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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6281 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 113 of 128 12 December 2011 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
It's up to you, but: everyone is a slow reader in a foreign language. Especially the vast majority of Tadoku participants, who are learning Japanese. Can you imagine reading Japanese as quickly as English? ;-) For anyone who wants to quickly improve his reading speed (quickly = within less than an hour), I can really recommend http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/07/30/speed-readin g-and-accelerated-learning/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6408 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 114 of 128 12 December 2011 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
and did I mention I'll do Polish for my May 6WC? pre-tournament excitement yay. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6408 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 115 of 128 12 December 2011 at 7:06pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6281 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 116 of 128 12 December 2011 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
If you actually speed-read, then yes. However, after the speed-reading exercise, my natural, relaxed reading speed was also faster than before, while I was still taking in every word. Think about it: in our native language, we naturally read faster than in a foreign language. However, that doesn't mean that when we increase our foreign language reading speed up to native-language levels that we'll stop enjoying the read. In fact, that should increase the enjoyment. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6250 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 117 of 128 12 December 2011 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Within reason, I enjoy books more while reading them more quickly. This doesn't apply to anything extremely heavy (say, a book I'm actually learning new branches of math or new algorithms from, or something which impels me to do some philosophical reflection). But for most books, I find reading quicker leads to more comprehension and more enjoyment. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5192 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 118 of 128 12 December 2011 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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To me, it's like food -- I find no enjoyment in rushing through it.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6250 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 119 of 128 13 December 2011 at 3:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Likewise. I just find the concept of reading most books slowly to be like that of spending at least an hour on a salad, making sure to chew each bite a hundred times: after a certain point, it becomes truly off-putting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5119 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 120 of 128 13 December 2011 at 8:11am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'd prefer 2 salads in an hour. And a soup if there's still time left.
I believe the point of increasing your reading speed is to have things exactly the same - comprehension, enjoyment - in less time. If you read faster but enjoy less, you didn't really read faster as they had meant, you only skimmed instead of read. Kind of like, when you're a junior staff, you earn $100 a day. When you're more experienced, you earn $200 a day - not because you worked twice as hard, sweated twice as much, or worked twice the hours, but because you're now twice as capable. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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