Reply #31: Frustrating as all hell.

[hunter]

I've got a touch of that. If I can't write something down as I hear it, it's gone. If I'm not concentrating on hearing spoken language, it might as well be some language I don't understand . I know what English sounds like as a foreign language because that's the way I hear it whenever I'm not paying attention.

My favorite way to watch television is with subtitles or closed captions on and the sound turned down to almost nothing so the voices don't distract me.

Reading and writing have always been essential to my language skills. Even in ordinary conversation I feel and see the words in my head more than I hear them. It's like my hands know what I want to say before my mouth does.