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matans · 06-15-2007, 01:05 PM

I'd like to negate something mentioned earlier in this thread. Speed reading is used to read a book twice in two thirds of the time it would take a normal person read it once. So a brain surgeon would typically skim through the book once without grasping every word, and then progress to reading every word, thus covering everything and ending up with better retention. The person who implied speed reading important material is slopy just isn't aware that the way reading is taught in school actually blocks your brain from processing the information you read efficiently, or as efficiently as you can, unless you are a natural speed reader, and that it develops your speed AND your retention and comprehension. If the surgeon finishes learning the book faster, he has more time to read the next book.

All that given that you train yourself, since it is not a magic trick, but a matter of training, the same as you train in a sport.

now, relating to the original question on this thread - I think that speed reading is most relevant for you mother tongue language. But I would learn it anyway because as you learn English more and more you will be able to gradually benefit from this skill in English as well.

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matans Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2	I'd like to negate something mentioned earlier in this thread. Speed reading is used to read a book twice in two thirds of the time it would take a normal person read it once. So a brain surgeon would typically skim through the book once without grasping every word, and then progress to reading every word, thus covering everything and ending up with better retention. The person who implied speed reading important material is slopy just isn't aware that the way reading is taught in school actually blocks your brain from processing the information you read efficiently, or as efficiently as you can, unless you are a natural speed reader, and that it develops your speed AND your retention and comprehension. If the surgeon finishes learning the book faster, he has more time to read the next book. All that given that you train yourself, since it is not a magic trick, but a matter of training, the same as you train in a sport. now, relating to the original question on this thread - I think that speed reading is most relevant for you mother tongue language. But I would learn it anyway because as you learn English more and more you will be able to gradually benefit from this skill in English as well.