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Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Post by houshuang »

Not sure if this is worth the effort, but brilliant approach to learning. I've often had fun playing with inventing my own alphabets and stuff -- if you could actually learn to read this font at a decent speed, it would be fun to click a bookmarklet anytime you wanted some privacy :)

I love reading, and I read pretty fast - I've often thought that the existing approach in most textbooks where they give you a short (5-10 line text) with tons of new words and grammar, and then when you're done working through that, give you a new one with a ton of new words, is non-ideal. Once I'm done learning all the new words, you should give me five pages with text that only uses the words I've already learnt, to "fix" it - and to give me a feeling of mastery...

Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Post by trogdoro »

houshuang wrote: post #5

Not sure if this is worth the effort, but brilliant approach to learning. I've often had fun playing with inventing my own alphabets and stuff -- if you could actually learn to read this font at a decent speed, it would be fun to click a bookmarklet anytime you wanted some privacy :) I love reading, and I read pretty fast - I've often thought that the existing approach in most textbooks where they give you a short (5…

Very interesting thoughts!

> it would be fun to click a bookmarklet

You can grab a bookmarklet for this at dotsies.org (the blue button).

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