https://www.hackingchinese.com/chinese-reading-speed-revisited/ A better way of learning Mandarin Sat, 25 Nov 2023 10:35:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hackingchinese.com/chinese-reading-speed-revisited/#comment-23303 Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:49:38 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=6530#comment-23303 Completely agree. A lot of people waste time looking for language learning “techniques” when the fact is the way to learn a language is very simple – use it! Want to get better at reading? Read more. It’s that’s simple. I’m not a fan of flash cards for the same reason. I recommend this article to anyone who is interested: Stephen Krashen “We Acquire Vocabulary and Spelling by Reading: Additional Evidence for the Input Hypothesis” The Modern Language Journal (1989)

]]> https://www.hackingchinese.com/chinese-reading-speed-revisited/#comment-23057 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:16:18 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=6530#comment-23057 I’m not a fast reader in English, but I’m very literate and have never “run out of time” on major exams. I agree with your premise completely, that the way to read faster is to read more. After only six years of studying Chinese both on my own, being tutored in China in one on one classes, and taking college Chinese at night, I finally came to the realization last year that I was lacking one big thing- vocabulary. If I learned a whole bunch more, I’d be a whole bunch more advanced, in both communicating verbally and in reading. I’ve been doing a lot more reading this past year and my vocabulary is growing, and my reading is getting faster. There doesn’t seem to be any easy way around it!

]]>