Is the issue something like “reading your favorite novel is fun enough that you’re motivated to look up words you don’t know, but reading history books would be dense enough that if you had to look up words as you went you’d give up?”
It’s more that I have my favorite novel half memorized and that can count as the context in the sentence “figuring it out from context”, and I don’t have any history book memorized the same way.
I can envision history books being as fun as The Magicians (which is why I want the ability to read them), but can’t identify the interesting ones ahead of time. I think the transition step is reading the same history book in English and German, which I’ve identified some candidates for.
Is the issue something like “reading your favorite novel is fun enough that you’re motivated to look up words you don’t know, but reading history books would be dense enough that if you had to look up words as you went you’d give up?”
It’s more that I have my favorite novel half memorized and that can count as the context in the sentence “figuring it out from context”, and I don’t have any history book memorized the same way.
I can envision history books being as fun as The Magicians (which is why I want the ability to read them), but can’t identify the interesting ones ahead of time. I think the transition step is reading the same history book in English and German, which I’ve identified some candidates for.