Here's a nosy question about language-learning and memory which you can feel totally free to ignore if it's too weird and/or personal:
I'm so curious about what it was like to learn French purely by immersion and without knowing how anything was spelled, because when I say I'd be helpless without my alphabets, I'm really not kidding. Do you think it's possible that not being familiar with the spelling/phonetics was part of what made it hard for you to speak that language? In other words, do you remember words better when you feel like you can link them to a phonetics system?
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Date: 19 Feb 2011 10:35 pm (UTC)I'm so curious about what it was like to learn French purely by immersion and without knowing how anything was spelled, because when I say I'd be helpless without my alphabets, I'm really not kidding. Do you think it's possible that not being familiar with the spelling/phonetics was part of what made it hard for you to speak that language? In other words, do you remember words better when you feel like you can link them to a phonetics system?