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| aabram Pentaglot Senior Member Estonia Joined 5533 days ago 138 posts - 263 votes  Speaks: Estonian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Mandarin, French | Message 9 of 10 30 March 2010 at 9:34am | IP Logged |
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Just keep ploughing on with it. There is no trick. Your brain just has to learn to
recognize word patterns, not to decipher each and every one of them. There are no shortcuts to it that I'm aware of. If it is of any consolation, I have trouble getting my Russian reading speed up too, if I haven't done it for long time. First several minutes I just stare at the pages and make conscious effort to cut through unfamiliar forms but then I get into the zone and if flows from that point on. Read texts that hold your interest so that reading itself becomes secondary objective and acquiring the content becomes the primary. Texts which bother you make your reading speed plummet even if it is your native language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5352 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 10 of 10 31 March 2010 at 5:57am | IP Logged |
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For a few months now, I have been learning Bulgarian, which uses a very similar script as Russian. Every time I take a look at words in Bulgarian, they do not look so strange or foreign anymore. A Croatian/Bosnian friend of mine once taught me a trick with the script, and I think it has helped me a lot, so maybe it will help you as well.
As we both know, the Cyrillic and Latin scripts do not differ nearly as much as one initially believes. I disregarded those letters which were similar, and focused on the differences. “п” for example, looks similar to the Greek letter pi, which is used in mathematics. Therefore, it is not too much of a stretch for me that it makes the “p” sound. Using this same sort of technique for the various different letters has really made it easy for me to work through the words without so much trouble. Now accenting the correct syllable is a different story, but to make one’s reading faster, I think this can help. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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