What should I do when I see full English? The problem of "learning English for many years, but just can't read it" puzzles many people, especially those who have to read a lot of English materials due to work and study needs. A way to improve the efficiency of English reading has become popular on the Internet these days. Many netizens said after the experience: it's amazing. It's too late to meet.
This method is called bionic reading The operation is also very simple, that is, bold the first few letters of each word, and now you can try it*
In addition to speeding up, it can also reduce the resistance of reading English.
This method was first popular on twitter, and then blogger @ Mu Yao shared it on Weibo and quickly received 50000 forwarding.
For foreign netizens whose native language is English, some people think it is super effective, others think it is completely useless, and even feel it slows down. But to domestic netizens, from the overall feedback of comments and forwarding, it is "overwhelmingly effective".
Only a few netizens feel that it is not applicable to them. Maybe they read it very quickly?
Is it reasonable that the method of reading English is more suitable for Chinese people? Liu Nuoya, an expert in Huawei's Fangzhou District, thinks that it is reasonable for him to comment on the appearance of NLP in Huawei's Fangzhou district.
In fact, the inventor of this method was first inspired by the experience of reading a foreign language.
The brain reads faster than the eyes
Bionic reading was invented by Swiss font designer Renato casutt.
Switzerland has four official languages. 62.6% of the people speak German, only 0.5% speak the local Romansh, and Renato's mother tongue is also German. (others speak French and Italian) there are many borrowed words from German in Romansh today. They may look similar to German, but the ending is slightly deformed.
Renato noticed when reading Romansh once that the brain can remember the corresponding German words only by looking at the first few letters. So he read the first few letters of each word in bold again and found that he could understand some of the Romansh articles he didn't know very well.
At that time, he was still in school. When he tried this method to his classmates, he found that it was not only effective for him, but also many people reported that the speed of reading their mother tongue became faster. After referring to a lot of scientific research related to eye movement and brain, Renato summarized this phenomenon as "your brain reads faster than your eyes".
Memorized words only need the first few letters to be recognized. Emphasizing these letters can guide your attention and ignore unnecessary parts
On the one hand, it improves the reading speed, on the other hand, it saves attention resources and makes people read more effortlessly. In subsequent experiments, it was found that this method can also help people with dyslexia improve their reading ability.
Later, Renato set up a team to develop bionic reading service, which can be integrated into other software through API. In addition to the basic functions, the number of bold letters can also be adjusted according to different needs.
And adjust the frequency of bold between words.
How to use
At present, there are three main reading software integrated with bionic reading.
They are RSS readers on IOS / Mac, which aggregate information from different places through subscription.
For other platforms, you can use the browser plug-ins developed by domestic netizens.
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After installation, open a paper on arXiv, which is the effect.
With the "ar5iv" we introduced not long ago, you can also view the full text of the paper directly in the browser.
It's also a sharp weapon to knock salt ~
Is it useful for Chinese?
Bionic reading is so magical, but it seems to work only for languages with alphabetic spelling. But how to use Chinese? You can't use bold radicals, can you? At this time, some netizens thought that bold keywords are often used in Chinese typesetting. yes.
Bionic reading official website:
Browser plug-in: