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by MisterBastahrd 1287 days ago
I think one of the best ways to increase your overall ability to utilize a language is to read as much fiction as you can. Authors do not like to sound repetitive. As they write their novels, they will be forced to find alternate ways to say the same thing.
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Also, authors write dialogue, which is speech as it would be said.

This is an important distinction in languages where talking like, say, a newscaster, would sound extremely stuffy and awkward.

Agreed, and I had one language prof who said she could always tell who in her courses read for pleasure and who did not.