| If you want to learn how to speed read, there | | | | Vocalizing in both ways is harmful to your reading |
| are a you should really try to avoid vocalizing | | | | speed. It will slow down your reading speed in a |
| words as you read. | | | | big way. If you have the habit of vocalizing, then |
| Vocalizing is the biggest obstacle you will need to | | | | you probably can't even imagine how fast you |
| overcome when learning how to speed read. | | | | could read if you never vocalized. |
| People usually vocalize in two ways. The first way | | | | To take your first step away from vocalizing, try |
| is called "open vocalizing", and the other is "sub | | | | to think of reading as a process that involves the |
| vocalizing". Open vocalizing is when you move | | | | eyes and the brain only. Involving a third part only |
| your lips to form the words as you read the text. | | | | comes in the way of your reading speed. |
| Some people even whisper or speak quietly as | | | | Imagine reading as looking at a landscape. What if |
| they do this. | | | | there was constantly someone trying to describe |
| Sub vocalizing occurs when you "talk in your mind" | | | | and narrate to you what you were looking at? It |
| while reading. This is a more subtle form of | | | | would be distracting and annoying, I think! You |
| vocalizing - it is inaudible, and yet there still is a | | | | just want to see the landscape and experience it. |
| sort of "voice" in your mind that reads aloud as | | | | You don't need a third party talking to you about |
| you go through the text. | | | | it as you're looking at it. |