Is it normal for reading to progress faster than listening?

(2016-01-28, 3:20 pm)cophnia61 Wrote: Thank you SomeCallMeChris for you exemplary answer I think the same but I've never truly tried the listening-reading method... but I perceive it is a great method for the reasons you explained.
I know that the written form is above all a written representation of the spoken one, and to actually listen what you're reading, expecially in japanese where there are those ambiguities, must be inevitably helpful.
The fact is that I don't particularly like anime, movies, drama so I don't know what to listen to. I like variety but it's hard to find transcripts :/ I was thinking about audiobooks but I don't know what to buy...

Have you tried any of the free audiobooks here? http://forum.koohii.com/thread-752.html
Or news websites with audio and text?


I also noticed my reading fluidity is much better when I read right after watching anime (I'm sure any comprehensible audio works). Something about hearing the language primes my brain for reading or something.