Reading and listening: A difference?

[Brotherly Spirit]

https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/listening-to-a-book-instead-of-reading-isnt-cheating.html

This week I tried read-along on Youtube as a substitute to reading the Bible alone. Videos shown what was being read aloud. Big difference is following the pace of the reader and listening when you read. So it requires your full attention trying to get the major points, then after go back yourself skimming and noting what's important. Also later thinking more about it through the day. Very different then reading it partially and slowly for more thought then and there along with notes.

Above linked article mentions there's not much difference. Both require attention and memorization for processing what's said or read. Any major difference is irrelevant after late elementary (fifth grade) as the additional step of processing words becomes second nature.

Notice any differences personally, is it easier for you to read or listen?

 

[Kevin Snow]

When I'm reading I am listening. So I think it's far easier to hear yourself read it than to hear someone else read it. In fact many times it can be distracting because they pause at all the wrong moments.

 

[Halbhh]

https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/listening-to-a-book-instead-of-reading-isnt-cheating.html

This week I tried read-along on Youtube as a substitute to reading the Bible alone. Videos shown what was being read aloud. Big difference is following the pace of the reader and listening when you read. So it requires your full attention trying to get the major points, then after go back yourself skimming and noting what's important. Also later thinking more about it through the day. Very different then reading it partially and slowly for more thought then and there along with notes.

Above linked article mentions there's not much difference. Both require attention and memorization for processing what's said or read. Any major difference is irrelevant after late elementary (fifth grade) as the additional step of processing words becomes second nature.

Notice any differences personally, is it easier for you to read or listen?

Reading can be listening, but wonderfully you can pause, reflect, dwell with the words.

I hear the words as I read often, especially in the gospels as Christ speaks. Nothing in this world is better.

 

[Brotherly Spirit]

First it's difficult to listen while reading it, but eventually it gets easier. Similar to sitting in a classroom listening to a teacher speaking about the subject. Many years ago in school it's what I did, except for the part about reading lol.

Though listening is easier casually than any reading, I think it's easier for me to read going my own pace. Except I believe both are valuable skills to have for communication and information. In the very old days before most were literate and the printing press, people had to orally learn from others and ask them questions.

 

[faroukfarouk]

"Take heed ...how ye hear" (Luke 8.18)