On the All Blogs page under Friends I came across this fascinating post by one of our lesser known members, [lesser know to this forum, that is]:
Arabic Reading Acquisition (Science Daily) by OrangeRoomStudios
Science Daily reports here on brain research about the difficulty of reading acquisition in Arabic. Research done at the University of Haifa in Israel investigated the idea that the visual complexity of written Arabic causes “perceptual overload“, making reading slower and more difficult than reading in other languages.
We Japanese are supposed to use both right and left brains while we are reading Japanese sentences. I don’t know if this statement is true or not because I have no knowledge of it.
According to this test I am totally right-brained. I can’t believe! After all I am a programmer and I am right-handed. On the other hand, I am sort of ambidextrous…
Wow, at first the dancer turned just to the right, but then when I put on my glasses and stared sternly at her, she turned direction. Wonderfully weird. Thank you.
As to the left and right brain function in learning to read: they are talking about children’s learning patterns. I have had no difficulty to learn to read the Cyrillic and Arabic scripts, as an adult (Arabic as a fairly mature adult).
Wow, what a fascinating video (and it led me to watch a video by Victor Frankl, whose ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ I read at least once a year, just to remind me of what we are capable). Thank you, ytk031.