Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.
If you can read English well you probably had no problem reading the previous paragraph, in spite of the fact that only the shortest words are spelled correctly. It turns out that once you learn to read a language well…
your brain does not piece the sounds together the way a beginner would. Eventually you just look at the word as a whole, understand the word, and go on the the next one. Which is why you can still understand words with terrible spelling. Actually you can comprehend entire lines at one time, but that is a subject for an article on speed reading.
You can have a lot of fun with this fact by making up your own paragraphs with wildly misspelled words and then showing them to teachers who think they know how reading works. Probably reading works in a much different way for beginners, than it does after you know how to read the language well.
Paragraphs with badly misspelled words, are very difficult for beginning readers to read, so we can clearly recommend that you still learn how to sound out Russian letters use that method at least in part when learning to read. However it’s important to understand that there may be much more we can learn about how reading, and learning to read, works.
Do you have a course in Italian?
Jill -
Yes! It is nearing completion. Please check out the available information at learn-italian.language101.com
Thomas
Hi there,
I’m from Mexico and would like to try your method learning english.
Do you have a course in English ?
Regards,
Luis -
We are gathering together the necessary data to get that project underway! It will be great when each language is able to be learned back and forth.
You say that this professor has claimed that spelling is unimportant , however , that is usually if you have learne to read early in life and not latter. Many people like myself because of things like dyslexia , didnt learn to read untill age 9 or so. The first several sentences you typed were very difficult to puzzle through for this type of individual. I can not speed read , or comprohend multiple words at once. What would you suggest for learning to read a different language for these type of individuals.
Lara -
As with any difference in learning comprehension each individual must determine what their ideal is and work within that structure. Dyslexia is a challenging mental re-organization to first overcome. Once your mind began sorting out the shapes you were able to more fully integrate what was being presented with what you perceived, correct? Something similar happens with text as exampled above. The first time I read that I had a hard time with it. Each time I look at it I attempt to read each word individually and it hinders my progress to comprehend. When I look at each block of words my mind then sorts out the contextual meaning in addition to the literal word and I can speed right through it with full comprehension.
As for learning to read a different language – the same challenge will be presented if the mind is attempting to discern the actual shape being perceived. It is possible, however, that a mind which is dyslexic in the Latin (english) alphabet might actually key right into something very different such as cyrillic characters, japanese kanji or arabic script.
We are all vastly different and doing our best to fit everyone into the same conceptual brain model. Maybe the key is to fit ourselves into the model that works best for our individuality.