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Reading helps build vocabulary and probably helps improve her use of the language as a whole. It’s like running to lose weight but you decide to cheat by taking
by worrycue 3y ago
Reading helps build vocabulary and probably helps improve her use of the language as a whole. It’s like running to lose weight but you decide to cheat by taking a cab instead.
With math, when you are first learning the very basics it helps to do a few problems by hand to get a feel of things. Sure if you have a degree in STEM have have deal with advance math you can probably get away with just reading the theory only.
- RC_ITR 3y agoMy argument is that reading is actually a very bad way to learn/communicate and always has been. We just built a very strong culture encouraging it because for a long time it was the most efficient way to do both things. Now it’s not, but the tradition of it being important is hard to shake. The closest analogue in my mind is how the classics in their original Greek were considered the only true way to learn for a very long time (even once most of the important knowledge had been translated to English very well).
- worrycue 3y agoReading is a perfectly fine way to increase one’s vocabulary. It’s not the only way - TV and actually conversation would work too. I don’t see why it’s a bad way. It’s cheap and doesn’t require manpower per session.
- bigfishrunning 3y agoFor some people, it still is the most efficient way to learn/communicate. Nothing is more annoying then using google to try to solve some problem and the first few results are videos...