I don't know what "90% fluent" means - as is often the case, my reading is far better than my other skills but unless it's a text on a particularly technical topic, I can read general fiction, the news, blogs etc in Thai without too much difficulty - but if you want to get to a decent level in any language, unless you're blessed with exceptional natural ability, you have to read. One of the most important parts of learning a language is being exposed to comprehensible input, which is exactly what extensive reading gives you. Reading obviously helps develop skills in reading but I've also found that it's helped my listening hugely and it also helps enormously with acquiring and retaining vocabulary as well as getting you to internalize Thai’s unusual (from an English-speaker’s perspective) sentence-level and discourse-level patterns.
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I don't know what "90% fluent" means - as is often the case, my reading is far better than my other skills but unless it's a text on a particularly technical topic, I can read general fiction, the news, blogs etc in Thai without too much difficulty - but if you want to get to a decent level in any language, unless you're blessed with exceptional natural ability, you have to read. One of the most important parts of learning a language is being exposed to comprehensible input, which is exactly what extensive reading gives you. Reading obviously helps develop skills in reading but I've also found that it's helped my listening hugely and it also helps enormously with acquiring and retaining vocabulary as well as getting you to internalize Thai’s unusual (from an English-speaker’s perspective) sentence-level and discourse-level patterns.