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One thing that helps my reading, paradoxically, is listening to speech on headphones whilst out on a walk. I sometimes find myself visualising the words as I he
by roceasta 9y ago
One thing that helps my reading, paradoxically, is listening to speech on headphones whilst out on a walk. I sometimes find myself visualising the words as I hear them. Presumably this helps me to recognise them more speedily in print.
- kbutler 9y agoIf visualizing words at listening speed helps you read faster, you're probably reading pretty slowly. One key technique in beginning speed reading is to stop subvocalizing the words, so that you can go faster than speech.
- roceasta 9y agoIsn't being more familiar with words a good thing? Another thing that seems to help is keeping a boring old deadwood dictionary next to my favourite armchair.
- golovatyi 9y agoHi. I'm founder of Readlax. There is good exercise to block subvocalizing, it's read text by Readlax chrome extension and at the same time counting from 9 to 1 (9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1). It help u read by eyes and block subvocalizing. This technick train brain. We will add this exercise in next release of Readlax Extension
- tux1968 9y agoWhat is done instead of subvocalizing the words? Everytime I look at a word I instantly "hear" it, my imagination isn't good enough to conceive of what could replace that internal experience.
- kbutler 9y agoThe purpose of the written word is to help you think the concept. You can read faster if can see the wordand think the concept rather than mentally sounding it out: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz did you really vocalize each letter, or did you just think the concept, "alphabet"? alphabetically rather than "al-fu-beh-ti-cully" just the concept of "a-z order". You can also see groups of words at a time: The end of the road and think the concept instead of thinking each syllable.