Whenever I read anything, it&#x27;s as if I&#x27;m actually have a conversation. Every single word is spoken in my head with the real tone and intonation that I would expect if somebody were telling me a story in a coffee shop.<p>I&#x27;ve always assumed that this is because I&#x27;m a very audible learner. When I&#x27;m paying attention to somebody who is talking, I tend to have a hard time focussing on anything else. For example, I&#x27;ll miss turns driving if my wife is talking to me in the car unless I&#x27;m just actively ignoring her. As a result, she knows if we&#x27;re following directions not to talk to me about anything because if I don&#x27;t miss the turn, I wasn&#x27;t listening to her. :-)<p>The side effect of this is that I don&#x27;t read particularly quickly. I can if I make myself but it&#x27;s like the voice in my head becomes the Micro Machine guy. I read at about the speed I&#x27;d expect somebody to talk.<p>I tend to write the same way. If it doesn&#x27;t &quot;sound right&quot; I have to keep editing the sentence.