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"Seeing" the words when you speak?
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Johntm
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24 February 2010 at 5:09am | IP Logged

Cherepaha wrote:

My dad would frequently suggest that when one is not sure about how to spell a word, one should just write it and will right away "see" if that is correct or not. Once again, as much as I tried, I could not "see" anything. If I ever said out loud how to spell it, though, I would never forget.

If I right a word down on paper, I can look at it and tell if it's spelled right (although I am I a very good speller anyway), but it's harder if I try to visualize it in my mind for some reason.

And like Tombstone and BartoG, I can remember words in context where I read them normally.

Edited by Johntm on 24 February 2010 at 5:09am
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Message 26 of 38

24 February 2010 at 5:53am | IP Logged

Johntm wrote:

If I right a word down on paper, I can look at it and tell if it's spelled right

Not always.

Johntm wrote:

(although I am I a very good speller anyway)

I see what you mean!

Edited by tommus on 24 February 2010 at 5:56am
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Message 27 of 38

25 February 2010 at 6:09pm | IP Logged

tommus wrote:

Johntm wrote:

If I right a word down on paper, I can look at it and tell if it's spelled right

Not always.

Sorry, I should have said that. Of coures I can't do that all the time, but most of the time. And while I'm a pretty good speller, my handwriting is garbage (not that I care much). The other day someone in my English class though I wrote the word "wife" when I had actually written the word "city." -.-

Edited by Johntm on 25 February 2010 at 6:09pm
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Message 28 of 38

25 February 2010 at 6:10pm | IP Logged

tommus wrote:

Johntm wrote:

(although I am I a very good speller anyway)

I see what you mean!

Damn typos.
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Message 29 of 38

26 February 2010 at 2:21am | IP Logged

I often see Spanish words in my mind when I'm trying to speak! I can do it consciously and unconsciously. However the words appear and fade rapidly and I can never see the vowels clearly! It helps because if I've forgotten a word in Spanish I can bring up the image of it but it flashes so rapidly that if I cant remember its vowel pattern I may speak the word wrong and I am a terrible speller in Spanish.

Also, I dont think there are colors to them. I'm fairly certain their just black, but I'll check closely next time I'm speaking Spanish. I think the accent mark is usually brighter than the rest of the word, even if I'm not able to tell which letter the accent is on. The mark itself is more pungent....but that may be just because when I study words I try and practice the accent.
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Message 30 of 38

26 February 2010 at 9:51pm | IP Logged

I do that as well. It's probably why I focus on pronunciation so much at first, pronunciation & spelling are very linked in my mind, so when I hear a word I picture it as much as I understand what it means. Unfortunately, if I don't know a word I have a nasty time figuring out what it is from sound alone... (this goes for English, too).
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01 March 2010 at 7:20pm | IP Logged

This happens to me with numbers, I see colors and shapes assigned to each one. This used to also happen with a
bunch of other words (usually months and days of the week) when I was younger, but those have decreased over
time. A close friend of mine "tastes" every word she says- talk about distracting.
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01 March 2010 at 11:08pm | IP Logged

Interesting, this is the first time in my life when a Japanese word looked Japanese in my head.

I heard この and it actually looked like この!

Don't know if this is the result from the deliberate visualization I've been doing the last weeks, or if it is a natural process of my brain.

It worked automatically with Russian, so I now see cyrillic when I say Russians words. Russian was easier than Japanese however, since it has so many sounds that can't be matched to Swedish equivalents.

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