Advanced English

My English stinks, even though my elementary school was bilingual and I continued studying the language all the way through junior high and high school. I can read in English, but every time I do so I must look up too many words in the dictionary, which is tiresome. Sometimes I give up and read a full page without consulting my Webster Dictionary (the same I've had for, uhm, twenty years or so), but then I find myself wondering if I really understood what I read, or if I came up with something the author never expected me to think or imagine. Anyway, the thing is I have a pretty bad English.

However, I can't give up the fight. I'll have to catch up on my English. In order to do so, I'm thinking of a strategy that may prove itself useful. Long time ago, I heard an italian philosopher (PhD) talking about the Erasmus scholarship. He said that, although it was a waste (in terms of academic achievement), it nevertheless had a possitive effect: it helped kids learn a foreign language. Then, this scholar who two hours ago had been talking about the notion of happiness in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics or something like that, went on to explain how did college students learned foreign languages. "The best way in which one can learn a language is in bed". He said this and then we all laughed. We laughed because we knew he was right. But since this truth is not theoretical but practical instead, I'll have to experience it in my own flesh and blood.