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>I'm surprised by the number of adults I've worked with who had graduate degrees and yet could not read a paragraph out loud on the spot and sound natural It's
by hollandheese 2y ago
>I'm surprised by the number of adults I've worked with who had graduate degrees and yet could not read a paragraph out loud on the spot and sound natural
It's hard to shift gears like that. I can read vastly faster than I can speak so it can be difficult to coordinate the two on the spot. Most reading people do is silent reading, so this shouldn't necessarily be that surprising.
- smeej 2y agoI also read silently vastly faster than I can speak (~1100 vs 150 wpm), but I can as easily read slowly enough to speak what I'm reading fluently. When I would hop on a call with these people and ask them to summarize what they thought my message said, they weren't close on that either, so I'm pretty sure these people actually were not reading fluently.