I speak, read and write english (my second language) fluently although not perfectly correct. I started thinking (when studying) and even dreaming (when I dre

I speak, read and write english (my second language) fluently although not perfectly correct. I started thinking (when studying) and even dreaming (when I dreamt about programming, that is :-) in English before graduating because most of my books etc where in English. In addition to reading lots and lots, one of the small things that helped me a lot was 10 years back or so I used to have an FF extension that let me doubleclick on any word on a webpage to get TFD definition of the word highlighted. This took the effort out of expanding my vocabulary as I could look things up without breaking flow. I still sometimes look up words that I haven't seen before although not as frequently as before. (My problem is for a lot of words, esp. those I don't use at work I can read and write them but I might never have heard them.)