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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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The Benefits of Reading Aloud

There's some evidence that many of us are intuitively aware of the benefits of reading aloud. People with early Alzheimer's disease were found to be more likely than others to make certain errors when reading aloud. Some said they read out funny emails or messages to entertain others. Others read aloud prayers and blessings for spiritual reasons. Writers and translators read or read. There's a tricky thing with the verb read because it's read read read read, of course,. But the spelling is the same, which is a confusing thing about the English language. It seems that it works part of the brain that probably need to be regularly stimulated.

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