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"Seeing" the words when you speak? | ||
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| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6265 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 9 of 38 30 July 2008 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have synaesthesia too. For me, all letters and numbers have a color, so I see colors in any word that uses the Latin alphabet. Japanese kana also have colors, but they are the same colors as their romaji equivalents(か is the same color as "ka")
Oh, I also see colors in music to a lesser degree. I don't see how it could hurt your language abilities :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 38 30 July 2008 at 5:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I usually don't see letters/words/numbers in colours, not when listening/reading/speaking/writing at least. Only if I think of the letter A, the number 7 et.c. (both if which I see in green, by the way).
However, the way I read your question was if I "read" the words when I speak. Which I do. I see a whole sentence a split second before I say it. Not that I "have to" see it in order to speak it, it's just there. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6651 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto | Message 11 of 38 30 July 2008 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yep, I see all words and numbers in colors. Very specific, non-changing colors (A is red, R is purple, W is gray, etc.). It's useful when remembering numbers when you don't have a pencil handy (measurements, phone numbers, etc.), and I think it helps somewhat in terms of vocabulary in the early stages, but after a word has been used enough times, I remember the meaning most and recall the colors only when consciously trying to. In other words, it's a help, but not a mind-blowing one.
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| ipanema Newbie United States Joined 6529 days ago 37 posts - 38 votes Studies: French | Message 12 of 38 30 July 2008 at 9:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm the same way. I see sounds, too in a similar fashion. I also see concepts like days of the week, months,
numbers, etc as colorful objects. I remember once when I was in the 3rd grade, I tried to explain it to my teacher and she told me I was making it up. ^^ Anyway, maybe that's one of the reasons I like the sound of French so much. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6051 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 13 of 38 31 July 2008 at 1:37am | IP Logged | ||
Absolutely I have considered learning Mandarin, and its on my "list". As it turns out, I have perfect pitch as well, so the tones wouldn't really be a factor. As for the written Chinese...well that seems like the real nightmare to me! Well its at least good to know that there are some other language learners out there that experience something similar, so thanks for making yourselves known. Since it is an "abnormality" I was concerned it may affect my fluency but its good that appearently, from what you others say, that it won't. I haven't really considered entering any studies. Perhaps if one comes along in my area I might go, but I'm not really seeking them out...I'm super busy right now. I'm sure there are plenty others like me to be studied in the meantime. Edited by irrationale on 31 July 2008 at 1:39am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 38 31 July 2008 at 5:24am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't see colors tied to lingustical phenomena, but shapes and structures. When I think about sentence structure I see 'chinese boxes' and leverage bars tieing pronomina to their references (which mostly are boxes). When I am somewhat unsure about a certain form of a word I move around within its inflection table - that's one of the effects of making green sheets with morphological tables: everything has its welldefined place. And finally there is a phase before listening to a language becomes second nature where I listen very intently, but without trying deliberately to understand what is said. During this phase I see 'undefined' writing with punctuation and spaces between the words rolling through my internal field of vision. But all this is something that has developed gradually as a result of my study methods rather than an inborn thing. If I had used colors systematically to denote for instance different cases or genders then I might have been seeing colors too like the true synaesthetes.
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| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7147 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 15 of 38 31 July 2008 at 6:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Interesting.
When I was in high school I learnt trigonometry formulae by the shape of the words. Tangent was nice and balanced, opposite was nice and smooth, adjacent was rough and hypotenuse was jagged. Sine was OK but cosine was unbalanced and grated. All of the words naturally joined to make the formulas. This doesn't happen all the time but it does when I examine the words and look for it. I never told anyone about it for fear they would think I was crazy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Poliglotta80 Nonaglot Newbie ItalyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5977 days ago 11 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Italian*, SpanishC2, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, GermanC2, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Russian Studies: Mandarin, Romanian Studies: Japanese | Message 16 of 38 06 August 2008 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hehe, this discussion is cool. I thought I was weird having subtitles in my head when speaking different languages, but evidently I am not alone...Cool!
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