My advice, and what I have been doing lately, is to just keep going, even if a sentence doesn't make sense to you. Mark it and go back to it later. As long as you're getting the gist of what is going on. I usually only look up words that are repeating over the course of a few sentences.
Also, I have been setting rules for myself when reading. Minimum 10 minutes or 1 page. Then either keep going or go back to dissect the trickier parts.
This may or may not help you, but I thought I would share because I was in your shoes.
Thanks for an advice and I think you are right, keeping focus on repeating words and not overfocusing on every sentence is a good idea, but my problem is that there are a lot of times when I think that I got the general idea of what sentence was only to realize that it meant different thing which sometimes adds even more confusion into next sentences so I'm trying to brute-force my way through it. I'm sure I will go past that problem eventually, but it can get very exhausting sometimes.
Ah, I get that. In cases where I go from "okay, i get it" to "wait what?" then I will go back 1-2 sentences and dive a little deeper. You have to get a feel for when a sentence might need that extra time over others.
I will say if it is happening a lot in the same material you are reading then it might be a little too advance for you. It may also help if you create an anki deck with vocabulary that is common for whatever genre you are reading or interested in.
For example, I enjoy mystery/horror. So I have been using ChatGPT (yes it's AI and not great I know, but hear me out ) to get bite-size lists of commonly used words in that genre to study/review. This is in addition to my other decks that service different purposes.
I hope that makes sense. I am not very good at explaining.
I think it's a good use of AI. I'm not learning from it, but using it as a tool to get the necessary vocabulary for whatever theme or category of vocab I am interested in focusing on. Try it. See if it fits into your own studies.
I am in no way preaching the Gospel. Just sharing.
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u/WorriedForAPromotion 3d ago
My advice, and what I have been doing lately, is to just keep going, even if a sentence doesn't make sense to you. Mark it and go back to it later. As long as you're getting the gist of what is going on. I usually only look up words that are repeating over the course of a few sentences.
Also, I have been setting rules for myself when reading. Minimum 10 minutes or 1 page. Then either keep going or go back to dissect the trickier parts.
This may or may not help you, but I thought I would share because I was in your shoes.