is it possable to have a learning disability to where you cant learn a lanuage?

Question

this spanish imerson class of mine is very hard and take note i have also been around spanish much of my life and have learn nothing. i rember them taking me out of spanish in 2nd grade because they said i had a learning disbility but yet my JR year of high school the teacher said she knew nothin of it...she was the one that had orignaly said i had the problem. i also cant grasp the grammar hell i have a harenough time reading and writing in english. and i am trying but i just cant seem to get past a few basic sentences and i have known them for years. i cant seem to get any thing new.

Answer 1

This problem could be caused by a number of factors. There are many things that could possibly contribute to learning (or not learning) a new language. I wonder if maybe you are progressing, but not recognizing it? The teaching methods can have a large contribution as well.

I almost wonder if your junior-high teacher's complaint that you had a problem with learning Spanish was a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. In other words, maybe you believed her statement that you couldn't do it, and so you couldn't do it.

I also wonder if there is a mismatch between your expectations and what's realistic. In other words, perhaps you expect that, by now, you should never make any grammatical mistakes, when, in fact, few non-native speakers attain that level.

I believe it is possible for a person to have a neurological problem with learning new languages. There have been certain individuals who were known for having extraordinarily good language-learning capabilities, and having extraordinarily bad language-learning capabilities would be the converse of that, I guess.

I could also think other possible explanations like auditory processing disabilities. If you are concerned about this kind of thing you might want to have yourself tested by a psychologist. A general disability like that would surely affect other areas of your life besides language learning.

I'm a linguist who is trained in Second Language Acquisition (the field that would study situations like yours) but I can tell you that there just hasn't been too much research on questions like yours. In fact, a panelist at a conference I attended a few years ago said that she thought we should do more research in the area of the intersection between language acquisition and learning disabilities. So I don't think that there is really anyone today who can answer your question very well.

Answer 2

If you can speak, read and write your first language, you can learn another language.
However, any learning disability you have in English will be made worse by a second language. You will need a teacher who will go slow enough for you and who will repeat as much as you need, or who will work with you and your particular disability.
Some research shows that for students with and without a specific learning disability, one of the main predictors of sucess in a second language is time on task--that is, even if you fail Spanish I, you will learn something, and you will do much better when you try it again than you did the first time. In the best of all possible worlds, you could stay in the beginning Spanish class until you had mastered the material at your own speed, but American high schools and colleges tend to lockstep the students and insist they all learn at the same rate--probably far faster than most students can grasp.
Good luck

Answer 3

You could ave a moderate form of Dyslexia, which is a learning disability that could make learning a second language hard. Dyslexic people have trouble with phonetics (fonetiks) or the way to sound out words. Reading a diffrent language can be harder for them. Also something else that they don't notice (untill they have proper testing) is that words can seem rearranged (worst cases whole lines would seem to be misplaced). How do I know this? I've been diagnosed with a verry mild case of it (I get the occational letter switch, even in my typing). I'm sure you could learn spanish (or any other language for that matter) but not the traditional way by doing reading and writing all the time. You'd be better off learning oraly.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

yes, it's called aphasia, but i doubt you have it. you seem to speak english perfectly fine.