I remember I was really young and I was reading aloud in a car. My uncle told me to read in my mind and I was like, "How do you do that?" Then he asked, "You don't know how to read in your mind? Try it then." I tried it and I was mind blown that I WAS READING IN MY MIND! I just thought it was a funny story of when I was young.
Kudos for the Video clip! Forgive me for chiming in, I am interested in your thoughts. Have you thought about - Millawdon Future Ticket Trick (Sure I saw it on Google)? It is a smashing exclusive product for teaching children to read without the headache. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my old buddy Taylor after a lifetime of fighting got astronomical results with it.
I'm a survivor of an attempt to re-create the phonetic English writing system. An educational experiment in the 50s-70s utilized here in NY. It is a miracle that I succeeded in overcoming the 'new system' and transitioned to standard English. How? slow, tearful, long periods of time writing and rewriting spelling words from 2nd to 12th grade. The advent of the word processor, when I was in graduate school, helped immensely. Spelling and grammar checkers are helpful BUT can't replace understanding word usage that comes from reading. Today I teach English to refugees and many have never attended school as children. It's hard but I remember how much I wanted to understand those black marks on the pages of the newspaper and books my parents read. We need to be very careful of supporting any effort to revamp English spelling. It will be a wonderful tool to create mass illiterates who will be easy to manipulate through visual media.
learning to read and write English was kind of hard for me as a child, I remember struggling with it. learning to read and write Hebrew was a totally different story. Hebrew it was very easy for me.
And to think English as recently as 150 years ago (which isn't relatively much) made sense as far as spelling was concerned. Damn, even our grandfathers had it easier. The problem is that English has been evolving very rapidly, much faster in speech than in writing. The old pronunciations were difficult/inconvenient (WH as in WHERE or KN as in KNOW for instance) and have been replaced with easier ones, yet people were too hesitant to reform the spellings, simply because too many words have been altering over time, and it would've meant very frequent spellings reforms (even annually) so it just... stayed that way. As for read [reed] and read [red], the past participle form used to be the same as the infinitve form (much like for "put") but we liked it to follow the same pattern "lead" does, because of the similar pronunciation (the same thing happens to "know"-"known", "blow"-"blown", they're very similar). A part of the reason is that English has so many words (over a million, compared to the other languages having a 5 digit number of words and doing fine). This is why so many people have problems distinguishing between even the simplest, most commonly used words such as there/their/they're - these used to be pronounced differently, but it was much more convenient to pronounce them as we do today, and people who so aggressively correct people making these simple mistakes are another part of the reason behind the problem - their conservative attitude towards spelling makes the old, obsolete spellings prevail. And that comes from someone who's not even a native speaker =)
Glizdka Homophones really do wreck the brain. Plus having letters with multiple sounds is also a problem as it adds to the number of homophones. I also dislike that some letters simply look too similar to each other like 'O' and 'Q'. Lastly, English borrows a lot of words from other languages, so it's almost like speaking multiple languages instead of just one and then some of those adopted words don't play by the same rules.
When I first was learning the alphabet in kindergarten... thanks to the teacher , she was sitting on the opposite side of the table, so i ended learning the letters upside down lol. had to relearn everything again and get extra-help with that and reading in first grade :P ...
I recall having a lot of anxiety on my first day of school. My mom was all like "it will be great. They are going to teach you how to read." and I was just like "But how?" and "what if they can't?". She kept on saying they would and (ofc) they did although I did have a few set backs due to mild dyslexia. It was actually my sister that picked up on my dyslexia. Went through 7 years of school without a teacher noticing - but I think that is the thing with dyslexics. We make our own tools to use so that we don't get found out and ashamed for "being too stupid" to read or write :
I'm from sweden and I find spelling in swedish is much harder than in english, cause in swedish E and Ä sometimes sound alike, as does O and Å, so I usually don't know which letter to use. English is easier too me, even if it's more irregular
I had english now for 9 years in school and even though its not perfect or will ever be i feel pretty comfortable in understanding it. And in my opinion that includes hearing and reading. (and btw im german)
i wish they would talk about logographic scripts like chinese and mixed systems like japanese, and the extremely simple korean writing that's so easy most kids are semi-literate before they enter school. so interesting
I began reading almost automatically, didn't take me long to figure out at all. My mom used to read stories to me and my sisters when we were young while we were following along in the book and I have a feeling that helped me a lot.
keefahh Wait, I thought it was basically the same as if I heard people from the UK say "year 3." For us, basically just add 5, since that's the usual age we start K(Kindergarten, before 1st grade). How does it add up in the UK?
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have different education systems but the English start at reception at 4 the year 1 next year and Scots start P1 at 5 so for both add 4
keefahh As an Ameircan when people are saying "grade #" I really don't know the ages by grade either, unless I actually start backtrack counting. So if I don't, my scale of the ages is more like this xD: (Elementary school -in my area) Preschool - Kindegarten = young kids 1st-3rd = young but older kids 4th-6th = Well they're older (Middle School -in my area) 7th-9th = Teenagers right? (High School.) 10th-11th = Older teenagers! 12th = 17-19 years old on average.
I want someone to place an electrode cap on my head when I am just starring at a word that I know is spelled right but I just think it is wrong, really want to know what is going on there...
I have dyslexia and reading was (and still is) a never ending battle! I'm always intimidated to read full books but I can read articles and such minimal problems. Not sure why my engagement is limited like that but out of my own personal experience, just learning to read was a personal hell to me even when taught coping skills.
I've read so many books that I am unable to remember the very first one. It must not have been that memorable. English is a complex mxture of anglo-saxon, old norse, normandy (french), Flemish, and other languages. It has the unique ability to absorb other words into itself. Checkmate for example comes from Persian Shah Mat, or something like "the king is left helpless, the king is stumped". Pretty interesting etymology I must say.
I started reading in first and second grade and ended up getting in trouble in class for reading while everyone else was doing math or something. I loved mysteries so much that I had whole shelves of everything from "Nancy Drew" to "Mysteries A-Z". I read so much that it was actually pissing my teachers off.
Although in 1st grade I had a hard time learning to read(compared to my classmates), now I read so much more then most people my age(I'm going to be in 10th grade this year)
I'm not sure when I started learning to read but I'm from the only officially bilingual province of Canada and after learning to read, write and obviously speak french (my first official language). We started reading English in grade 3.
Nick Nick Thought she was talking about the way it's written, not English itself. Writing can be adapted quite easily to fit all possible spelling patterns (take the phonetic alphabet, for example).
I didn’t learn to read until I was in 5th grade. This was in part due to an earlier temporary hearing loss from ear infections. It took a teacher pulling me and another poor reader aside and teaching us phonics, I think it was. Suddenly everything finally clicked in place and I spent the whole summer lost in books. That said, I have a strong suspicion that I have mild dyslexia, given my reading habits. I am a fairly slow reader still and if I’m unfamiliar with a word, especially compound words, I quite simply cannot sound them out. Reading out loud is a nightmare for me, because I constantly read words here and there wrong or even insert extra words sometimes. And there are times, such as when I am tired, especially when playing a video game, that my reading ability just seems to shut off. I also find that I tend to remember brand labels, when I was working in retail, as images. I often couldn’t tell anyone the brand name of an item I just stocked in the past because I failed to read the name. I did spend time studying and practicing writing in my 20s. Before that I had major difficulty with grammar and spelling. So I while I can and do read, I often find I seem to read differently than most who started reading earlier than myself. They just seem to be more fluent at reading than I ever will be. I also have extreme difficulty reading music and learning foreign languages and have mild dyscalculia as well, and was in learning disability classes throughout elementary school. And no matter how much I want to read classic novels, I find them nearly impossible to read, due to the old fashioned, flowery prose. I usually just settle for watching the movie versions of the classics instead. So I think it’s just something about how my brain works.
i hated reading and writing and listening in class from elementary school to 6th grade but now im the best reader in my class and teachers usually choose me to read over themselves
That's something I like in my language, Portuguese, we don't have to learn words, we only need to know the sound of the letters. Although be easier to learn writing, our grammar rules are too complicated, we have a lot of rules and exceptions for them
I had a pretty good grasp on reading by the end of second grade, but my reading really took off in sixth, by the end of which I was reading at an 11th-grade level. My secret was that my family sprang for a tutoring service. I am a testament to the benefit of a little personal attention. It would be nice if they had done this for pre-algebra. :(
reading came very easy to me, i can read about 700-750 words a minute (cant remember the exact amount but most likely its towards the former end) but that's only when i read in my head, reading aloud is slows me down quite considerably. it mostly has to do with the fact that i read faster than i talk and it makes me trip over words im saying because im already reading the next word while im saying the current one.
When I was in Elementary I was always one of the ones with my hand up to volunteer to read out loud! I absolutely loved reading, or the attention that it brung, one of the two! Lol but now when I read a book which I can say I do about one book every two or three months, most times I find it hard to stay focused for even 30 minutes so it takes me about two weeks to finish One book! That's awkward as hell because ironically when I do pick up a book to read I love it.
TheLarryStudios Never used that tbh. I've used text to voice though. If I then have a recorded voice, maybe I could use voice to text and automatic spell check.
I think I finally understand why I don't have very good language skills. As a math person, I love seeing patterns. Something the English language doesn't do well, which removes the ability to use association for learning thus requires memorization. Perhaps I should ditch English for a different language...
I suffer from Dyslexia. I could read in y own way before going to school. I could looks at a page and pick up what i needed to know and understood it. Then i went to elementary school. *sighs* When they started focusing in on every single letter i just couldnt do th because the letters would rearrange or jump all over the place. It still effects me to this day.
I learned to read before I started school, which really pissed my teachers off. Nowadays, they expect kids to know how to read before they start school, or they think something's wrong with them.
I learned to read before I I joined a kindergarten. I was invested in books as much as possible. If you sent me to a place with books nearby for time-out, you couldn't punish me. I'd sneak a book out. I have a hard time reading now, and I am sad about that.
I think it's schools why we can't learn to read. When I was in kindergarten I learn the alphabet from that but the thing is that didn't really teach me to read that just taught me all the letters. When I really learn to read I taught myself at age 14 the reason it took so long is because school was not helping me to read and pretty much assumed I was not interested in reading and wouldn't really allow me to read myself they had a student read to me. But really it took me till age 14 to learn how to actually read and I was still learning so some words were hard for me. Still some words are hard for me and I can't read to well but trust me I am getting better.
I learnt how to read in year 2 and it was less than a year that I was able to read a whole book almost correctly (0.0) and now I have the highest score in English class
I learned to read by watching anime in japanese dub, forcing myself to read the text then some anime came out and didn't have the translation so I started learning japanese and it was fun so I started learning franch because communicating with the world made me feel like part of it.
The only important thing is that the first and last letters are at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. Easy. If you are more interested in reforming the English language you could join the Anglish moot. It is a bit like Yahoo only the people do not write in English they write everything in Anglish. The idea is to make works more English and less everything else, like Latin for example. Some words are easier to pick up than others. The Anglish moot as been going on for some time now so a lot of the rules have already been established.
I remember when I was little I was constantly making mistakes when reading and writing in Spanish because I learned to read in German (both languages are my mother tongues). My mom bought me Spanish spelling books so I would finally stop writing Spanish words as if they were in German, like writing “ke” instead of “qué” (what) or “sija” instead of “silla” (chair) 😅
What do you think about teaching two languages to a child at the same time. I have been teaching my 6-year-old great granddaughter English and Spanish since she was three. She can read in both fairly well, but she often uses her Spanish knowledge to help herself decode in English.
dnews is great. But, it wouldn't hurt if you spoke slower, took a breath more often, and quit letting your voice ride up at the end of each sentence. Basically, take a few notes from MKBHD.
I'm seeing a lot of truth in this. I'm currently studying to Teach English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), and before doing this, I didn't realise how many idiosyncrasies English has in comparison to other languages! I always thought it was pretty easy, as the letters alphabet guide you into phrasing how a word sounds, but that's not true! Like Julia said, read can have different pronunciations and mean different things! Word stresses can change the meaning of a word, too! For example, if the stress in 'record' is in 're', it's referring to the noun. If the stress is in 'cord', it's referring to the verb.
I am curious to the effect of the english language on the literacy rate, does anyone how the U.S. literary rate compares to Canada, the U.K., Australia and other native english countries?
I know the worlds best reader (not officially, yet), she didn't learn how to read before she was seven, which is quite late, that was in Norwegian though.
Well strangely, I'm French and decided to learn English a few months ago, and it only took me three months to reach a level that afford me to read "fluently"... But I also have a terrible pronunciation, so I guess it compensate ^^
This video became a little helpful for me because I’m 40 year though and I still have difficulty learning how to read better I was only able to spell this what I just wrote down is because the phone in Google spell there for me when I talk but if you have anything just in for me please let me know
I've found english easy to read and write. But that might be because I am from Denmark. I heard somewhere that danish is one of the hardest languages to learn, chinese being the most difficult.
i found out that when i was moved out of school, i suddenly read SO MUCH BETTER. even though I'm only 8 years old, I've read The Candy Shop War. really good book, but really complicated and long. i've also read Harry Potter, the whole series.
Where I come from, everything is read exactly the same way as it is written, there are no "read" vs "read" and similar cases. Also, 99% of us back there in the 70s knew how to read and write in kindergarten.
Hey D News I play the piano and sometimes I try sight reading a piece one day and it's kinda bad, but then I go to bed, and when I wake up the next day I can play it way better than I did only a day ago. Why is this? Like I know its kinda obviously sleeping that's helping me but what part of my sleep and why?
I like Mark Twains reply to his publishers when they complained to him about his poor spelling. "Anyone who can spell a word the same way twice lacks imagination." Yes, English should be over hauled, I had such a hard time learning it growing up, it was my worst subject, all those exceptions. Yet over the years I have gotten better, there are still sometimes I struggle with it.
having Arabic as a native language: I can fairly say that when it comes to structure, English cannot compete with Arabic or even Italian. There is a lot of reduction of content and grammar compared to these languages. makes it easier to figure out, but much less words to go with..
English is the most difficult language to learn because the rules of grammar are not consistent. English is based on more than one root language. ( French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. are Latin based and follow those rules.)
English language is one of the hardest languages to learn because soo many words sound the same and even spell the same but they can all mean diff things. then you have the silent letters in words that feel like they shouldn't be there but they are.
You should know than English is not that hard, this language doesn't have a lot of words and the rules are pretty basic compare to other languages like latin language. And by the way the silent letters in certains words are mainly words from french, in french you have a LOT of silent letters, actually in almost every words, so silent letters are not a caracteristic of the english language, so it's normal for you to have difficulties with that principle of silent letters because it's not a part of the grammaticals rules.
Last March, I stumbled upon this reading guideline “Wamzοzο Loli” (Google it). My son and I have already been serious in performing reading lessons since then. I am happy to report that he has been able to read a few books by himself now. My son is now reading with full confidence and his doing really good in class this year as a Kindergarten student.
I remember I was really young and I was reading aloud in a car. My uncle told me to read in my mind and I was like, "How do you do that?" Then he asked, "You don't know how to read in your mind? Try it then." I tried it and I was mind blown that I WAS READING IN MY MIND! I just thought it was a funny story of when I was young.
Kudos for the Video clip! Forgive me for chiming in, I am interested in your thoughts. Have you thought about - Millawdon Future Ticket Trick (Sure I saw it on Google)? It is a smashing exclusive product for teaching children to read without the headache. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my old buddy Taylor after a lifetime of fighting got astronomical results with it.
I always enjoy that sensation in my head when a word automaticly resolves to its meaning. and its fun how fast it happens.
I'm a survivor of an attempt to re-create the phonetic English writing system. An educational experiment in the 50s-70s utilized here in NY. It is a miracle that I succeeded in overcoming the 'new system' and transitioned to standard English. How? slow, tearful, long periods of time writing and rewriting spelling words from 2nd to 12th grade. The advent of the word processor, when I was in graduate school, helped immensely. Spelling and grammar checkers are helpful BUT can't replace understanding word usage that comes from reading. Today I teach English to refugees and many have never attended school as children. It's hard but I remember how much I wanted to understand those black marks on the pages of the newspaper and books my parents read. We need to be very careful of supporting any effort to revamp English spelling. It will be a wonderful tool to create mass illiterates who will be easy to manipulate through visual media.
why she speaks very fast please slow down
Her mouth was borrowed and she was in a hurry to return it
you're just slow
learning to read and write English was kind of hard for me as a child, I remember struggling with it. learning to read and write Hebrew was a totally different story. Hebrew it was very easy for me.
Hey D news can you guys please do a episode on dyslexia
Like if it is real, how can I get tested and can it be cured
+Titty Mcgee wow.... talk about being compassionate...
+Titty Mcgee thank you. I hope you feel like I man now
Titty Mcgee Dude, you need to chill.
Anger does not solve your issues, and neither does it solve his issue. So why are you mad?
Andre' Foster No one can help you.
You, your self have to put in an extreme amount of work, and you will see improvement.
And to think English as recently as 150 years ago (which isn't relatively much) made sense as far as spelling was concerned. Damn, even our grandfathers had it easier. The problem is that English has been evolving very rapidly, much faster in speech than in writing.
The old pronunciations were difficult/inconvenient (WH as in WHERE or KN as in KNOW for instance) and have been replaced with easier ones, yet people were too hesitant to reform the spellings, simply because too many words have been altering over time, and it would've meant very frequent spellings reforms (even annually) so it just... stayed that way.
As for read [reed] and read [red], the past participle form used to be the same as the infinitve form (much like for "put") but we liked it to follow the same pattern "lead" does, because of the similar pronunciation (the same thing happens to "know"-"known", "blow"-"blown", they're very similar).
A part of the reason is that English has so many words (over a million, compared to the other languages having a 5 digit number of words and doing fine).
This is why so many people have problems distinguishing between even the simplest, most commonly used words such as there/their/they're - these used to be pronounced differently, but it was much more convenient to pronounce them as we do today, and people who so aggressively correct people making these simple mistakes are another part of the reason behind the problem - their conservative attitude towards spelling makes the old, obsolete spellings prevail.
And that comes from someone who's not even a native speaker =)
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Glizdka Homophones really do wreck the brain. Plus having letters with multiple sounds is also a problem as it adds to the number of homophones. I also dislike that some letters simply look too similar to each other like 'O' and 'Q'. Lastly, English borrows a lot of words from other languages, so it's almost like speaking multiple languages instead of just one and then some of those adopted words don't play by the same rules.
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When I first was learning the alphabet in kindergarten... thanks to the teacher , she was sitting on the opposite side of the table, so i ended learning the letters upside down lol. had to relearn everything again and get extra-help with that and reading in first grade :P ...
I recall having a lot of anxiety on my first day of school. My mom was all like "it will be great. They are going to teach you how to read." and I was just like "But how?" and "what if they can't?". She kept on saying they would and (ofc) they did although I did have a few set backs due to mild dyslexia. It was actually my sister that picked up on my dyslexia. Went through 7 years of school without a teacher noticing - but I think that is the thing with dyslexics. We make our own tools to use so that we don't get found out and ashamed for "being too stupid" to read or write :
I'm from sweden and I find spelling in swedish is much harder than in english, cause in swedish E and Ä sometimes sound alike, as does O and Å, so I usually don't know which letter to use. English is easier too me, even if it's more irregular
I had english now for 9 years in school and even though its not perfect or will ever be i feel pretty comfortable in understanding it. And in my opinion that includes hearing and reading. (and btw im german)
i wish they would talk about logographic scripts like chinese and mixed systems like japanese, and the extremely simple korean writing that's so easy most kids are semi-literate before they enter school. so interesting
My mother, forced me to start reading at a very young age. I'm very happy she did it helped me quite a bit in school.
I began reading almost automatically, didn't take me long to figure out at all.
My mom used to read stories to me and my sisters when we were young while we were following along in the book and I have a feeling that helped me a lot.
You guys should start using children's ages rather than grades, as someone from the UK, I have no idea when 3rd grade is. Cool vid though!
Most people are 8-9 years old in 3rd grade. Not counting if they stayed back a grade
keefahh Wait, I thought it was basically the same as if I heard people from the UK say "year 3." For us, basically just add 5, since that's the usual age we start K(Kindergarten, before 1st grade). How does it add up in the UK?
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have different education systems but the English start at reception at 4 the year 1 next year and Scots start P1 at 5 so for both add 4
keefahh It is weird for them to use grade level instead of a child's age when discussing brain development.
keefahh As an Ameircan when people are saying "grade #" I really don't know the ages by grade either, unless I actually start backtrack counting.
So if I don't, my scale of the ages is more like this xD:
(Elementary school -in my area)
Preschool - Kindegarten = young kids
1st-3rd = young but older kids
4th-6th = Well they're older
(Middle School -in my area)
7th-9th = Teenagers right?
(High School.)
10th-11th = Older teenagers!
12th = 17-19 years old on average.
I want someone to place an electrode cap on my head when I am just starring at a word that I know is spelled right but I just think it is wrong, really want to know what is going on there...
I agree
When I first learned how to read it was so magical at the same time it was hard and easy it helped me do you successful.
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I have dyslexia and reading was (and still is) a never ending battle! I'm always intimidated to read full books but I can read articles and such minimal problems. Not sure why my engagement is limited like that but out of my own personal experience, just learning to read was a personal hell to me even when taught coping skills.
AL Smith thank you!!
I've read so many books that I am unable to remember the very first one. It must not have been that memorable. English is a complex mxture of anglo-saxon, old norse, normandy (french), Flemish, and other languages. It has the unique ability to absorb other words into itself. Checkmate for example comes from Persian Shah Mat, or something like "the king is left helpless, the king is stumped". Pretty interesting etymology I must say.
I started reading in first and second grade and ended up getting in trouble in class for reading while everyone else was doing math or something. I loved mysteries so much that I had whole shelves of everything from "Nancy Drew" to "Mysteries A-Z". I read so much that it was actually pissing my teachers off.
learning a new language isnt bad,its just that sometimes i wonder if im learning and understanding the right ones
Although in 1st grade I had a hard time learning to read(compared to my classmates), now I read so much more then most people my age(I'm going to be in 10th grade this year)
I'm not sure when I started learning to read but I'm from the only officially bilingual province of Canada and after learning to read, write and obviously speak french (my first official language). We started reading English in grade 3.
English cannot be over hauled. A language is a living thing. It evolves and changes over time.
Nick Nick Thought she was talking about the way it's written, not English itself. Writing can be adapted quite easily to fit all possible spelling patterns (take the phonetic alphabet, for example).
Nick Nick Hungarian language had an overhaul in the XIX. century. Some reforms remained others perished. So it can bee don.
Textlanguage is creeping in. Lol, omg, and Americanisms. Eg "often times" "fries". I grew up saying often, or chips. Language does evolve and change.
I didn’t learn to read until I was in 5th grade. This was in part due to an earlier temporary hearing loss from ear infections. It took a teacher pulling me and another poor reader aside and teaching us phonics, I think it was. Suddenly everything finally clicked in place and I spent the whole summer lost in books. That said, I have a strong suspicion that I have mild dyslexia, given my reading habits. I am a fairly slow reader still and if I’m unfamiliar with a word, especially compound words, I quite simply cannot sound them out.
Reading out loud is a nightmare for me, because I constantly read words here and there wrong or even insert extra words sometimes. And there are times, such as when I am tired, especially when playing a video game, that my reading ability just seems to shut off.
I also find that I tend to remember brand labels, when I was working in retail, as images. I often couldn’t tell anyone the brand name of an item I just stocked in the past because I failed to read the name.
I did spend time studying and practicing writing in my 20s. Before that I had major difficulty with grammar and spelling. So I while I can and do read, I often find I seem to read differently than most who started reading earlier than myself. They just seem to be more fluent at reading than I ever will be.
I also have extreme difficulty reading music and learning foreign languages and have mild dyscalculia as well, and was in learning disability classes throughout elementary school. And no matter how much I want to read classic novels, I find them nearly impossible to read, due to the old fashioned, flowery prose. I usually just settle for watching the movie versions of the classics instead.
So I think it’s just something about how my brain works.
i hated reading and writing and listening in class from elementary school to 6th grade but now im the best reader in my class and teachers usually choose me to read over themselves
I feel like one must learn to read before even realizing it so that there is no resistance, e.g. like 3 yrs old
I learned to read at 3. It's been immensely helpful.
I was about 5-6 when I started making sense of words. By the time I was about 9-10 I was reading books a few years ahead of my reading level
That's something I like in my language, Portuguese, we don't have to learn words, we only need to know the sound of the letters. Although be easier to learn writing, our grammar rules are too complicated, we have a lot of rules and exceptions for them
I had a pretty good grasp on reading by the end of second grade, but my reading really took off in sixth, by the end of which I was reading at an 11th-grade level. My secret was that my family sprang for a tutoring service. I am a testament to the benefit of a little personal attention. It would be nice if they had done this for pre-algebra. :(
reading came very easy to me, i can read about 700-750 words a minute (cant remember the exact amount but most likely its towards the former end) but that's only when i read in my head, reading aloud is slows me down quite considerably. it mostly has to do with the fact that i read faster than i talk and it makes me trip over words im saying because im already reading the next word while im saying the current one.
My mom said that I learned to read when I was two.
Automatic word processing happens in 4th or 5th grade? Whaaat? I was flying through novels in kindergarten!
1st grade for me
I was reading novels in utero!
i was reading as a fetus
I was reading Shakespeare before I was even conceived! Y'all are so dumb.
Taught myself to read at age 3 - parents did a great job helping me learn the alphabet before I could even talk, so I had a head start. ;D
I am always learning to read new languages . you forgot the joy when you learn and use a new writing system. I wish you did some vid about polyglots
love it it's making me smarter a better reader and a better speller
When I was in Elementary I was always one of the ones with my hand up to volunteer to read out loud! I absolutely loved reading, or the attention that it brung, one of the two! Lol but now when I read a book which I can say I do about one book every two or three months, most times I find it hard to stay focused for even 30 minutes so it takes me about two weeks to finish One book! That's awkward as hell because ironically when I do pick up a book to read I love it.
My biggest secret is I never learned to read.
qqq1701 Mine is I never learned to write. I'm just guessing and faking and make up words to pimp up my comments.
***** I'm using voice to text function :)
You are not blvck lord beats
TheLarryStudios Never used that tbh. I've used text to voice though. If I then have a recorded voice, maybe I could use voice to text and automatic spell check.
qqq1701 me neither
please make an episode about how do seashells form? how do they live and reproduce? thanks! im a huge fan
Dude, Julia's face in the very first frame is PRICELESS!!!
I think learning the braille along with the regular alphabet could make learning both forms easier. Tactile reading (braille) and keyboards?
Keep it up DNews... i love your Channel... nice work Julia
I think I finally understand why I don't have very good language skills. As a math person, I love seeing patterns. Something the English language doesn't do well, which removes the ability to use association for learning thus requires memorization. Perhaps I should ditch English for a different language...
my first book was Huckelberry fin and i loved it
was reading words from newspapers at age 4, it's not that hard
Not everyone can be black fuck off
I could read newspapers at 4 also and I'm not black fuck off.
What does science say about verbal reading (normal reading), visual reading (speed reading), and photo-reading?
I learned fluent English in like the 7th grade, after learning it 3 hours a week for 6 years in Norway
I have really vivid memories of learning to read.
I suffer from Dyslexia. I could read in y own way before going to school. I could looks at a page and pick up what i needed to know and understood it. Then i went to elementary school. *sighs* When they started focusing in on every single letter i just couldnt do th because the letters would rearrange or jump all over the place. It still effects me to this day.
I learned to read before I started school, which really pissed my teachers off. Nowadays, they expect kids to know how to read before they start school, or they think something's wrong with them.
it was librating. I am 23 and only have a grand 2 reading lever. but il never give up. Lemony Snichet is a grate books to ne reading
That's why I love Serbian Cyrillic. Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic said "Write as you speak, read as it's written."
I learned to read before I I joined a kindergarten. I was invested in books as much as possible. If you sent me to a place with books nearby for time-out, you couldn't punish me. I'd sneak a book out. I have a hard time reading now, and I am sad about that.
I think it's schools why we can't learn to read. When I was in kindergarten I learn the alphabet from that but the thing is that didn't really teach me to read that just taught me all the letters. When I really learn to read I taught myself at age 14 the reason it took so long is because school was not helping me to read and pretty much assumed I was not interested in reading and wouldn't really allow me to read myself they had a student read to me. But really it took me till age 14 to learn how to actually read and I was still learning so some words were hard for me. Still some words are hard for me and I can't read to well but trust me I am getting better.
I learnt how to read in year 2 and it was less than a year that I was able to read a whole book almost correctly (0.0) and now I have the highest score in English class
I learned to read by watching anime in japanese dub, forcing myself to read the text then some anime came out and didn't have the translation so I started learning japanese and it was fun so I started learning franch because communicating with the world made me feel like part of it.
How do people know their reading level
Is it the types of books you read, did you get tested or is it the vocab you understand
The only important thing is that the first and last letters are at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. Easy. If you are more interested in reforming the English language you could join the Anglish moot. It is a bit like Yahoo only the people do not write in English they write everything in Anglish. The idea is to make works more English and less everything else, like Latin for example. Some words are easier to pick up than others. The Anglish moot as been going on for some time now so a lot of the rules have already been established.
I remember when I was little I was constantly making mistakes when reading and writing in Spanish because I learned to read in German (both languages are my mother tongues). My mom bought me Spanish spelling books so I would finally stop writing Spanish words as if they were in German, like writing “ke” instead of “qué” (what) or “sija” instead of “silla” (chair) 😅
You guys should do a video on a coma. Or on test tube plus. It's super interesting
What do you think about teaching two languages to a child at the same time. I have been teaching my 6-year-old great granddaughter English and Spanish since she was three. She can read in both fairly well, but she often uses her Spanish knowledge to help herself decode in English.
Please do a video about the different alphabets around the world.
Anyone read the book called " to kill a mocking bird?" If you did how old were you when your read it and how was it?
I'm a freshman and have college reading level. I love to read
What is 4th and 5th grade? How about just telling us the kids' age? We are not all Americans, you know.
Americans usually start school at the age of 5 yr.s The kids in 4th Grade would be 9 years old; 5th Graders would be 10 yr.s old. Cheers.
Plz make a video about cars changing color when water is thrown on them
That definitely happened early for me, like 2nd grade
dnews is great. But, it wouldn't hurt if you spoke slower, took a breath more often, and quit letting your voice ride up at the end of each sentence. Basically, take a few notes from MKBHD.
why do kids learn faster than adults?
I'm seeing a lot of truth in this. I'm currently studying to Teach English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), and before doing this, I didn't realise how many idiosyncrasies English has in comparison to other languages! I always thought it was pretty easy, as the letters alphabet guide you into phrasing how a word sounds, but that's not true!
Like Julia said, read can have different pronunciations and mean different things! Word stresses can change the meaning of a word, too! For example, if the stress in 'record' is in 're', it's referring to the noun. If the stress is in 'cord', it's referring to the verb.
Thank you this was very helpful and informative 👍👍
i feel like this girl is most of D News. she does a lot of work
Important is spelled with an e in the jumbled slide. I know spelling is important because i couldn't recognize the word at first glance.
I am curious to the effect of the english language on the literacy rate, does anyone how the U.S. literary rate compares to Canada, the U.K., Australia and other native english countries?
When I first learned to read I felt like I discovered Atlantis so I was compelled to teach others... anyone.
Emojis are going to replace the written word anyways. sigh
Is there any evidence about other countries having slower written language learning because they are studying and living in multiple languages?
I know the worlds best reader (not officially, yet), she didn't learn how to read before she was seven, which is quite late, that was in Norwegian though.
Well strangely, I'm French and decided to learn English a few months ago, and it only took me three months to reach a level that afford me to read "fluently"... But I also have a terrible pronunciation, so I guess it compensate ^^
This video became a little helpful for me because I’m 40 year though and I still have difficulty learning how to read better I was only able to spell this what I just wrote down is because the phone in Google spell there for me when I talk but if you have anything just in for me please let me know
I've found english easy to read and write. But that might be because I am from Denmark. I heard somewhere that danish is one of the hardest languages to learn, chinese being the most difficult.
i found out that when i was moved out of school, i suddenly read SO MUCH BETTER. even though I'm only 8 years old, I've read The Candy Shop War. really good book, but really complicated and long. i've also read Harry Potter, the whole series.
Where I come from, everything is read exactly the same way as it is written, there are no "read" vs "read" and similar cases. Also, 99% of us back there in the 70s knew how to read and write in kindergarten.
Hey D news can you please talk about dyslexia I have it and I wanna learn more about it.
Hey D News I play the piano and sometimes I try sight reading a piece one day and it's kinda bad, but then I go to bed, and when I wake up the next day I can play it way better than I did only a day ago. Why is this? Like I know its kinda obviously sleeping that's helping me but what part of my sleep and why?
I like Mark Twains reply to his publishers when they complained to him about his poor spelling. "Anyone who can spell a word the same way twice lacks imagination."
Yes, English should be over hauled, I had such a hard time learning it growing up, it was my worst subject, all those exceptions. Yet over the years I have gotten better, there are still sometimes I struggle with it.
Julia you have a uncanny resemblance to Ygritte.
Her sexy big teeth?
What happens before we are born ?
What stages are we in.
Are we in. Darkness or just nothing
having Arabic as a native language:
I can fairly say that when it comes to structure, English cannot compete with Arabic or even Italian. There is a lot of reduction of content and grammar compared to these languages. makes it easier to figure out, but much less words to go with..
when I learned to read , I read green eggs and ham probably about 40 times before getting board xd
Where was this video when I was in 3rd grade and learning English!!! English is the weirdest language ever!!!
Only if you didn't learn english
I got my butt whooped for not being able to read some words and almost failing :(
English is the most difficult language to learn because the rules of grammar are not consistent. English is based on more than one root language. ( French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. are Latin based and follow those rules.)
how does dyslexia effect the mind/brain , and it's ability to learn?
Should i read word by word in begining of learning to read or focus on setence ? Plz help me sombody ? What’s right way ?
it makes me feel better and smart
English language is one of the hardest languages to learn because soo many words sound the same and even spell the same but they can all mean diff things. then you have the silent letters in words that feel like they shouldn't be there but they are.
SteelCity1981 People say it is the easiest.
You should know than English is not that hard, this language doesn't have a lot of words and the rules are pretty basic compare to other languages like latin language. And by the way the silent letters in certains words are mainly words from french, in french you have a LOT of silent letters, actually in almost every words, so silent letters are not a caracteristic of the english language, so it's normal for you to have difficulties with that principle of silent letters because it's not a part of the grammaticals rules.
Last March, I stumbled upon this reading guideline “Wamzοzο Loli” (Google it). My son and I have already been serious in performing reading lessons since then. I am happy to report that he has been able to read a few books by himself now. My son is now reading with full confidence and his doing really good in class this year as a Kindergarten student.
it could be a good idea to fix those words
When i first learn how to learn i thought wow reading is amazing
Do a video on dyslexia please
'Does English need an overhaul?' - I think the Americans have already seen to that. Surely you don't need to simplify it further?