How many times do you read a book and not understand a word in it?
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Any time I read a book I don't understand it.\nBut how often do I read books? Lol
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Read the dictionary - randomly select a page, point to a random word, and then read its definition and use it in a sentence. Do 10 words per day - if you retain only one, you've learned one more word than you would have had you done nothing.
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Yes, I can be so much better understood with the written word. When I read I get lost in the lines inside the message. My fuel are the words that are spoken and written. Good question.....
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Same for me. It's difficult to read a book, articles, magazines and understand, to really grasp every word and sentence. But whenever i had to read something in school it took me a long time to get thought it, but i had no choice. I'm inpatient about it and it's hard to concentrate. Some things are harder to read than others. But right now I'm trying to read something I'm interested in and that's good cause reading something i don't like in the least in hell. I don't know what the problem is. I'm tired right now, so that probably doesn't help, but even in regular basis it's difficult for me to read. Assuming you have the same problem, I'm sorry but i don't know the answer to this except that i understand your difficulty and you asked if anyone had this problem too. :)
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Since I  hit forty it is not unusual to read a whole book while sitting on the john. After injesting my morning oatmeal yesterday I read War and Peace on the pot. \nWhen I was younger I could  barely get through a gum wrapper and I was up and outta there.
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how many times is this dumb question asked again and again?
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You read for one minute. Then you count the number of words you just read. The answer is your words per minute.  Depending on your ability level, how hard a reading passage will vary. I think in reading tests, a typical word might be as difficult as the words I have typed here.
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Yes, most of it because you can't understand what is going on without understanding that book.
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Read more books newspaper and if you don't understand a word look it up and also use a thesaurus.
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I've read the Bible all the way through at least 2 times, and I've studied it in other sections plenty more than that.\nI've read the Qur'an once.\nI've read the Bhagavad Gita probably twice, and I continue to read it regularly.  \nI've read the Tao Te Ching twice, in 2 different versions.  \nThe Dhammapada once.  \n\nI've read portions of the Rig Veda, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Baha'i writings, and others.\n\nMy religion is Hinduism.
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yes. this is what you said:\n\nI could not believe that I could actually understand what I was reading. The phenomenol power of the human mind, according to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place.\nThe rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole.\nAmazing huh? yeah and I always thought spelling was important!
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By reading books, magazines, listening to radio and other sources where other people use words you don't know or willing to know. \n\nWhen reading a book, take out the unknown words with the whole sentence. Understand its meaning and try to remember the context of the sentence.\n\nAnd next time when you talk to your buddies, try to use the word you just learned. Humans are fast learners. Give it a try.
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Used in several stories.  See if this is the right one.\n\n2nd one is the book:
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I always tell people that schools really not teach us to read. They teach word recognition. To read a person "Reads" it like breathing. When we see words, we automatically read what they say. Take a Message Board. When I see one the first time I stop and read everything on the board. The next time I walk by, I can scan the board for new posts and read only those. In a Doctors office I scan what magazines say on front and pick the most interesting to read as I wait, even if, it a Cosmopolitan. With this said; the characteristics of reading; Is actually reading, checking yourself on comprehension of what you read and retention of the material.
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I'm dyslexic too, and I know what you mean about wanting books that are easy to read.  I usually just read kids books even though I'm 19 and a freshman in college.  Actually, I mainly read whatever I have to read for school, but on the rare occasion that I do have time to read something else, I rarely finish anything that's not meant for kids.  I think the trick is just to find kids books that are complicated enough to still be interesting.\n\nI really like Harry Potter.  Those are more than 150 pages, but they're also the only book I can sit down and read like 12 hours a day and finish in 3 days.  \n\nThe Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card is also really good.  They're about a kid in the future who's taken to be trained as an elite soldier in to fight in space battles.  It's not as brutal as it sounds, though.  Most of the first books is mostly about his time at school, and all the battles that there are are very video-game-ish (actually, they basically are video games - you'll understand what I mean if you read it).\n\nIf you like science fiction, I really like Robert Heinlein's stuff.  His stuff isn't written for kids at all, but I've been able to read it since about 6th grade, which is really saying something, and I still enjoy it.  Most of his stuff is really short, too.  He has one really long book, which I still haven't been able to read, but that's the only one.\n\nI read a book called A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer a little while ago.  It's longer (over 450 pages), but it's written at about a 5th-6th grade reading level even though it's in no way a kids book.\n\nAnother great thing is books on tape.  CD's of recent stuff is sometimes really expensive, but if you go for classics that are out of copyright, you can get them even on iTunes for under $20.
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Just keep looking them over again. Write each definitions to the words over and over again. Just do your best and maybe plan for studying better next time.
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read everything if you do not understand a word look it up if you do not understand a concept or idea then research it try to use a new word everyday open your mind to new thoughts above all read