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Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read.
The University of Haifa team say people use both sides of their brain when they begin reading a language - but when learning Arabic this is wasting effort.
The detail of Arabic characters means students should use only the left side of their brain because that side is better at distinguishing detail.
The findings from the study of 40 people are reported in Neuropsychology.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11181457
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What a way to victimise a group of people... Are they serious?... What about Chinese, Japanese, Cyrilic, Greek and HEBREW???? And what about Gustaphianan or Yiddish to spell "bagel"?
- By Gus Leonisky at 4 Sep 2010 - 4:57pm
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The researchers looked at 40 university students. Some of the students only spoke Hebrew, while some also spoke and read Arabic well.
In order to work out which side of the brain reads letters, the researchers flashed letters for a 10th of a second to one side of a screen or the other.
When the eyes see something for just a short time, and it is at one side of a screen, only one brain hemisphere is quick enough to process the image.
The team measured how fast and how accurate the students were when they tried to tell letters apart, first in Hebrew and then in Arabic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11181457
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Gus: I could not remember either...