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| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5101 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 1 of 22 27 October 2013 at 11:20pm | IP Logged |
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I was in hospital for the majority of this week (Monday to Friday) to cause a forced seizure to be recorded on video - a telemetry test.
While this was happening I had a test with a psychologist who had realised I'd been writing Chinese characters down. He did little tests on my memory and he discovered that it appears that my brain is strongly linguistic, a few memory problems but it takes me a few attempts when writing things down to have a constant fixed memory, which is why he advised that I write things more often that I normally do. Plus, (in his words) " it's fascinates me that your brain is actively more 'geared' towards easily remembering scripted languages and not Latin script based languages" He held a card up in German which I had to read and remember and say back. He shown it to me for 5 seconds saying "ich möchte rund der Welt reisen und ich hoffe nach Asien zurückkehren" - I got the full sentence on the first attempt saying it back. He was fascinated because usually people who are better at scripted languages are left handed and seizures occur on the right side of their brain whereas I'm right handed and my seizures start and occur on my left side of the brain He also thinks that I somehow use both sides of my brain for learning and that I'm visual (my right side) and verbal (my left side). Edited by languagenerd09 on 27 October 2013 at 11:24pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5784 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 2 of 22 28 October 2013 at 12:02am | IP Logged |
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At risk of making an absolute c*** of myself, where did (s)he get the German sentence? I'm no expert, but it
seems wrong to me. Apologies if I'm wrong but zurückzukehren sounds better to me and I somehow don't like the phrase "rund der Welt fahren", altthough the fact that I (a mere learner) never heard it before and don't like how it sounds doesn't mean it's wrong, obviously. Interesting thread, anyway. Sorry for going off-topic. Edited by Random review on 28 October 2013 at 1:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5784 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 3 of 22 28 October 2013 at 12:09am | IP Logged |
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Googled "rund der Welt fahren" apparently it's OK. Still ugly though...ha ha
Edit: er, ,apparently my skill with google is even worse than my German (sheepish grin). Edited by Random review on 28 October 2013 at 1:51am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5101 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 4 of 22 28 October 2013 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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I don't know where he got it from to be honest, it was printed on a laminated card, so it could have been from anywhere.
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| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5600 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 5 of 22 28 October 2013 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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"Rund der Welt fahren" is wrong. If you google it, you find it only in a garbled text written by a certain Brit Gargen full of strange German.
The correct version is: Ich möchte rund um die Welt reisen und ich hoffe nach Asien zurückzukehren. 8 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5784 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 6 of 22 28 October 2013 at 1:49am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for clearing that up, Cabaire. Once again sorry for taking the thread off-topic- it deserves to
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 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 7 of 22 28 October 2013 at 10:43am | IP Logged |
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I simply don't understand what the psychologist means by the expression "strongly linguistic". With a few exceptions all humans are strongly linguistic.
If by 'scripted languages' you mean languages written with ideograms then it wouldn't be really surprising to find that the right brain half (and left hand) were more active than it is in the average left brain dominated language user. And every time such a logical thought is shot down by a counterexample it should be interesting for any decent specialist in that field. However the advice about writing things down should not be limited to people with your mental constitution. It would be extremely weird if writing things down didn't help people to remember things better - even though it also has the effect that people don't care to memorize things they know are written down somewhere. 11 persons have voted this message useful | |
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4300 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 8 of 22 28 October 2013 at 4:48pm | IP Logged |
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Just wondering, since Chinese uses ideograms, and according to psychology Chinese people should be more right-brain oriented, does it mean that most Chinese people should be left-handed but they just don't know? The last time I checked the vast majority of Chinese people are right-handed, but then again we were taught very early in life that one should write with right hand. It's like a social norm or something.
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