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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