Instead of reading dictionaries, please consider photoreading the phrase books with dictionaries in the back for a foreign language. I have been learning Persian/Iranian/Farsi and since I have no shows to activate it with yet I simple pr it every day and build on my unconscious competence slowly but surely.
My purpose is different too from reading a whole dictionary. I intend to create ease in learning any language by making the structure, grammar, sound and feel of other languages a part of my unconscious language structuring. There is no replacement for personally embodying the languages you speak, but embodying a curiosity and openess to languages is the next best thng for me. It will help enormous with any languaging, including English, to have such a base of PRed phrasebooks, and I recommend it.
