Hi! This is Ray. Today I'm gonna tell you 3 websites can help you make a habit of reading
Do you still remember what is the very first English article you ever read?
To many people, English reading is the same thing as "reading test"
which means after you finished your reading, you have to pick up a correct answer from ABCD
so you can imagine that many people do not have a habit of reading, and are not interested in it
what's worse, whenever they see English words, their heads will hurt, their eyes, their knees, their whole bodies will hurt
but I believe English is an enjoyable thing
like my sister, she like to read English novels. This is how she enjoys reading
and you can see there are a ton of novels behind me
Oh, as for this, our background are all real
There are many people questioned like if it is computer generated image. No it is real
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but I'm seldom read English novels, they are too heavy
and they have so many pages, it takes lots of time to finish them
Yeah it may sound like I am a lazy, OK
It's not because of laziness, OK? It's personal favor
So besides reading novels, how can we get interesting and convenient English reading sources?
We all have a smartphone, in this time with advanced Internet, apparently they will be websites and apps
As for me, I am used to using English surface on Internet
so almost all of my common visit websites are display in English
So English reading is simultaneously how I get information and how I get entertainment
Today I'm gonna introduce 3 websites that I visit them for fun
to help you making a habit of English reading through interesting contexts
The first on is "9gag". It's a joke website, all the contexts are made by their users
Usually it will be a pic, or a gif, with a short line of words
There's their popularity ranking on the homepage, and it's updating every few minutes
So even if you visit the website very often, it's hard to bump into things you have already read
Next I'm going to show you how this website looks like and what its context is
When you visit 9gag, you can see the most popular post
As we can see, its post will have a pic of a gif, and a simple English sentence
like here, "He just want to take a nap."
Yeah, cute and funny posts like this
Sometimes, it will also have English inside the picture
So you can see the title here: "This is pure gold."
But the title inside the image is: "This was the happiest cat they could find..."
It's a vegetarian cat, so it looks really upset
So like this, simple, funny and relaxing posts
By just looking through all these, you can see some English accompany with images
OK then let's look at some special stuff on 9gag. These called "meme"
They are presented by animals, classical images to symbolize a typical meaning
Such as this, "awkward seal", it always comes with very embarrassing things
And this is "success baby"
Usually, a very success thing will be accompanied with this meme
Then this is "curious philosoraptor"
If something is thinking about a philosophical question, it will use this meme
This meme is called "confession bear"
Basically it will be used on maybe propose, something stupid or bad you have done in the past
This meme is "first world problems"
It may be a really small question, and it will appear with this meme
Of course there are much more meme there, but we can only introduce those today
When you read 9gag, and find something appear repeatly
Then you can get to know which meme are going to what kind of feeling
Next we are talking about BuzzFeed, an American new media company
which also owns a very successful Youtube channel
Basically, this site is showing funny thing happened in the US real like and the Internet
in funny and brief articles
BuzzFeed, this website, we can see tons of posts when we visit it
it's a little bit cluttered, but I'll suggest you guys to start with the categories up here
There're many categories: LOL, win, OMG
cute, fall, or WTF, it might be something weird
And as for me, I always start with this
the red arrow, what it is, it's call "trending"
namely the hot topics now. I will start with here
And then, we can find 2 tabs
The first one is "trending now", which means it's hot now
and "top posts this week, which means the hottest post this week
Usually, you can find interesting articles at these 2 places
Now let's pick up one of them. Let's look at this:
"17 Pictures of Bill Clinton Realizing that Balloons Exist"
Okay access to the context, at first of course we can see the title
and this passage is about Clinton will be unusually excited when he see balloons
in the beginning, it will give you some discribtion
Here are some bullet points, from 1 to 8 and their photos
So, this one " They are real! The balloons are real!"
"He can touch the balloons!" "Touching another" "Wow"
Hahaha, a zoom-in photo. Ok, so
He really likes balloons! How could this become the hottest post this week
And another interesting thing is
BuzzFeed is talking about the hottest things in American real life and the Internet world
so you can know what is trending now by simply checking their posts
The last on is Reddit, a site that I visit almost everyday
It is known as "the front page of the Internet", which is the homepage of the Internet
or the American ptt
It has various sections can allow people to discuss and post
Then let's take a look at this site, Reddit. Its layout looks a little bit like ptt
Very simple and nude. There are many different hot keys and buttons
looks a little complicated
But basically, the first page you see would be the hottest post
There are many ways to react with posts
You can upvote or downvote them. Just like what we do on ptt
You can also click on one of them to leave a comment
And if you click on a comment, you can see how people talk about the post
Another point is called "subreddit"
which means that many posts are separated by different topics
So, today I'm going to recommend 3 subreddits. The first one is "askreddit"
When you throw out a question, and people will discuss it below Basically, it's a place allow you to discuss questions
So, usually there are plenty of comments below You can see there are almost 2000 comments here
So if you are interested in one question
you can click on it and see people debating badly
The second section I am gonna recommend is "Today I Learned"
On this section, people share what they learned
All the posts here are started with TIL, which means "Today I Learned"
followed by a sentence, which is what he or she learned
So, on the section, you can find some interesting trivia
and below them, of course, people's comments
The last section I want to recommend is "Today I Fucked Up", TIFU
Basically, I really suggest that you can visit this section when you are down
The logic here is, someone did something really stupid
He or she will start the post with "TIFU", then what stupid thing he or she done
For example, let's take a look at this one, TIFU by asking a girl out
So, click on it, and we can see a short story
The story about how he fucked it up
So, I strongly believe that, after you read the post, after you read the section
you'll feel like your life is still hopeful
Alright! These are the 3 useful Websites I recommend
Even though you can't see international news or classical literature there
but they are supposed to be attractive and interesting
Visit them every day without any pressure, after a long period
insist this habit, maybe you can start your habit of English reading
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