Speed Reading Can Be Good For Studying And Sports?!
According to NTV, speed reading is becoming popular in Japan. Speed-reading classes are open at over 100 cram schools and prep schools in Japan.
The goodness of speed-reading is not only to read books faster, it leads to making a good performance at study or sports.
How do we acquire speed-reading skills?
- We have to improve our eye muscles to so they can move fast.
- Then we have to widen their viewing field so we can read a bunch of words at a time, not word by word.
- 600 letters per minute is an average reading speed for the Japanese to read Japanese. 3500 letters per minute looks too fast to read, but just watch it in order to burden the brain.
- After 3500/min practice, return to 600/min and we’ll see it looks slower than the first time you see it.
- When we continue this, our brains will get used to high speed eventually.
This method was quite useful to the kids who play soccer. To them the soccer balls seem to move slower! Speed-reading training helps improve information-handling ability. Athletes make use of this method, too. So why shouldn’t we?
I once wondered seriously if I should take Speed-listening program by Napoleon Hill. But it was way too expensive in Japan!
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I’m not good enough at reading in Japanese to really compare, but I’m curious how reading speeds for the brain differ from Japanese to English (or other European languages)
I feel like English, with it’s fewer characters, would be easier to speed reed as the mind comes in contact with the characters more often than Japanese (less characters, higher frequency), though at the same time Kanji, once mastered, might actually be faster to read. :/
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What about the health of the eye? I noticed the child was not blinking when reading the text speeding on the monitor. That worries me…
While I thoroughly enjoy how Japan continues to push the limits of human abilities in the most absurd, yet interesting ways, always striving to be the fastest at something (sticking coupons into a newspaper stack, calculating a pile of papers’ sums together, fastest typer, fastest etc.).
In my opinion, this is what causes suicide rates to rocket in Japan. The pressure to become super human from parents and society around Japanese. A bit much, and I can understand why a lot of the Japanese friends I have here in NY hate Japan and hope to never go back – the ability to move at your own pace is nigh impossible…just what I hear.
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Wow! Real Matrix Rain Code!!!
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speed reading is as same as watching picture..
Most kanji is not needed how to read. Just watching fast
the most important thig for speed reding is ” dont read sentences” Just watch.
reading with sound is later than Just watching.
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Speed reading is similar in any language and just involves reading faster than your inner voice can “say” the words. It was quite a trend in American universities for a while.
However, linguistic research shows that speed reading is not actually better for comprehension because less material stays in long-term memory. Speed readers tested against “normal” readers who read the same passages remembered the gist but didn’t recall many important details. The general consensus now is that speed reading is more of a novelty but that normal reading where you allow your inner voice to “speak” each word is necessary for effective study.
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Japanese writing eystem is consisted by Kanji ,hiragana, katakana.
it is easy to pick up Kanji. kanji is not needed inner voice.
hiragana is not needed to read..
i dont know about english.
howa bout korean .hangule is phonetic symbols they must transfer to sounds..
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He is right, Japanese is faster to read than English. In the video, they said an average Japanese person reads at a speed of 600 characters per minutes. While the average English speaker reads at speeds of about 250 words per minute.
Japanese is a mixture of syllabic characters and ideograms which can be recognized instantly by readers without a need for sub-vocalization.
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