Do you subvocalize when reading? My whole life people have noticed my slow reading speed because I have this habit.
>>25332460Yes. And when I try to turn it off it just feels like nothing is registering.
"Speedreaders" who do not subvocalize are retarded faggots who retain zero information, or they are so woefully braindead they have no internal monologue whatsoever.
>>25332460Depends on if I'm focusing on what I'm reading or not.
>>25332460This is like hearing about aphantasia for the first time. People are capable of not doing this?
Sometimes I wish I didn't subvocalize so much. Like when I'll have a song stuck in my head my throat will get sore.
>>25332460Yes and it's factually better for understanding. When possible I just read out loud, which is even better.
I do it if the dialogue is pulling me in so that I want to hear it "acted" in my head but normally I choose to read at the speed of my comprehension because why wouldn't I.
Of course, why wouldn't I? Reading slowly is better than reading fast.
>>25332460If the text is very simple or if I’ve read it before I’ll subvocalize. But I’ve just given up on reading speed and just embraced the vocalization and visualization
>>25332460I enjoy chewing my food.
>>25332460When I'm having trouble parsing text, which is not too often.
>>25332460I read aloud so I don't forget how to speak from lack of socialization.
>>25332460Subvocalisation and direct visualisation/transmission serve different purposes. Someone who subvocalises is going to have a better grasp on the aspects of writing indexed by the voice, more specifically tone and things like rhyme, metre, onomatopoeia, play-on-words, etc.. If you’re not sounding out the phonemes and trying to internalise the rhythm of poetry, for example, you’re doing it wrong.Direct visualisation is useful for reading imagistic descriptions and narrative sequencing, which is why it’s best suited for reading prose. Obviously these distinctions are quite fluid, and being able to do both will give you a far more enriched understanding of the text. But it’s silly to think that one is superior to the other
I force myself to subvocalise when I'm reading in my TLs but with English I am typically too lazy to do it
>>25332460a lot one time my ma caught me silently talking with myself and got really worried and started thinking i am a headcase, fugi don't read physical books now
>>25332460How do you read without voicing it in your head? That makes no sense
Yes, I don't know how not to. I've tried in the past to stop doing it but I can't.
>>25332824That's weird. I don't remember writing this...
>>25332460I can read without subvocalising but when I do I hardly remember anything so generally I don't.
like a lot of anons said, I can't really imagine reading without having the words in my head, that sounds just like skimming over the text, or not really reading at all.
>>25332824this is so real
>>25332460I subvocalize and I read out loud, and everyone else is a fucking chimp. Speedread deez nuts.
>>25332824How many times this week did you respond out loud to an imaginary conversation partner? Be honest.
>>25332460Last time I checked i don't look to Cambodian crab fishing forums for approval. Who the fuck cares?
>>25332460Yes because when I read I want to feel like I'm present in the scene so I vocalize the words and try to intonate with the same emotional intensity that I believe the characters are feeling and visualize the scene and action taking place.It pulls me into the book and I don't care how slow of a reader that makes me.
>>25332460The biggest factor for reading speed is what you're reading. If you like it, and it's easy to read, like a novel, I'll fly through it regardless of subvocalization. But there's two kinds in my experience. The first is part of regular thinking as I read. Like I have an awareness of the phonetics of what I read. The other one is intentionally reading 'aloud' in my mind, which lets me read faster, but is bad for retention the same way as when you read aloud to another person, focusing on reading correctly rather than the content.
When I really get into a book I start reading it fast and dont read it in my head, its not really something you do consciously
>>25332460>Do you like to enjoy the taste of your food when eating? Or do you just eat for the nourishment?
>>25332460What are your thoughts if you dont think like you verbalize?Is it like seeing a bird and just seeing it without having any expressed thought about it? Seems a bit animal like. Ill remain a superior zoon logon echon.
>>25332460unless I'm just skimming through some useless babble, yes
