One million words read (French)

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@jt23 Compare this to me recently passing 1M words read in Russian, where I’ve only marked just over 1,000 words as Known, so I just got my Beginner 1 badge. The second million words read is faster than the first million. At my level in Russian, I’ll get my second million words read in maybe 125 hours (1M words / 8k words per hour) or perhaps slightly less.

This is my strategy to up my reading speed.

Don’t memorize vocabulary. Do this instead - Steve Kaufmann

Steve is saying that in his experience in mere volume/quantity of content is what he finds to be the biggest determining factor in vocabulary acquisition. This means we should be trying to consume as much content as we can. To do this, I’ve found: Listening to the audio while listening increases my reading speed (unless you are already a very advanced reader perhaps) Increasing the audio playback speed in turn increases this speed, as @PeterBormann advocates, when you become intermediate and a…