Quick reading without pronunciation. Speed ​​reading course from myth

Articulation problem. Articulation - pronouncing the text - is a significant element of reading. Articulation helps give sound to the words you read. As a phenomenon, articulation has its pros and cons.

Pros of articulation: articulation allows us to improve our speech and understand how words sound. It is very important when reading poetry and fiction.

Cons of articulation: articulation greatly slows down reading, and to a lesser extent helps to quickly understand the meaning of what is read and extract from the text necessary information.

No matter how useful articulation is, it is a hindrance for reading information material. As a result of reciting the text we read to ourselves, we spend much more time than we would spend if we were simply aware of it by simply seeing the text and creating visual images of what we read in our heads.

You don’t need to completely get rid of articulation; it’s just important to be able to suppress it at the right time to speed up your reading.

When do you read without articulation? There are people who are initially able to suppress articulation when reading; these people have well-developed visual skills and imagination. In principle, you most likely also sometimes read with minimal articulation. Remember, for example, when you read interesting book with an exciting plot or unique portrait descriptions, you might not pay attention to the words and their sound. You read the text and at the same time imagined what was happening, built pictures in your imagination, as if you were watching a film of your own production. If at a certain stage of reading a book your attention was occupied precisely by the creation of images, the play of imagination, then at that moment, most likely, you read faster than usual.

With this reading the emphasis shifts from auditory to visual images, which are perceived more quickly by the human brain. In practice, getting rid of articulation is the most important step for speeding up reading. Only this technique alone, without using the others, will help to seriously increase your reading speed. Additionally, silent reading is the basis for the visual reading exercises discussed in LESSON 3.

Exercises 2.1. Alternative text

First, try to feel how you perceive the text without articulation. While reading, instead of reciting the text you are reading to yourself, try to recite sequences of words that you know well.

Nonsense. You can start by saying to yourself (or out loud) some sound combinations that are usually used by popular singers: tra-ta-ta, la-la-la, and so on. At the same time as this recitative, try to understand the content of the text you are reading. Take a simpler book and train yourself to understand the meaning of the text, preventing yourself from pronouncing it by saying the nonsense you have chosen.

Phrases. Various proverbs, poems, songs, tongue twisters also help a lot, the main thing is that they are spoken readable text as inconvenient or even impossible for you.

Exercises 2.5. PhotoReading Game

The essence of the training is to look through texts as quickly as possible without articulation. First, you will be presented with a simple text, which you must read carefully and remember in a very short allotted time (about a couple of seconds). In such a short period of time, you do not have time to read the entire text “to yourself” and you have to quickly “skim” it. Then you mark the correct answer in your opinion to the questions asked in the text.

You will then be shown the next more complex text. Gradually, the texts become larger and richer in information. If you make a mistake, you lose a life and start collecting answers all over again, but at the same level. Affects your results total time, number of errors, difficulty and number of correct answers.

Do the exercises until you achieve your goal - the ability to read text without pronouncing (articulation). Then move on to the next lesson. However, do not always try to read “silently”, as articulation also has its positive sides.

Suppression speaking the text is one of the most effective methods. The problem with enunciation, or articulation, is that it greatly slows down reading, and at the same time makes it difficult to quickly identify the necessary information from the text.

Articulation has pros— it allows you to improve your speech and better understand how certain words sound. Given useful property helps, for example, when studying, or when reading poetry.

But articulation is not suitable for informational reading. It is much better and faster not to pronounce the text to yourself, but to create mental images.

Remember how you read an interesting fiction book with exciting plots and colorful descriptions. In this case, you most likely imagined everything figuratively, not paying attention to the words. Reading in this way becomes like creating a movie that you mentally view. With this figurative reading, the speed increases significantly.

To suppress articulation, you can use the speech interference method. The essence of this method is to tap a rhythmic beat with your fingers.

Here it is necessary to make a small digression. The fact is that scientists have found out one interesting thing - a person’s speech and his reading abilities are very strongly related to the development of his fingers. In Japan, for example, children begin finger training at two years of age. Scientists believe that finger exercises stimulate mental development. The more developed the movements of the fingers, the more developed their speech.

In ancient times, in primitive times, people communicated exclusively with the help of gestures - the development of speech occurred later, or at least occurred simultaneously. The child also repeats this path - first the movements of the fingers are improved, and only then the child begins to pronounce the first words.

In humans, the centers responsible for finger movements and speech perception are located nearby. Thus, tapping a certain rhythm with your fingers blocks the speech center, and the person stops pronouncing words to himself.

In addition, reading speed also affects the suppression of mental pronunciation of words. At high speeds, the brain simply does not have time to do this.

Thus, in order to suppress articulation and develop your speed reading skills, you should read the text in a certain way:

• Start hitting rhythm with fingers , for example, use the index and middle fingers alternately, and read the text at the same time. On impact index finger fix your gaze on the beginning of the line; when striking with your middle finger, fix your gaze on the end of the line. The next hit is the beginning of a new line, and so on. Choose the pace as fast as possible, but such that you understand and assimilate the material read. Also make sure that the pace is even.
• Exercise regularly , constantly increasing speed. After some time, you may notice that it is inconvenient for you to fix your gaze on the beginning and end of the line. The gaze begins to slide as if on its own, in a wave-like manner. Let your gaze glide over the text in the way that is most convenient for you, without slowing down the sliding speed. If your reading speed decreases, return to the initial rigid gaze fixation.
• Don't forget about other ways to develop speed reading. For example, to improve peripheral vision, work with.
• Read in this way as much and often as possible. During classes, watch the movements of your lips and tongue - they should not move. Typically, to consolidate the skill of accelerated reading without pronouncing text, approximately 20 hours of training using this method are required. After you learn to read without pronunciation, you can stop beating the rhythm with your fingers - you will no longer need this auxiliary tool.

In conclusion, a wonderful program for developing speed reading, which applies all the principles outlined above. You can download this program from the link:

The rhythm in it is beat by a metronome, the speed of which you can change. The text is loaded into the program, which you then read, fixing your gaze on the beginning and end of the lines in accordance with the beats of the metronome, while the necessary points of fixation of your gaze will be highlighted.

This program is free, lightweight, does not require installation, and does not make any entries in the registry.

Text can be loaded from a file, or from the clipboard. To load text from a file, you need to go to File - Open , and to load copied text into the program, you must first copy it, and then select the item File - Read from buffer . After that, click on the button Start, or select a menu item Start .

Changing the speed of the metronome is achieved by moving the weight on its pendulum, or by changing the parameters in the paragraph Mode - Speed .

Enjoy your training!

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Rule four: read without articulation!

Research has shown that there are three ways to read. The first is articulation, or speaking the text out loud. The speed is obviously low. The second method is silent reading, in which there is no open articulation, external speech is transformed into internal speech. The meaning is absorbed much better this way, and in this case speed reading is possible. But most effective method- this is reading with maximum compression of internal speech, when it is reduced to keywords and semantic series.

As we have already said, articulation slows down the reading process and needs to be eliminated. But will increased reading speed and reduced articulation harm reading comprehension?

Psychologists say that sometimes when reading, words are replaced by visual images, diagrams, and entire groups of words are replaced by one word.

Fast readers immediately grasp the author's intention without speaking the text out loud, and then assimilate it at the level of internal speech. At the same time, despite the high reading speed, understanding and assimilation of the text will be of high quality - after all, the main idea is clear from the very beginning. It is quite possible to learn this.

You probably know that depending on the prevailing way of perceiving information, people are divided into two types - auditory and visual. Auditory learners remember better by hearing, while visual learners remember better with the help of visual images. This is also reflected in the reading process: visual learners read silently and use visual images, while auditory learners use articulation. And this is, of course, a less productive way. That is why among people who read quickly on their own, the overwhelming majority are visual. But others shouldn't despair. Any person can be taught to reduce articulation and use a code of visual images when reading.

So, even if you read silently, this does not mean that you have a complete lack of articulation. Perhaps it simply transformed into inner speech. That is, you yourself are not aware of the fact that while reading you are speaking to yourself a significant part of the text. How to reduce inner speech to a minimum?

First you need to understand what inner speech is. This is speech that does not serve the purposes of communication, but serves only thinking. For example, you try on several shirts in a store. You say to yourself: “No, this one is too wide... Let’s try this blue one... The sleeves are short!... Who are they sewing them for, after all?!”

Sometimes there are “thoughts out loud” - this is nothing more than internal speech, a hidden form of external speech. By the way, children do not know how to think to themselves at all; they do not immediately develop a mechanism for converting external speech into internal speech.

But more often than not, inner speech ceases to be speech at all. It contains not sounds and words, but visual images, diagrams, and so on. This is very easy to prove by rhythmically tapping a pencil on the table. External speech is more developed in time; we pronounce words in a certain sequence and spend a fraction of a second on each of them. If you start tapping monotonously while a person is speaking out loud, he will get confused. It’s the same when reading – a person pronounces the words to himself and also gets confused. But if we are just thinking about something and at the same time beating a rhythm, tapping will not interfere with us. This means that internal speech does not have such an extension in time as external speech. Speech seems to dissolve inside us, breaking down into images and patterns. Based on this, it is possible to form new system recoding the meaning of a text by the human brain, based on the use of vivid visual images.

We have found that only a reduction in articulation can provide true speed reading. How can this be achieved? The most effective exercise there will be a tapping rhythm. This is what it is. You read to yourself and at the same time tap out a special rhythm with a pencil, which is not typical for Russian speech. It consists of a three-part tapping with four short beats in the first part and two long beats in each subsequent part. At the first sound of each part, the beat intensifies.

Such a rhythm becomes an obstacle to any articulation - both external and internal. You may ask: do people who read quickly keep rhythm while reading? Of course not. At the very least, it would look strange. It is enough to practice repeatedly and read a total of 20 hours with a tapping rhythm to new program reading without speaking was formed.

The main thing in classes is to learn the rhythm accurately, and then tap it until it is completely memorized. It is very important to beat the rhythm yourself, with your own hand, and to control its correctness yourself. This must be observed because in the human body, hand movements are inextricably linked with the speech apparatus. We won’t go into complex scientific explanations, just take it as a given. You can read the text with tapping only after you have learned the rhythm.

With systematic implementation of the exercise and a sufficient amount of training, almost everyone will be able to achieve desired result and learn to read without articulation. Let's move on directly to the exercises.

The rhythm is beaten out with a pencil held in three fingers right hand, if you are right-handed. A left-handed person must tap out the rhythm with both hands at the same time, since his speech motor zone is located in both hemispheres of the cerebral cortex. The rhythm is tapped on the hard surface of the table with blows to one point, firmly, clearly, confidently. You need to beat the rhythm with an active movement of the whole arm, and not just the hand. The main thing is not to get confused and not to pause in tapping while reading.

Exercise 1. Checking the rhythm

When you think you have the rhythm memorized, try beating it continuously for 2-3 minutes. Are you getting lost? Great. Now you can experiment. Start tapping out a rhythm, and then read some text out loud. Does not work? That's how it should be. It is impossible to read aloud and beat out a rhythm at the same time. Now start beating the rhythm again and read the same text, but to yourself. You should be able to do it, but reading will be very slow, and it’s difficult to get to the meaning. This is quite natural. Go ahead.

Exercise 2. Fighting articulation

You need to read every day for at least a week simple texts with tapping for an hour or an hour and a half. You are not tasked with completely understanding the text, the main thing is to perform the exercise correctly. Do this reading for 10–15 minutes several times a day. And one more thing - be sure to tap the rhythm before going to bed. By the end of the week you should have read 8-10 hours this way.

Then move on to reading newspaper articles with tapping. Read them 2-3 a day and try to understand the meaning of the text.

Then take a text of 8 thousand characters, read it with a rhythm. After completing the reading, continue tapping, close your eyes and try to summarize the essence of the text by answering the questions of the integral reading algorithm.