How to understand the language in old books?

I'm 13 and can't under stand the languege in older books like romeo and julet or the serise of jane austin is there some thing I could do to help me under stand it better help please and thank you

I don't know about Jane Austin, but with any of William Shakespeare's works like Romeo and Juliet the language is going to be harder to understand - he wrote in a specific style called Iambic Pentameter (not sure if thats how its spelt!), which can be rather confusing to read, and the words used can be a bit trying in this day in age.

Old flourish-style handwriting can be really hard for my generation to read, as can older works in general - I started reading the Iliad by Homer last year and found it tough going until I stopped trying to read it as a poem or in its broken up lines, and just treated it like someone had pressed enter in all the wrong places far too many times when typing it up. Remember, these works were written some time ago, when language was different, and even then they sometimes tried to be different for the day... and it didn't catch on!

Shakespeare is rather difficult for modern readers to understand. You will appreciate it a great deal more if someone explains the humor, rhetoric, and context. If you are tackeling Shakespeare on your own try an annotated edition.

They have modern additions.
Sparknotes.or Cliffnotes.

SORRY I DONT READ UNLESS NESSISARY

Well if it's HOW they're speaking like the traditional, thous, arts, speakeths, and other things then it's generally easy. Just send me a few words you need to to translate into modern-day english from that style in a funmail and I'll get it back to you as quickly as I can.

you have to sit there and analize what the sentence is saying. not word for word but get the picture of what its talking about. that's what I do for romeo and juliet, like there meeting at juilets balcony and she is talking about the body parts,(sorry don't have the text right in front of me) and I translated that into her talking about how his name is just his name, if he had a dfferent name romeo would still be himself, therefore his name does not matter to her.

sorry this is a year later, I just found this question and felt the need to answer it.