Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
Reading out loud is tiring, even when you're used to it.
i agree, it is. but you also get used to it, the more you do it, until you can do it without straining yourself in the slightest.
All I can say is that I never managed to get so used to it that my throat didn't hurt when I'd finished reading for the day, and I read aloud almost every day for at least an hour a day for most of my childhood. Certainly there's a learning curve to learning to read aloud, but that's mostly neurological; you need to learn how to read ahead with your eyes, to plan emphasis, while your mouth is reading an earlier sentence, and to jump back smoothly to your place in time to start your mouth off on the next sentence. But mastering that doesn't help any with tiredness, or with your throat's getting sore.
then i guess you must have had sufficient motivation of some kind.
Well, yes, I liked the book well enough to spend time reading it to my mother.
ya know, if you would have recorded yourself the first time you did it, you wouldn't have had to read it out loud again the second time...
I don't think my mother would have stood for listening to a tape recorder instead of listening to me, and I shudder to think how many 45-minutes-on-a-side tapes it would have filled.
p.s. i see your signature-block promotes a book you've written. No, it promotes one of my websites. No book is involved.
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