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I'm american but i can't speak english well PLus i haven't talked much my whole life cause i'm a quiet person. When i speak, anything i say doesn't make sense although i try my best. Also i have trouble with reading, i can't remember what i read at all. I can't remember vocabulary either, and although i'm 27 i wound like a 10 year old kid.

Well , however, i study a forieng language Japanese...Although i'm not perfect, i can speak pretty good, have a good accent and whenever i speak it( in voice chat mostly cause don't have jpan friends), it's awesome and i can communicate with the people of that country. Yet i feel like no matter how much i study, i get stuck alot on conversation because i can't remember many of the things i studied. so i've studied alot of vocab but when i need to use it i can't remember any of it.

2007-03-01 02:17:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science Psychology

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depends on the learning disability. i have auditory processing deficit disorder. that pretty much means that when i am in class (i'm 24 and in college), i can understand what the the prof is saying but when i am trying to write down (for notes) what they had said, what's written doesn't get written exactly how it was said. i know what's going on in class, i have to study a little harder and longer than my friends and the funny thing is that if one of them is in one of my classes, they ask me for the help(!) and i am able to help.
my question is, if you are american (born and raised here) how can you not speak english well? (I understand if your family is originally from another country). here's an idea when you read...take notes on what you're reading especially the Japanese....i had to do that for a while when studying Spanish (in high school). my brother in law is from Costa Rica....he and my sister speak to each other in Spanish after getting used to that, i started listening to what they said and i was able to pick up words i understood. now i can pretty much understand what they are saying. and yes its possible for some one with a learning disability to "master" another language.....i know a few words in German (trained my 3 German shepards in German, I know a few words in Italian (25% Italian) and speak acceptable Spanish).

2007-03-01 02:31:54 · answer #1 · answered by Laura 4 · 0 0

Well, I have ADD and learning disabilities and so do my boys. Learning disabilities could mean that you are very intelligent but don't learn the same as others, as in our case. Try a speed reading course. May sound crazy, but it will help you pick up key words so that when you read fast, you comprehend more.

2007-03-01 02:28:25 · answer #2 · answered by karenhar 5 · 1 0

Sounds like you have a learning disability and that is why you get stuck speaking japanese. Just keep practicing it and memorizing it. With time youll keep remembering what you have been learning.

2007-03-01 02:26:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

it is very difficult, i have tried many foreign langagues and never been very good. however, i hear learning japanese and chinese are much easier to learn for dyslexics as they are more like pictures. i have not really tried yet even though my gf is japanese but i can speak a bit what she has taught me and what i learned in a book. but i can speak it better than persian and friech that i have learn for 5 years. wired hur. i wish u luck in ur langauges. i hope to learn japanese well as my gf is having our baby and dont want them to speak about me.

2007-03-01 02:25:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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