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Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende
Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
- Prologue to ?The Canterbury Tales? by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1400 CE)
Unless you?re already a student of English literature, you probably had a hard time reading this excerpt at your usual speed. That?s because it?s full of words you don?t know ? or rather it?s full of words you do know, but they?re all in their Middle English spellings. For example, ?shoures soote? actually means ?sweet showers? (as in rain showers, common to English springs past and present). Once you do know the words and can recognize them, suddenly reading even this archaic text is easy. We?ve used this as a somewhat extreme example of an important aspect of speed reading practice: vocabulary development.
Every time you come across an unfamiliar word when you?re reading, it will slow you down. If you can?t understand the sentence or paragraph because you don?t know the word, that slows you down even farther. Sometimes it?s easy to figure out what a new word means, and other times the rest of the phrase is clear enough that you get the sense of what the author is saying even if you don?t know the exact definition of that unfamiliar word. However, if you have to look up a word to continue, or worse, take the time to re-read a section of a document so that you can understand what it means, your reading speed will suffer.
The more words you know, the faster you?ll read. It?s as simple as that. When you come across a word you don?t know, invest a minute or two into looking it up and learning it. That?ll save you time in the future when you encounter that word again. A better vocabulary helps you read more quickly, which means you?ll find even more new words, which will in turn give you the power to read faster still. When you improve your vocabulary, you?re becoming a better speed reader at the same time.
Source: http://www.7speedreading.com/spring-ahead-in-your-reading-with-new-vocabulary
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