Every time I read something, I keep reading out loud in my head. I think doing this slows down my reading speed quite a lot. How can you fix this? I envy people who can just "look" at the text and understand it.
Reading out loud in your head
I'm a speedreader, so I rarely read along word-for-word. Which means I probably never do the author justice! But I've been doing it since I was a little girl, so I don't know how you teach yourself to do it if it doesn't come naturally. But I know there are classes on it, so it can be done.
In normally do not read along while reading at all, but rather just parse the text itself without having to think about how it would actually be said. However, the thing is that I think about what is written as an abstract symbolic language which is not merely a written version of the spoken language and which does not need the spoken language to be understood. To me, written English is more like Latin to a speaker of early Romance in that it is purely written and read while my native dialect is purely spoken, with the two being markedly distinct from each other.
<<In normally do not read along while reading at all, but rather just parse the text itself without having to think about how it would actually be said. >>
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I think I look at the text and hear it at the same time. I'm not sure that is reading out loud in my head, though. I read and type pretty quickly. I use a bookmark to scan the line.
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That's a typo, probably something which I missed from a previous version of my post.
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That's a typo, probably something which I missed from a previous version of my post.
I read slowly, I reread paragraphs I thought to be beautiful or interesting, I even sometimes act out dialogues in my head (silly, yes!). Speed reading is ok for some boring subject in school, but does not aid enjoyment...
Sometimes I act out dialogue, too. ;) When nobody's looking, of course!