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Originally Posted by ekbell
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Do I?
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Originally Posted by ekbell
How can a task you find too tiresome to be enlightening or entertaining be also the lazy option?
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Because I find people who have to listen to words rarely have put in the practice to be good readers.
If you would rather listen to an audiobook than read a book, you or your parents were lazy when you were a child and you find it easier to listen to someone read to you, as if you were a young child who did not yet know how to read.
For myself, listening to the slow speech of someone reading aloud to me is too tiresome to be entertaining or enlightening.
Have I made myself clear?
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Originally Posted by ekbell
If there is merit to choosing the more difficult option you should be taking on the challenge of learning the skills needed to listen and comprehend audiobooks.
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The mistake you are making is assuming more difficult = tiresome. *Listening to words* is not difficult at all. Babies do it. However it can be tiresome, esp when there are better faster options as you have cited below.
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Originally Posted by ekbell
l freely admit that I'm simply too *lazy* to practice paying attention to complicated material with my ears (the last time I regularly listened to books they contained much simpler material) when I can just pick up my tablet and have read the book in a tenth of the time using already well practiced skills. I do see merit in practicing listening skills so I've been listening to the Great Courses where no written option exists, sweetened by linking it to working on my embroidery so that even if I fail to retain much of the lecture I have another bit of my current project done.
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More power to you.