G'day mate. How're you going? I'm pretty well and yourself? Today, I'm going to be introducing the website "Science Daily" to you, which is one of my recommended ones that essentially boost your English skills. Let me explain it to you a little bit further.
First of all, the overwhelming vast majority of articles here at ScienceDaily.com are written in a fairly simple structure unlike some of the counterparts such as Nature, Science or Scientific American. And most of the articles contain a wide range of general knowledge regarding science fields. So, you needn't have any background knowledge at all. Instead of this, you just need to have basic skills of the English language. If you can easily read English-written newspapers, then there won't be any issue at all.
For instance, have a look at this article. Before the complete article, there is always a piece of summary or abstract for the entire article, which helps grasp the gist of what the article is about.
And then, you can read a full story just below the summary. A range of vocabulary is like not more than 75,000 to 10,000 entry, which is almost equivalent of Japan's Eiken Pre-1st Grade. If you can barely pass this exam, then I don't think you're gonna be struggling to read most of the articles this website is offering. Of course, sometimes you can see unknown words or esoteric ones that perplex you a bit. Otherwise, whether you can understand or not is not something to do with your science-related knowledge. But it might be the lack of your basic skills of the English language such as grammar, etymology, and even pronunciation, all of which hamper your reading. If you think at least one of them is applicable to your case, then you've got to work out to improve it. That's the only way to perceive your real reading skills.
Other science magazines like Nature are not easy to read and fully understand even if your English is almost impeccable. The reason why this is is that the main readers for this magazine isn't intended to general audience, but more like science-involved ones. Because of this, many articles contain very specific words, parlance, terminologies like jargon that might confuse you a lot. And, presumably you can't get it what it means even if you try to consult a dictionary, which often such words are not registered due to the fact that terminologies tend to be excluded in a general dictionary. So, don't worry about the difficulty of understanding Nature's articles. Even myself, I love Nature, but I don't think I can fully comprehend some articles, in which case I won't ignore it, but will try to at least read them aloud to get a big picture of it within the context. So, if you've got a good understanding of English grammar, etymology and pronunciation, then at least you could enjoy reading any field of expertise whatsoever. I want you to be like that. To this end, reading the website 'ScienceDaily' would be perfect for those who are learning English but not really confident about science-related English-written articles.
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