I Was Wrong About Speed Reading: Here Are the Facts
When you are learning a new language and in the beginner to intermediate chasm, reading in your native language is like speed reading compared to reading in your new language. It depends on the context of what you are reading, of course but it can be 10x - 100x slower.<p>However, many polyglots write in most articles about reading in a new language about one of two approaches:<p>1) Reading and understanding everything (to the point of dictionary lookups ad nauseam) 
2) Skimming the text as fast as possible to build your pattern &#x2F;phrase recognition abilities.<p>I wonder what applying speed reading techniques to reading a new language would do. Would it help you &quot;skim&quot; faster? Skimming the text of the new language as fast as possible is still pretty slow. Does anyone have experience with reading quickly&#x2F;reading a lot to build their new language ability?