From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 07:53:25 MST
The key to speed reading, which most systems rely on, is to read a
group of words at once as a single concept, rather than treating each
word as separate concepts which need to be assembled together.
"The long blue and green eighteen wheeled truck"
"the sky was a cauldron of slate and steel greys"
A speed reader will learn to look at phrases like these with one
glance, rather than word by word, and understand them single concepts.
This is one of the drawbacks of alphabetical/phonemic writing systems
versus ideographic. While the ideographic systems can convey complex
concepts with very few, or single, symbols, they require memory
training to be able to recall hundreds of thousands of ideograms to do
so. Languages like English can be used with only a few hundred words
while more complex words can be puzzled out because they tend to be
assmbled from more complex words, generally of a root language like
latin, greek, or german.
--- gts <gts_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Nate wrote:
>
> > What are the best ways to increase reading speed. Does increasing
> > speed have drawbacks. Do the computer programs give you results, if
> > so how much are they exaggerating the results they advertize.
> > Let me know thanks, Nate
>
> About 20 years ago I took a speed-reading course similar to the old
> "Evelyn Wood" speed reading course. As I recall I was able to roughly
> triple my reading speed to something like 1500-1800 words/minute.
> (They
> say 3000+ words/min is possible, but I never reached that level.) I
> was
> impressed with my increase in reading speed, but since then it has
> dropped back to probably about 600-700 words/minute. I think my
> reading
> speed dropped back because I actually enjoy the English language;
> speed
> reading definitely hindered my ability to appreciate well written
> words,
> even if I was able to comprehend the author's meanings.
>
> The trick to speed reading is learning how not to "sound out" the
> words
> in one's mind as one reads. But as above it pleases me to sound out
> the
> words in my mind as I read, and so I lost interest in speed reading.
>
> -gts
>
>
=====
Mike Lorrey
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