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		Techniques and methods in Language Teaching > Believe it or not, you can read this!     
			
		 Believe it or not, you can read this! 
		
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 skudjova
 
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							| Believe it or not, you can read this! 
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							| I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at
 Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn�t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
 are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in
 the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
 wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
 lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe . . . Amzanig huh!
 Psas It ON!
 Remember that when you correct your students!
  
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 Vana
 
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							| This will be very useful with all of my learners. Thank you for sharing this information. Have a nice day! |  3 Feb 2009     
					
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 alien boy
 
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							| Yes, it is quite amazing isn�t it. Many of my Japanese friends & colleagues didn�t realise (or believe) that this can happen for native or fluent English readers. 
 Japanese uses pictographic & syllabic systems and it doesn�t work the same way for word construction.
 
 Does it work with Arabic or Cyrillic characters too?
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 marileia
 
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							| �Oh my God you�re right!!!!! Amazing! I read it without slowing down the pace I usually read! I think I had heard of that but I had totally forgotten it! Amazing! 
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 chorima
 
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							| IT�S AMAZING... and how little we know about our brain and how it works. many thanks |  3 Feb 2009     
					
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 skudjova
 
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							| It�s amazing, isn�t it! And it works with the Cyrillic alphabet, too! |  3 Feb 2009     
					
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 Ivona
 
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							| Yes, it works with Cyrilic, too. I had to text a friend to see if she would comprehend the message. I thought it would be different because Serbian has phonemic orthography (30 letters=30 phonemes) and because we "write as we speak, [and] read as it is written" (thanks to the Serbian language reformer, Vuk Karadzic (1787-1864)).
 Admittedly, i made an erroneous assumption. My friend was not discombobulated a bit by the text!
  
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 BRAHIM S
 
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							| Wonderful!!!!   To Alien boy As a Moroccan born, Arabic being my native language, I am not at all sure it works with arabic |  4 Feb 2009     
					
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 moravc
 
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							| I suppose this works with slavic languages pretty well... Slovak, Czech, Polish, Russian - no problem. I have already seen a similar e-mail in Czech and I was really amazed. I didn �t know it works in English too :-)
 Thanks a lot for pointing...
 Lovely idea, Alien_boy.
 
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 Caroline565
 
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							| That is awsome..it really works!!!!!!!!! |  17 Mar 2009     
					
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