🔥 Learn languages like I do with LingQ: 🆓 My 10 FREE secrets to language learning: CC subtitles available in multiple languages. Can listening to books be as effective as reading them for learning? In this video, I'll explain why you don't have to choose just one. ⏲️ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Is listening as effective as reading? 0:27 Is reading better? 1:32 Audiobooks 3:10 To read or to listen 4:07 How reading and listening reinforce each other 6:39 Literacy strategies 📌SOURCES: 1. Why Listening to a Book Is Not the Same as Reading It: 2. They Hear, But Do Not Listen: Retention for Podcasted Material in a Classroom Context: 3. Investigating differences in general comprehension skill: 4. U.S. Audiobook Sales Hit $2 Billion in 2024: 5. Is Listening to a Book the Same Thing as Reading It? 📺 WATCH NEXT: 🎙️ LISTEN TO MY PODCAST: Soundcloud: Apple: Google: Spotify: 💡 LEARN MORE: Get my 10 Secrets of Language Learning: Download my FREE grammar guides: Join the LingQ Discord server: Read my language learning blog on The Linguist: Read the LingQ language learning blog: ✅ FOLLOW ME: My Instagram page: My TikTok: @lingosteve