There is a technique called "Listening-Reading" that's fairly well known within the language-learning community. The idea is straight-forward: Get a novel-len

There is a technique called "Listening-Reading" that's fairly well known within the language-learning community. The idea is straight-forward: Get a novel-length text in your target language, a high-quality recording of that text and a literal translation of the text in your native language. Alternate between reading the original text and the translation while simultaneously listening to the recording. The method is supposedly fantastic, but it's incredibly difficult to gather suitable materials. While widely-translated books like Harry Potter seem ideal, the translations are not literal and occasionally the audiobooks do not match the texts exactly. Further info: http://learnanylanguage.wikia.com/wiki/Listening-Reading_Method http://learnanylanguage.wikia.com/wiki/Listening-Reading_Met... http://users.bestweb.net/~siom/martian_mountain/!%20L-R%20the%20most%20important%20passages.htm#_Toc346179147 http://users.bestweb.net/~siom/martian_mountain/!%20L-R%20th...