/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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RR is repeated reading.
you take one page, or even half a page of text (that you've already looked up words for if you need to) and read it all the way through while timing yourself - focusing on comprehension, not speed as you read. then you read it again 3 or 4 more times and watch your speed gains (it will naturally increase, don't force it). then pick another half-page or big paragraph of text and repeat this process. you can log times in a lil notebook.
basically reading the same block of text repeatedly trains your brain to find the most efficient ways to parse, without the cognitive load of new words or vocab each time. isolated skillbuilding.

chunking is just reading while processing chunks of text at a time, rather than word by word. for example this sentence:
オタクであることを隠して過ごしていくことを決意し、高校に入学する。

someone who's used to hyper-focusing on each word (most beginners and even some intermediates still do this) might literally parse it like this by default:
オタク・で・ある・こと・を・隠して・過ごしていく・こと・を・決意し、・高校・に・入学する。
even if you're doing this as fast as you can, it's more taxing on the brain because you're working with tiny pieces of meaning. it's like counting a pile of pebbles one by one instead of groups of ten.
you want to get into the habit of using those building blocks to form chunks of meaning on the fly. like this:
オタクであることを・隠して・過ごしていくことを・決意し、・高校に入学する。
makes reading more natural, more efficient, and allows meaning to be extracted more easily. we read like this in our native language without thinking about it.