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| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5038 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 9 of 24 22 January 2015 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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In French over the last 38 weeks I've read 51.15 pages per week or ~12,790 words per week or 1,827.06 per day.
In Italian over the last 38 weeks I've read 42.84 pages per week or 2142.10 words per week or 306.02 per day. (Yeah super challenge!) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4335 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 10 of 24 22 January 2015 at 2:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have bursts of reading, but my general aim is to read about 30/pages of a novel per day, which works out as 10000 pages/year.
In addition I try to read at least one or two articles in the newspaper each day. So I guess somewhere between 7500-12000 words per day. I am amazed at how much more people are reading in their TL. I am just not a fast reader I guess. Edited by patrickwilken on 22 January 2015 at 2:19pm 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 11 of 24 22 January 2015 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | ||
I don't count page totals either. I just count like, how quickly I read on average, because it gives me a good idea of how well I can read in that language compared to my native tongue(s). My general Dutch/English speed is about 100 pages an hour, a little more if I'm really in the zone. In my good languages, I can read about that fast (for example most novels in French I can read at a speed of 80-90 pages an hour, almost close to my native - in Swedish and German I also hit similar values, and in Romanian I'm not far off. I'm also getting better at reading Russian at that speed). That's simply how I get a gut feeling for whether I need to put more effort into certain parts of the language or not. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6711 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 24 22 January 2015 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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On a normal day, I read for at least 15 minutes in most of my languages, currently Swedish, English, Danish, Norwegian, German... Russian.
Considering my reading speed (I read up to three pages per minute in strong languages - Swedish/(Danish/Norwegian)/English - and at least one page per minute in other languages) that means a lot of words. Like Tarvos and others I really don't count pages, I just know how fast I read. I add every title to a document and who knows, maybe I'll count how many words I've read by the end of 2015. Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 22 January 2015 at 6:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 4861 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew | Message 13 of 24 23 January 2015 at 6:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd like to read more than I do, because I find it to be really effective. I didn't use to read a lot, but I'm trying to fix
that. So far this month I have read four and a half books, probably about 1300 pages, in Latin, English, German, Portuguese, and German. I also have to do a couple hundred pages of technical reading in English, but I'm not going to count that. 1 page per minute in a strong language with comfortable content and few distractions. Usually slower. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6399 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 14 of 24 23 January 2015 at 8:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Embarrassingly few on many days (if you count only books and not twitter etc).
I've been thinking of starting a mini-habit (Expugnator posted a link to this site)... but I actually find that as of now I can't think of a reason to read a little every single day. Also, one important point here is that the article mentions "reading 1 page" as an easy goal, but that's about reading in L1. Especially in a weak language an easy goal can be more like reading 1 paragraph or half a page. Edited by Serpent on 23 January 2015 at 8:53am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michel1020 Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4819 days ago 365 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Dutch | Message 15 of 24 23 January 2015 at 9:12am | IP Logged | ||
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My goal is to reach 42 714 words a day, however I stop at the last sentence before this magic number. I think this shows how interested I am in what I read.
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| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5110 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 16 of 24 23 January 2015 at 12:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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During the last 6WC, on the 9 days I did read, I read:
15 16 26 36 55 89 101 193 255 minutes each day. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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