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| Majka Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic kofoholici.wordpress Joined 4469 days ago 307 posts - 755 votes  Speaks: Czech*, German, English Studies: French Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 10 05 April 2013 at 10:46am | IP Logged |
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It is an interesting question.
I did quick check using the statistics in Moonreader (the ebook reading program for Android). No idea how accurate this count is, but according the English text and the last time I was checked in my native language (in school, 30 years ago), it seems to be in the correct ballpark. All of it is in "easy-to-read" script - Latin or Cyrillic. All reading is "easy" fiction, reading for fun, not looking anything up, not even in pop-up dictionary, simply reading as in my native language: English - lowest 1100 wpm, highest 1800 wpm (several different books, mostly crime/thrillers/sci-fi) Russian - 557 wpm (quite easy book, understanding without problems, reading at "slower" speed) Italian (one of my weakest languages, the book is Pinocchio, reading only for gist and probably depending a lot on guessing of meaning through my other languages) - 640 wpm Czech and German should be above English (the test in Czech did show something slightly above 2000 wpm, if I remember correctly, and I have the feeling that I got quite a bit faster when needed), French around Italian with much better understanding, Spanish should be somewhere around 300-400 wpm, certainly not more. When studying (language textbook, reading explanations, grammar books or articles), the speeds are much lower - the speeds show anything from 40 - 140 wpm. The high speeds are probably not so good for language learning. And with different books, the speeds would go noticeably down. Edit: One more point - this all was on my phone and reading on small screen is actually better for higher reading speeds, at least for me - I can set the font size and line width optimal for me. The same is true for e-ink reader I own. I suspect that reading an actual book, although more pleasant, would result in lower speeds simply due to this. Edited by Majka on 05 April 2013 at 11:11am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Gomorritis Tetraglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 4090 days ago 91 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Catalan, French Studies: Greek, German, Dutch | Message 10 of 10 06 April 2013 at 3:04am | IP Logged |
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I'm amazed by the previous reply, 2000 wpm seems absolutely crazy to me. I just made a test reading a tiny text in
English and calculated 450 wpm. Probably I could do more, maybe something like 600 wpm. But I don't feel the need at all to read faster. Why would I want that? I feel that if I read faster I would be reading just for the sake of it. I want to think about what I read, otherwise why would I bother to read it? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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