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I learned to recognize individual letters at ~18 months old, and read fluently at ~3yo (by way of adults responding to my curiosity about letters). I’m 41 now;
by nathell 1y ago
I learned to recognize individual letters at ~18 months old, and read fluently at ~3yo (by way of adults responding to my curiosity about letters).
I’m 41 now; AMA.
- lostmsu 1y agoWhat's your IQ in adult ages and how did you do on SAT? Have you ever done any form of science Olympics?
- nathell 1y agoIt’s something like 130. I was educated in Poland, so never passed SAT, but did well at the ~equivalent matura. At the uni, I was a mediocre-ish student, though. I approached the math olympiad back in high school, but found it too challenging. Looking backwards, I think I might have benefitted from having a better math teacher.
- bmacho 1y agoDid you learn to read Polish or English at that age? As someone whose first language is written as it is spoken, I believe that reading English for English kids is much-much-much harder. Reading in a language with a letter-sound correspondence is entirely trivial. You speak that language, you learn the characters, you're done. Reading English requires to learn an entirely new language, hundreds of words. (Especially if reading English is taught simultaneously with writing English--I don't know about that.) I can't find any real studies about this subject with numbers; how much effort does it take for an Italian/Spanish/Finnish/Polish/.. kid to learn to read vs for English kids. Or, for example how many of them are able to 'teach themselves' to read just by looking at the picture books, and asking parents about letters.
- asvitkine 1y agoHow was your elementary school experience?