I can vouch for this technique. Most native speakers can listen much faster than they can talk. Blind users often turn their screen reader speed up to 11. When

I can vouch for this technique. Most native speakers can listen much faster than they can talk. Blind users often turn their screen reader speed up to 11. When you listen to a video at a fast speed, it allows you to fit more information into your working memory than you would have been able to .. if .. the .. speaker .. um ... was ... talking .. er ... like ... ... sorry what were we talking about? Oh yes listening at a fast wpm aids understanding of the content. Listen at a speed that is on the border of intelligibility and when you notice that something doesn't make sense, pause the video and go back and listen to it again immediately. This active engagement with the content is key instead of passively sitting back and watching a video. It doesn't work for all content. Some people just speak really fast and accurately. But for the average online lecture it works super well.