Hello,

Fellow writers and scholars of the written word. I greet you with warm affection and a heart filled with a appreciation for your following and fellowship.

Are you listening to my words in your head?

Or

Are you a classical western learner who takes in knowledge by words alone.

For context sake:

Auditory learning is a learning style in which a person learns through listening. An auditory learner depends on listening and speaking as a main way of learning. – Google

I wasn’t taught that bit of knowledge in public school on my short span of time I spent in it. Neither was I graced with that bit in college even though that’s how I’ve always ever been successfully in the system learning anything.

This is something I knew about myself that when I’m reading I’m usually hearing the words in my head or when I’m studying something I’m usually repeating the information back to myself in my own voice or my internal voice to make the information more internalized to my thoughts.

Now is listening reading?

Not really. To read

Reading is the complex cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning. It is a form of language processing. – Wikipedia

On average I am a slow reader depending on whether the subject or story peeks my interest. On subjects like music, fiction, science fantasy, science fiction, action adventure etc. In short I’ve often read for fun and not so much to learn anything.

At an above average rate I can listen to several hours of content and take in more information more easily.

I’m not bragging because I haven’t determined if is or is not good method to be a person who learns naturally from reading or one who learns best from listening and hands on approach. The smartest and brightest stars of our generation and previous ones have all had common threads of being prolific readers. Thomas Sowell, Vox Day, Robert Frost, Ray Bradbury etc.

In any case it’s the way I learn. It’s the way I write. I know the mother tongue of English by the sound of her song and flow of a sentence if it can be spoken aloud with a clear ring to it.

L. M. Parker