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๐Ÿš€ Oh, the audacity! ๐ŸŒŸ Apparently, mastering Chinese is a "speedrun" now, complete with a "Character Cyclotron" for turbocharging your literacy levels. ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿค– Bravo, dear author, for reducing the complexities of a rich language to a video game cheat code... next up: #fluency via Twitter-length summaries! ๐Ÿ™„
https://blog.kevinzwu.com/character-cyclotron/ #audacity #masteringchinese #speedrun #CharacterCyclotron #literacylevels #HackerNews #ngated
ไธญๆ–‡ Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron

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Show threadOf Bookish ThingsMar 26, 2025

@VeroniqueB99
I recently read about how over half of the American population is at Level 1 Literacy (Grade 6 or lower). Together with how low the population is in some States, Trump and American political outcomes makes lots of sense in a dark #Absurdist way.๐Ÿ˜– As a retired Canadian teacher (English, Developmental Literacy, Media Literacy, & Special Ed), I am struck with pity, despair, and anger. #America is being barely held together with spit and baling wire. Just how is it still standing?  

#Literacy #LiteracyLevels #LiteracyRates #LiteracyMatters #AmericanLiteracy #Reading #ReadingLevels #AmericanPolitics #AmericanPopulation

https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuaL9yM6xak

Reading the numbers: 130 million American adults have low literacy skills โ€” APM Research Lab

About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education. This means more than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 (54%) read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.

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