G'day, how's it going mate? Today, I'm gonna talk about why rapid reading is not good for a beginner of the English language. To put it simply, you are still learning English grammar, pronunciation as well as etymology, so everything you are going through will automatically be gone without getting anything at all. I do believe none of the people learning English suits this reading method. Without further ado, let's get underway, shall we?
Rapid reading is basically a good method for someone who needs particular information or just gathers random knowledge as quickly as possible. In this case, we do this rapid reading. However, normally we don't do this precisely because we want to enjoy reading, learning new things, and even understanding the structure of the English sentences. So, even if you're already an advanced learner, it doesn't mean that you should do such rapid reading without having any particular purpose. Having said that, rapid reading is nonsensical unless you really need to find and obtain a specific thing that is critical to your research or something so quickly. Otherwise this method has an adverse effect on your English learning.
Ok, I understand that, how should we read books, journals or any sorts of articles? Well, take ample time to comprehend what each sentence really means, implies, or wants to convey to readers, which is far more important than relentlessly reading it so quickly. Rapid reading is not so cool, nor is it sophisticated. Without understanding of the whole or at least overall meaning and implication of the article that you're reading, it's just a waste of time. Not many people need particular information immediately unless you're doing PhD or researching for a particular topic with a short period of time. Apart from these situations, everyone wants to enjoy and learn English language itself. So, if you wish to be good at reading, then you'd better peruse it sentence by sentence to make sure you fully understand them semantically and syntactically as well. This is the best reading method I can think of.
To recapitulate, if you think I need to learn the way of rapid reading now, then forget about it for the time being. Instead of contemplating about rapid reading, I highly recommend slow reading, which has an immense effect on boosting your grammar, pronunciation and etymological knowledge. I do believe that rapid reading will only be needed when you're doing research essays, searching particular information that needs to be figured out pretty much immediately. But this skill cannot be learnt over night. It takes months and months to get used to, because to do so you've got to have a certain level of semantic and syntactic knowledge, otherwise presumably you won't be able to like decipher encrypted information, which is, I reckon, sort of a metaphor for unencessity of rapid reading.
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