Implications on memory exercising and language ?

[Externet]

Hi all.

 

Written English and chinese seem to me, a native spaniard; very memory intensive comparatively.

 

In spanish, you do not have to memorize how to spell, words never heard before are easily written with no previous knowledge. A new written word can be pronounced properly with no previous knowledge. It is a fonetic language.

 

You may not want to hear me to say the simple word 'focus' with my accent. That triggered this post.

 

Well, ¿ would the forced memory exercising due to a language that is not fonetic play any role in better brain capabilities in lives of non fonetic speaking people ?

 

Miguel

[Mr Skeptic]

I think that it actually hinders. A lot of time is wasted on spelling, even among Americans. I grew up bilingual, Spanish/English, btw. I rather like how spelling is so easy in Spanish, and the inverted punctuation marks at the start of a question or exclamation. I guess Spanish is a more direct text-to-speech language.

 

Maybe English makes us exercise our brains more to use, but it also wastes a lot of time.