Which reads faster, Chinese or English?

Re:Which reads faster, Chinese or English? by harbud on Thursday December 22, 2011 @05:58AM (#3381132)

Off topic: I started learning Chinese a few years ago when I was already an adult, and my Chinese reading speed is still stuck below 150 WPM, while my English, also non-native language, is around 500 WPM. Any tip to increase it? Recently tried flash reading exercises like the aforementioned spreeder.com, seems to help a bit.

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Re:Which reads faster, Chinese or English? by gcao on Thursday December 22, 2011 @09:57AM (#3381680)

IMHO, the best way to improve reading speed is to read more and more. Once you know more words and can tell their meanings in shorter time, you read faster. There is a chinese idiom for it: 熟能生巧

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Re:Which reads faster, Chinese or English? by harbud on Thursday December 22, 2011 @07:09PM (#3383939)

Thanks! Although over time I've also come to accept that I will never be near as fast as the natives (or people who learn to read from when they were a child).

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