I'm either a very bad english speaker/reader, or the text I'm trrying to read is very advanced... I'm not really sure wich of these two options that is true, but it is really frustrating not understanding the text. In one paragraph I was forced (not forced, but I had no choice!) to look up at least one word in each sentence (just to get the context...).
I'll give you some examples:
unambiguously
subtle
aspiration
prowess
locus
explication
amenable
salient
lacuna
congruence
I'm reading philosophical articles about historical science. It feels like that the authors pick the most complicated words in a gloss, and than compete to see who succeed to wirte most difficult words in an article. The language in those texts are in no way similar to the articles i'm used to read. Different structur of sentences and different words. My vocabulary becomes larger for each day on this compulsary course in history of science. Soon I will understand what the authors are trying to convey.
Well, It's always hard to get used to a new topic, but if one succeed it feels really good!
Of coarse, i'm not reading those articles all day. I'm also writing an article about biomass allocation in arctic plants. The same issue as in my bachelor thesis. I'm more or less rewriting the thesis, making it to an article. Hopefully it will be published in the journal "Plant ecology and diversity".
Except for studying, I'm taking a yoga-mindfulness course. First time was to day. I think i will enjoy!
Mindfulness will help me not feeling flatted when reading the very complicated articles! =)
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