G'day mate, how's it going? Today, I'm going to be talking about why everyone can read and understand TIME or The Economist. Quite simply, you don't need to read everything. What? Well, let's go ahead and dive right into it.

First of all, do you need to read everything to catch the main point of what the article is about in Japanese? Probably, you read the main parts of sentences, not the whole article. By the same token, you just read like that in English as well. Nothing differs regardless of languages, grammar and types of vocabulary. Ok, then which parts of sentences should we read? Well, you just need to read the main subject, verb and object. For instance, you could omit sentences like non-restrictive uses of relative clauses, parentheses or any other additional exemplifications. Non-restrictive uses of relative clauses are something like, "Hiroshi, who is sitting outside, is one of the most famous engineers in Hitachi Corporation." The italicised area is just an additional info which is not necessary to understand the overall meaning of what it is about, right? Parentheses are almost akin to this sort of thing. If you don't need to read this, then you can obviously save your time, and probably you should be able to read and comprehend the overall meaning of what the article is about without having a significant problem.

Magazines like TIME and The Economist seem to be difficult to read for beginners, but in fact it's not that hard if you effectively avoid trying to read the aforementioned sentences. It's absolutely not essential to read every sentence in order to comprehend the overall meaning of what the article is about. It's a waste of time that you're stuck in reading and looking up a word in a dictionary every time when encountering new words. Normally, good authors or writers tend not to use difficult words for the main subject, verb and object, in part because they want their readers to understand quite easily, otherwise nothing is going to be best-seller. Their main purpose of publishing and their targeted readers are quite different from, for instance, academia, researchers, or PhD candidates' dissertations. Yep, such people tend to show off what they've got and write English sentences in a more esoteric tone.

To recapitulate, even if you don't understand difficult words, it doesn't mean that you cannot read TIME and The Economist. speaking of reading comprehension, ultimately speaking you just need to read and understand the main subject, verb and object in the article you're reading right now. In doing so, I don't think you're going to be struggling to read and understand any article without the heavy reliance on dictionary.

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