Informative and fun way to learn: Ever tried learning from a grammar book, or tried mugging up new words from a vocabulary book? Gets boring pretty fast right. The reason is that our brain tends to tire easily when you are actively trying to learn something. However, reading a newspaper is fun! There are news stories, new information, and even gossip to keep you hooked - and you pick up so many new words and writing styles along the way!
• Something new every day: When reading a sinhala newspapers, set a target for each day. One day, study how first, second and third person account is used. Another day, you can learn how tenses are used and then study sentence formation another time, so on and so forth. In addition, because the reading material will be so diverse, you will not get bored of it. Even if you do not intentionally maintain a daily basis target, you will learn a lot through reading the news articles, like being to the point, forming crisp and meaningful sentences and how to present information using the minimum necessary words - now isn't that what effective communication is all about?