blog! “Not everyone is as good at reading and writing as you are”
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blog! “Not everyone is as good at reading and writing as you are”
It may be hard for you to understand this; reading is a skill. Unless you have recently started learning a new language with an unfamiliar writing system, you probably do not remember the tedious and agonising process of having to train your brain to recognise printed characters. Extracting mean…
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@Edent I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, but speaking and listening can be just as hard, depending on the specific people and contexts involved. I tend to complain a whole lot about vocal messages because they're genuinely hard for me to understand.
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Šime Vidasreplied to Terence Eden last edited by [email protected]
@Edent On a related note, I have found that when it comes to topics that I know a lot about, I much prefer text, because it allows me to quickly skip over all the parts that I already know in search for new information, but for all other topics, I prefer video, because it allows me to just sit back and take it all in more effortlessly (and I can increase the playback speed if the “information rate” is too low).