I drove across country with my girlfriend and we read several books to each other as we drove. I'll never forget that.

When I was a boy my parents required that I read to them aloud.  It started during car trips of an hour or more under the guise of "keeping my father awake".  
I read classical authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island".  I read Mark Twain, and Agatha Christie.  My mother wanted to hear Irma Bombeck's humor so we included her, and my dad leaned toward Ian Fleming and James Bond.  
My grades in school climbed as I was able to focus on concepts with an increased vocabulary.  My own writing improved as I internalized author's styles.  
    As a fourth grader I was required to take an entrance exam to get into private school.  Ironically, I took the exams and passed, but I sat in the wrong exam room (I went in the direction I was pointed toward).  I had sat for the seventh grade exams and passed as a fourth grader.  This led to questioning whether to place me three years ahead, and ultimately I'm glad I wasn't advanced as the age difference and maturity later in high school would have been confusing.  But reading aloud is a practice I highly recommend.  My girlfriend enjoys it, as do my pets.  😊

The early cigar rolling factories in Tampa, Florida employed 'Lectors.' People paid - often teachers and professors - to read aloud. They would often read to dozens and dozens of people while they rolled cigars. Often, they would start with a newspaper, then move on to reading from books of fiction or nonfiction. This left their mostly immigrant workforce both politically astute, and particularly well-read. Something about that is very romantic to me.

I'm learning Spanish, and I like to read Spanish out loud every day. Not for memory, but to train my ability to produce spoken Spanish.

I spend about 2.5 hours a day reading aloud to my children during homeschool.  When they were babies, I read about three hours a day to them.  Add talking, singing, and they were very verbal!  I LOVE reading together.   We pass the Bible around the dinner table, pass our curriculum books and share reading.  Oh I love reading quietly, too.  We read so many books each year.  They have all been memorable.

reading books aloud is a lovely thing to do with your partner. you get to hear their voice and share the imagined story 🌺

I like reading poetry out loud.  This way I can appreciate the beauty of the language with my own ears.

I love to read aloud, even when I'm alone.  It helps to develop elocution and public speaking skills.

I read The Iliad (translated by Robert Fagles) aloud to my dog. I knew I would enjoy the enunciation and grasp the meanings better that way. I think she liked it!

I read aloud the whole of War and Peace and Les Miserable. Slow but made the experience so much more ‘memorable’.

Thanks so much. As an aside, your delivery is excellent. Soft spoken, good articulation. Keep up good work!

I am a Lector at church - I love reading out loud!  Remember, if you are reading out loud - read slower than you feel is necessary - then people can keep up and understand you!

For even more effect, sing it! Like many older people, I can't remember poems or text verbatim, but I know the lyrics of many songs Ive learned over my lifetime. Sometimes, even people with dementia
can sing songs when they can no longer speak in sentences coherently.

In December I asked my husband if we could read outloud together during Advent.  We alternated pages reading out loud--with a bit of drama on my part.  Our first book was A Christmas Carol by Dickens.  After that book we continued the practice--reading classics in religion, history, and literature.  I knew my husband liked the practice when one night he said "is it time to read." This summer we have been going to parks and lakes to read.   I also have been reading weekly with one of my grandsons--in French--for five years now since he was in 1st grade at a French immersion school.  We, alternate aloud.  I was sure that when he entered 5th grade this year he would no longer want to do this sweet thing with his gramma but came the question to me:  "Are you gonna pick me up at school every Tuesday?"  Some grateful tears on my part! I love the idea of book-ended reading with the young and the old.

I came to this realization when I realized how many songs, hymns etc. that I knew the words to. Amazing.

Having my mom read out loud to me was one of my favorite things when I was little. She was a trained singer and a born ham, and loved to perform; she had a great dramatic and comic sense, and the way she brought stories to life trained me to "hear" everything I read, helping me to understand and enjoy it more. Later, I loved reading to my daughter—picture books, then chapter books, and sometimes Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, which were her favorite bedtime story for about a year. Fortunately, my daughter got to spend a lot of time with my parents; sometimes I would come to pick her up and find my mom reading her the same books she had read to me—Wind in the Willows, Winnie the Pooh, Laura Ingalls Wilder, etc. My daughter went on to become a professional writer. When mom developed dementia, I would sometimes read to her, often the same A.A. Milne stories she had read to me and her grand daughter. They were short, funny, and easy for her to follow because she had practically memorized them decades ago. Reading aloud to each other has been a comfort and a delight.

It’s so funny how this video popped up because I recently started reading to my significant other. I love reading. Thank you

About five years ago I started reading the Bible out loud, especially the portions I wanted to remember. Just intuitively started to do it. This is such an exciting discovery for me. Thank you for making this video.

My grandfather always read aloud. At the time I found it annoying. Now I wish I could hear him again. I have so many unanswered questions.

I'm a slow reader and don't move on until I understand. I think I'm reading aloud silently! I'm a pianist, so spend a lot of time putting notation into physical as well as auditory memory while phrasing the notes into musically grammatical and expressive shapes in terms of volume and speed etc. Your talk opens up many interesting lines of inquiry!