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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 9 of 11 06 March 2014 at 5:11pm | IP Logged |
Yeah, nothing new under the sun. It's still a fact that many people who try it instantly want to Spritz everything.
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| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4727 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 10 of 11 06 March 2014 at 11:13pm | IP Logged |
I know that just about every combination of 4-8 letters has been attributed to some kind
of app or website, but what a miserable name "Spritz" is...
Anyhow, given that the process of reading this way is fundamentally different than the
process of speed reading (as described in the ppt that Doitsujin posted, thanks!) I'm
willing to entertain the notion that this may be more effective for foreign language
learning than traditional speed reading techniques. Perhaps if you had somehow built a
good vocabulary but still lacked reading speed?
In short, I'm dubious but interested.
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5856 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque
| Message 11 of 11 07 March 2014 at 1:35am | IP Logged |
My experience matches YnEoS' almost exactly. I am generally a really slow reader but had no trouble working my way up to 600 wpm. There were moments where a word or two slipped by, but generally i could follow along. Paragraphs were much easier to follow than titles, which i missed more often.
I'm not sure that it's really as enjoyable as reading a book, but the idea YnEoS mentioned sounds promising as a quick way to review something.
I'm curious how they would add Chinese support.
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