Reading and Learning Methods and Tools

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Speedreading:

•   Speedreading and Related Skills— Column: Jan. 13, 1998
•  PhotoReading— Improved form of speedreading/speedlearning. The webmaster discovered the technique independently.
•  FReader— Computer program designed to improve reading skills, especially speed.
•  AceReader— Reading program to help you read faster while on the computer by utilizing special display modes, such as tachistoscopic rapid viewing.
•  Reading Acceleration Machine (RAM)— Freeware device for presenting word-groups sequentially at a pace chosen by the user. It is a tachistoscope ("rapid-viewer") that supports efficient and rhythmic reading, rehearsal of text-comprehension, and acceleration in reading speed.

Speedlearning:

•  SuperLearning— Improve learning skills for all ages.
•  Total Immersion language learning— Many schools do this. Here is one: Berlitz.
•  Memory Techniques and Mnemonics— Collection of methods for improving memory and practicing memorization.

Etymology and historical linguistic analysis:

•  Online Etymology Dictionary— Explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
•  Historical linguistics, Wikipedia article — Gateway to the subject.

Poetry analysis:

•  Meter and Scansion— Poetry Analysis
•  Versification— Poetic Analysis Terms