaser Persian-English Dictionary<\/i> (by Suleiman Haim).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is just to recommend another blog entry, \u201cHow to read effectively in a foreign language.\u201d It was brought to my attention by one of our team members, and it&#8217;s chock full of useful tips. If you&#8217;re pressed for time, read under the headings, \u201cHow to deal with words you don\u2019t know\u201d and \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-about-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}