how much books did it take you to learn how to read literature

>>9473261
Just get an e-reader. You can look up any word instantly without having to stop reading.

Even as a well-educated native English speaker I still semi-frequently have to look up words on my phone. There's no shame in it. It depends highly on the type of stuff you're reading too, the further back you go the more likely it is that you will need to look things up since the words used will have fallen out of the vernacular.

Native English speaker here, but I will relate my experience in Spanish:

I can read modern day YA books and rarely have to look up any words. However, the further back I go in time (as >>9473311 said), the more I find myself struggling and not recognizing much. Something like Don Quijote or La Vida es Sueno will likely always be impossible for me.

If your goal is to read authors like Melville, Dickens, or Tolkien, you will have a very hard time, and since most practice you get with a language has colloquial applications in mind, you get modern readings.

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>>9473335
>Tolkien
Really? Is he that difficult for non-english speakers to understand?

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>>9473261
Yesterday i had to look up "ultramontane"