I’m one of those who always struggled with spelling.
Every Friday at junior school we would sit in muted silence and have to spell out words like ‘muted’ and ‘silence’ and sometimes longer words like ‘miscellaneous’ and ‘discombobulate’. Nowadays, rote learning is out of favour (sorry – ‘favor’ for you guys in the States) but back then we just went over and over it till it stuck. If we got any wrong, some random child would be hauled out to write the correct spelling on the board in front of the class. It was enough to make anybody anxious – and anxiety inhibits the learning process. This is why many people who were anxious at school come to believe they are just ‘not naturally good learners’, when in fact they were just… anxious at school.
Give a dog a misspelled name and flog him
We all label ourselves and for years I labelled myself a ‘bad speller’. With inverted pride I would even proclaim that I was a ‘terrible speller’, ‘a disasteraus speeler’ an irrecoverably ‘genaticallly awfral mizspellier’ of the English language. But then I got really interested in how we learn and remember things. Why couldn’t my spelling be a ‘work in progress’? Why couldn’t I tell people (lucky people who got to listen to me) that I was an ‘improving speller’? We are not as stuck with poor spelling as we assume. If we truly couldn’t learn to spell then you or I would never have learnt the spelling of one single word.
Hypnosis for better spelling
The download Better spelling for hypnosisdownloads.com provides clear strategies and tips as well as hypnotic suggestions for greatly improved spelling. When spelling improves we actually become more time efficient, because we don’t have to spend time to check the spell check to see if it has entirely misinterpreted what we were trying to say by allowing a word with correct spelling but wring meaning to remain un-highlighted.
If I succeed in learning to spell really well, I’m going to apply for a place at Hogwarts. I hear they take mature students now.
Mark
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