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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
That I felt like being bombarded with words. It was an app that lined up the words with some colored (red?) mark on android - only and always one word at a time. It worked well with shorter words, but when they got longer than 3 syllables the time was too short. It may have something to do with my pattern recognition not working well for English.
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First off, let me just applaud you for being able to read English as a second language. I'm planning on learning German specifically to read some German books in their original but I doubt I'll ever get to the point where I can use speed reading software with a foreign language. That's pretty awsome.
Second, I'm not sure of the app but there are ways to adjust that, "chunk size" is the term used I believe. There's also settings to adjust the pause time for pronunciation.
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Unrelated to RSVP is a problem for me distinguishing between "where" "there" and "they're", because they are the same to me. I see the word, hear it, and know it doesn't make sense. Where - oh wait, it is the thingy that asks me what direction it is. There - oh, already found what I was looking for, no longer a question. They're - I give up and try to simply pronounce it "theyare" as to not confuse it with the other two.
Speed goes up, and things blurr together - what was that? Oh something car and fast. Slow it down so I can understand, and will be slower than even normal reading, but harder to decipher and put together as a whole. More like someone telling you the news instead of actually being there. I want to be there when I read.
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That's fair, have you tried it in German? It does take some getting used to, I didn't start it at 550, I went from 350 to 400 to 450, stayed there for a while and slowly bumped it up.
Anyway, sorry to hear you didn't like it, personally I love it but that's me. At least you tried it.