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| Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6926 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes  Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish | Message 1 of 24 22 January 2015 at 12:25am | IP Logged |
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Just curious, really, and of course interested to see how I stack up!
I'd estimate I'm reading anywhere between 1000 (on a slow day, or one where I'm focusing mainly on listening or writing) to 6000. I feel like I could bring this number way up, and I'm wondering how you all are faring with your reading. Do you have a certain goal per day? How much emphasis are you currently putting on reading as opposed to other skills? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| IarllTroseddwr Newbie United States Joined 3461 days ago 23 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 24 22 January 2015 at 1:58am | IP Logged |
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I'm not so sure about words, but I have been keeping track of the number of pages read since the start of the Tadoku Challenge. From what I gather online, in English, 250 words is considered average (I assume for paperback novel type books?). I've been reading Spanish, so I'm not sure the equivalent. My goal is to average about 100 pages per day for the entire month. I was doing fairly well and hit my mark for the first 10 days this month and was able to finish 2 and half books by the halfway point. Then reality hit and I realized that I don't like reading novels and the numbers really started to drop if I wasn't making a conscious effort. Thankfully, reading two books at once with different types of stories has helped me keep things interesting, as well as including manga.
Even if you're reading slower than you would like, the important thing is to keep on reading! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4151 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 3 of 24 22 January 2015 at 2:05am | IP Logged |
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That's a really interesting question. I thought about calculating how many words a day I read in
English, but never got around to it. I'll give it a try tomorrow. As of now, I can approximate how many words daily was I reading during my extensive reading attempt/phase in Japanese: 702 pages/70 days*185 words per page= ~1855 words a day. The number of words per page in the books I was reading varied from 160 to 250, so I settled on 185 words per page, just to be on the safe side. I'd be interested in the relation between pages read per day, and reading speed though. Being able to read more quickly can improve comprehension, and boost motivation to keep reading (just as higher comprehension). At the beginning, I read about 30 WPM, and by the end, closer to 60 WPM. Edited by Ezy Ryder on 22 January 2015 at 2:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 3809 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 24 22 January 2015 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
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I aim for 20 pages a day, so roughly 5,000 words a day. Some days it is more, some days it is less, but on
average, that is about right. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5177 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 5 of 24 22 January 2015 at 3:05am | IP Logged |
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I track my reading in terms of words read instead of pages or books. I found that the amount of words per page varied way too much depending on the book. For example, I have a Spanish version of the second Hunger Games book here that has half the amount of pages as The Firm by John Grisham but the same amount of words. They have the same amount of words, but the Grisham book has twice as many pages. Keeping track by words is the most accurate and objective way. It is fairly easy to get a good estimate of words in each book. In terms of setting reading goals I think counting words is the way to go. I am targeting 1,000,000 words in novels for the year and that should be pretty easy. That's on about 30-40 minutes a day.
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| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 3901 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 6 of 24 22 January 2015 at 10:17am | IP Logged |
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I only have reading goals when I pick up a book from the library, in which case I aim to read at least as much as is necessary to finish the book within three weeks.
Right now I'm reading Belle du Seigneur, which is 900 pages, so I am aiming to read on average 40 pages per day. Since the paperback edition is well over 1000 pages, I'm guessing my huge hardback is around 300 words per page, which comes to a reading goal of 12,000 words per day. But I read plenty of other things in French too, online, that I don't count. That's just right now, though. Most books I pick up from the library are around 3-400 pages, which at 250 words per page comes to more like 4,200 words per day. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4509 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 7 of 24 22 January 2015 at 12:57pm | IP Logged |
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I measure pages not words, and I can read insane amounts in a day in my better languages.
If I have the time, hundreds of pages in a day is not uncommon. Otherwise, it's more 50- 100 pages, dependent on which language it is that I'm reading and who the author is. I also don't read different books at the same time - I move on only after I've finished a book. Edited by tarvos on 22 January 2015 at 12:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5064 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 8 of 24 22 January 2015 at 1:37pm | IP Logged |
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I don't count, words or pages. I couldn't tell you how many words I've read in any language. I just read. The last book I read in Spanish was "Dispara, yo ya estoy muerto" by Julia Navarro. I read it on my kindle. I saw that the hard copy says it has 904 pages. I just knew that it was a looong book. It took me a couple of weeks to finish it. I also read throughout the day when I get the chance in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino and Haitian Creole.
Perhaps word-counting is more important if you have a goal in a language, but not for me. I just read, a lot. The words seem to take care of themselves- however many there are. Edited by iguanamon on 22 January 2015 at 1:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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