It has been a practice of reading books from your childhood. After the existence of the internet people changed to various dimensions of learning like watching videos and hearing audios. But it is nice to read a book where you can improve your vocabulary and reading skills. As the days pass audiobooks were used by many people and it has changed the lifestyle of many people. And you can listen to audiobooks at the time of traveling and doing some work. Are audiobooks vs reading for software developers helpful? But sometimes both are similar. But listening can help you to make more proficient.
Understanding the text:
May says that reading is more noticeable than listening. Because when you read a text you have to change the format or some time it is difficult to understand. But listening is a shortcut as the word is already decoded and you have to just listen and then understand the content. In fact, in IT industries developers use coding audio books as they can listen as well as work. So listening has become a passive way of learning.
Material difference:
As you that to gain knowledge or to understand things you need material. It can be of a printed one or audio. Some people are very legible to hear than to read it helps you to pass the information fast. That is the reason why first the information is told to you and to show.
Benefits of listening to an audio book:
Listening to audio records will help you to improve your vocabulary, comprehension skills, and pronunciation. By listening to the correct pronunciation you can correct and pronounce the words properly.
It is not possible while reading to do some other work. Reading requires a physical book or an e-book to read and the most important thing is you need ample light for it. But in case of listening you no need these factors even you can listen while reading. So another part is about convenience.
At the time of listening you won’t have any visual clues to match and understand the thing so in this way it helps you to improve your listening skill. That’s the reason why programmers listen to programming audiobooks.
In your childhood you have not read any word or sentence but you are more fluent in speaking. That is because of the listening skills you developed from your childhood.