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There are a few educational psychologists around the world who believe that dyslexia is not a syndrome, mainly because it is impossible to establish a definition for this condition and every person has only certain traits of it.
In the UK, for example, professionals are using a groundbreaking method to teach ''dyslexic'' children and children with literacy difficulties. This learning process is based on teaching children the 100 most common words in the language. Learning this vocabulary is key, because it is the equivalent of 53% of written English.
Perhaps, this method can be helpful to foreign language learners but I don't know if other languages besides English have their own vocabulary summarized in that way.
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Yes, just search for "word frequency list" in the language you want to study and you will probably find something of this sort. Good tip.
Omg, thank you! I just googled it.
Yes, all languages have this characteristic ;)
Hi Raisa, I have a copy of the paperback book "2000 Most Common German Words in Context" and the corresponding audio book. The publisher just captured all of the words appearing in a lot of different sources (e.g. newspapers, books, etc.) and ranked them by frequency of appearance. This approach results in some bizarre words appearing such as people's names, a lot of profanity and a mix of different dialects. This is sounding a little too negative. I really like the fact that verbs with different prefixes will appear as separate words. Goiod luck in your studies. Tom
Hi, Tom. That's so interesting! I can imagine the profanity lol it's not that helpful for the children, though...
An interesting post. Please write more about dyslexia.
Do you know studies that analyse the relation between dyslexia and speaking fast. I know people who meet difficulties to improve their fluency in foreign languages (but also in their native ones) because they are speaking too fast. This does not only impact the way they pronunce words but also their memorization.
Hi, Graham! I'll do my best, thank you.
Hi, Leonard! I haven't read any study about this particular issue yet, but it may be due to anxiety.
Thank you! I will have a closer look at the relations between anxiety and problems of utterance.