Jenna Medlyn looking back my dyslexia also improved after I started learning how to play piano. Never thought that there would be a connection there.

Could be. My sister started singing in the school's chorus around 2nd grade and continued through high school. She's dyslexic too, but was not too terribly far behind her classmates. They had been working with her with other methods of course, and then there's her big sister who was generally ahead in reading to compete with. Certainly, the music training didn't hurt

Jenna Medlyn dude..... yes.... music got me over my dyslexia. I believe that if we get children who are dyslexic in music, then it would help them greatly.

From my experience, I'm gonna say yes. the letter shi し in Japanese has some slightly different pronunciation depending on the word that is used. That being said learning to spell the Japanese Alphabet more consistently is easier for me since its all single sounds most of the time.

It happens to me, my native language is portuguese and I’m currently imersed in Italian, they both have latin origins, but I struggle with words that sometimes have the same writing and meaning but are read completly different in each language. And don’t even get me started with double letters. In portuguese the rr and the ss are read like they belong together but in italian they are read as if they are in separated syllabes, but ever so subtle that I still can’t get it. My italian husband laughts everytime I ask if certain word is written with double letters and he says it slowly to me, like syllabe by syllabe, and I say: so is it one or two letters? Even after 5 years of intense italian I still don’t hear the double letters. And it is very weird because in english there are a lot of words with double letters (usually that originated from latin words) and I get them, maybe because I’ve learned to read and write in english at a young age, even before I learned it in portuguese. Weird brain!

Not initially since the whole language is new but after a while, yes. Then again, some people will always have a strong accent in that language.

As someone who is trilingual from childhood, from a country that is largely trilingual or bilingual (the Philippines), I'm saying no. Prosody is actually one of the first things we notice in other languages. The differences in cadence, stress, tone, etc. to the point that we can imitate how a language sounds like without actually knowing a single word from that language. German, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Bahasa, Singaporean English, etc. all have their own distinctive sound and rhythm. From experience, it's only a problem for monolinguals who learn a second language _as adults._ It's one of the generational divides in the Philippines. Older (or poorer) generations who learned English as adults often speak with a distinctive accent we call "Carabao English", where V gets confused with B, F with P, Th with D, and so on. And the stresses follow what is perceived from outside the country as a "Filipino Accent." Meanwhile, younger generations who learned English from childhood often have an accent very close to General American (almost Californian really), purely from language saturation from movies and music. I've also observed this in westerners in the Philippines. Those who are monolingual (usually Americans, Canadians, and Brits) who try to speak a word or phrase of the native languages usually have problems with intonation, stress, and rhythm. Most are unaware that they sound distinctly feminine due to how they enunciate the words. Same thing with other Asian monolinguals like Japanese, Koreans, Thai, etc., even though Filipino languages, like Japanese, largely follow the CVCV syllable pattern In contrast, tourists who are natively bilingual (like some Europeans) overall had a better grasp of how the native languages sound like, even if they have problems pronouncing some phonemes like the glottal stop or the initial Ng sound. The words _sound_ right.

It happens a lot, the main reason why we struggle in the listening part when learning a second language is that we don't hear the sounds our brain expects to hear. Even if we know all the words on a sentence it's easy to be unable to catch it until we are familiar with how words actually sound instead of our own interpretation.

My mom did percussion in high school because she couldn't read music because of her dyslexia.

But so many of singers are dyslexic...

Master Therion haha notes 😆

Nim Chimpsky Interesting, thank you. A developmental disorder is for life. It creates a brain with a different physical structure than a neurotypical brain. I have Aspergers, no difficulties with music, and no learning disabilities. And yet, even at 52, there are still social situations that confound me. It’s not that I can’t or won’t read psychology, anthropology or linguistics. It’s not that I can’t read facial expressions, gestures or posture. I have made in depth studies of all of these things and make drawings with some minor skill that are very accurate in capturing, say, the tiny lift in someone’s lip when they are looking down on someone. The problem is motive. Very often people are lying even to themselves about their motives, and there is a lack of congruence between their posture and what they say. Woe betide you if you respond to what you see instead of what you hear! There’s no rage like that provoked by accidentally revealing a lie someone is busy telling themselves!

@Nim Chimpsky maybe in adults it doesn't work as well but in kids it does, I learnt read music (around 7) before I learnt to read words correctly without just purely guessing ( around 11). I have mild dyslexia, I pretty sure my music training help me immensely and without it I would have struggled a lot more.

The-Hope-Of-Balarat, I second that! I have dyscalculia too. No wonder I've always had so much trouble with math and hate the subject!

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Who could ask for anything more?

Possibly, but schools really only exist to teach political propaganda, so it's all good.

Slappy wow, calm you tin foil head and take a deep breath of chemtrails. Not everything is political propaganda, schooling is 1800 years old or so. The illuminati was only formed on 1776. That’s a differents of 1576 years. (Btw I learned subtraction from school 👍)

Throttle Kitty We all want to know how to say alligator in this accent. I can think of many situations when that would be useful. My usual phrase for expressing surprise need to be updated, for example.

horrorkesh OMG I have the same! I also swap the first two letters when I’m writing and skip entire words when reading.

I do the numbers thing - it's called dyscalculia - I have it too ‐ I can't read music but I can play it & sing it & have excellent rhythm. Maybe cos I learnt music when I was really young?? Sorry about the dyscalculia thing. It made math take a lot longer.

Its an artistic choice really. Some shot compositions would look kinda dumb with perfect image quality. Motion blur creates a sense of energy. But having a camera that always showed motion blur would make my head hurt.

Lizbit Clark 'Finding Memo' is more useful as you age. Going to start sticking them on my own forehead. Or, or, you could change your name to Bitark Clawliz in situations where you would like to come off as more exotic. ;)

@@pencilfriendpaperscribbler6032 Hi, um...I am a little confused. What are you sticking on your forehead and why is finding Memo more useful as I age?

Lizbit Clark Memos! Memos are more useful as you age as you are more forgetful! I have no use for Nemos at 52! Although, I suppose if I have grandchildren...I'm not going to be sticking a fish to my forehead am I? 😂 So it has to be memos! Of course I'm not actually going to stick them to my forehead, it’s a joke.; )

@@pencilfriendpaperscribbler6032 Ohhh my gosh I am so dumb. haha I was reading it me-mo not mem-o because that's what I thought the movie was called. I completely forgot about memos like post it notes. Lol I feel so stupid.

@@lizbitclark9778 If it makes you feel any better, I was reading it mee-moe too :P I thought it was some sort of reference until I read the other comments

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I never had an officially diagnosis of a dyslexia or a learning disability, but I've also pondered this as well. I can not hear stressed and unstressed syllables well. I also had this issue where I'd write p's and d's and such ever though I was an avid reader.

Maybe try looking into types of aphasia? I only learned about a couple types in my linguistics classes a few years ago, but this reminded me of that. Good luck!

I'm not sure what this is unfortunately, but I think I may have something similar? From my experience, it feels like it's just from habits about which letters tend to go together in clusters. If I type a word starting with ni-, I might habitually type -ght, just out of habit. Is that similar? Cause I'm the same way, I can spell and speak just fine, but it often happens when I'm thinking through multiple words at once and my brain sorta autocompletes what I'm typing :P (I could see how "too far a-" would complete to "away", for instance, so it could well be similar) As far as I'm concerned, I don't have anything like dyslexia or bipolar disorder, so if that is the same thing you do, it could be something completely different

@@Kikakowia Thanks! I think it is something on that spectrum as well :)

@@coryman125 I have a friend who is looking into adult ADHD because of similar issues. Like her brain is processing quicker than her verbal abilities.

Michael Gainey Very interesting! Some people do have difficultly with abstract concepts. There are even decided differences demographically, here in the UK. Part of it can be cultural. I know someone who is rather good at maths, clearly an abstract language, but was never encouraged to read. He and many of his peers are even more literal minded in conversation than me and I have autism. After a comedian was interviewed in the Guardian, there was a significant number of commenters who were distressed because they couldn’t tell whether or not the comedian was telling the truth about his life! Not sure why they felt so concerned to pin down details that were clearly irrelevant to their own lives, instead of simply enjoying the witty responses, but it was distressing to them. A bit like how you absolutely cannot start a conversation about photographs as 'truth' with some people. The idea that photography is a mediated 'truth' isn’t simply a no go subject for lack of vocabulary, it’s a genuinely distressing idea that will be countered with reactionary behaviour.

My father, brother, my son and I are all dyslexic of different degrees. My father taught himself the guitar at 10 and was quite good. My brother played brass instruments, mostly baritone. It's usually lumped in with percussion. I was recommended for drums because of my rhythm but ended up playing brass instruments because that's what we had. I played everything except trombone. My son played drums from an early age. He has amazing rhythm. My daughter, nephew and husband have above normal reading but have no rhythm. Just more to research...

That actually sounds a lot like dysgraphia.

I am confused, I have add and dyslexia and I always thought they were genetic. I had no idea they could be environmentally caused.

@@lizbitclark9778 Repeated blunt force trauma to my cranium with miscellaneous objects, from the time I was ~5ish (among countless other horrors) clearly had "an impact". Sorry, some unnecessary self-deprecation on my part. You can look up the details though. Just search for: cognitive ramifications of childhood trauma.

Kevin Ellington Depends on how you define “stop.” It’s true, as long as the person is singing. Though once you stop, it comes back. -a Speech Pathology MS student, also a person who stutters

Well if theyre training themselves then theyll get better at it. Its not a permanent curse on the mind, its an issue with processing

learning to draw, and especially hand drawn animation helped me more than anything.

They did that like, a year ago.

That made me Lmao so hard

Bet? How much?

Boi Makes sense, sorry if my original comment sounded a bit to confrontational 😅. I wasn’t trying to say she was entirely wrong, just wanted to put in my two cents

& yeah im dyslexic

Liana Gao hello fellow musician!

Aleesa Barker Hello!