TwilightPrincess wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
Do you find that when you learn a new word an old word you don't use gets chucked out the other end of your mind? I think this happens to me and is why langauges I am no good at.
It doesn’t happen to me. Sometimes it helps me remember other words if they relate to each other in some way. I’m a very visual person. When I’m reading a book in Spanish, I can’t always remember the word in English, but I can picture it in my mind. Since I think in pictures, translating into English requires an extra step. I read the word, see the picture in my mind, and then need to put a word to it. It’s really weird. I couldn’t think of the English word “doorknob” once, but I could see a picture of one. It’s a wonder I don’t struggle more than I do now that I think about it.
I think you are doing very well.
Living in Wales I am expected to speak welsh but while I can remember a few simple words, I struggle with any more, and I was absolutely hopeless at making sentences with those words and changing the beginnings according to how those words were supposed to be used. Was worse in french! In english I was accused of not reading, when I was reading railway books for hours every day (Though I am one who gets more information out of the pictures which is hard to explain to others, especially teachers as they did not always believe me. A picture I can study, study and study and get more and more out of (Depending on the picture and what it is and if it grabs my attention or not as if it grabs my attention, my mind then can go deep).
Do you get faceblindness though? Is odd I get faceblindness being a visual thinker, as the two seem like they should be the same thing. (As in the visual attention to detail side of things).
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