Hello! My name is Taryn, I currently live in Tenneessee in the United States and I am so happy to be here =)
I am studying Linguistics and Anthropology in University, but I also study many other things because wow nothing can keep my interest for very long haha.
Some fun facts about me: I am Dyslexic. It’s quite hilarious how I just torture myself with languages haha I am very active on tumblr, and I try to spread knowledge about a language and its culture.
Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well! =)
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Hi Taryn, that’s such a cool major to have. Nice to meet you, hope you’ll have fun here until the conference starts!
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I love that you’re dyslexic but still study languages! I’m a high school language teacher. Do you have any advice on supporting dyslexic students in an additional language class? If you have any good strategies, I’d love to hear them 
Thanks in advance!
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A little bit of everything to be honest haha. But my main focus is French, Swedish, Japanese and Dutch haha
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the biggest thing that helps me is listening practice. the more I focused on how the words sounds and the phonology of it, the more I was able to understand and learn it. I also found that studying english with the other language actually helped me in both scenarios. Like before I started with french -french is the first language I learned so i’ll use it as an example- I had a real tough time knowing what an adverb versus adjective and all that fun stuff was. but the more i learned about vocab in french the more I was able to incorporate it into english and it helped me a lot.
but yea lol, for the most part I have to be speaking out loud when I’m writing a word down for me not to mess it up entirely. English kind of sucks when it comes to spelling and the way words sounds, but luckily for most other languages, it’s pretty phonetic. I know for sure ASL and spanish seem to be the ones most Dyslexic students have an easier time learning.
we just learn a lot slower than most students lol and it sucks so I’d also say just on the general to be supportive of that. Imposter syndrome was so real and I felt like I was getting nowhere in high school because of how fast everyone was picking things up compared to me lol.
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Thanks for sharing! What you say sounds like good teaching in general, not just for dyslexic students.
I’m currently teaching French and it’s not so phonetic, sadly. It’s a struggle for all students, so I feel sorry for my students with dyslexia. I’ve also taught Spanish in the past, which is much more logical for students to figure out, as you say.
Sorry to hear about your experience with imposter syndrome 
It must be incredibly frustrating to have a disability holding you back. I’m glad to hear you stuck with it
Omg yea haha
it took my long after high school to get the hang of French and now I’m the one tutoring people as I’m getting tutored in English LOL