Oh no there's this other thing and now dyslexic what an earth does that mean.

I needed to learn English which is a little bit harder to learn.

Spelling, recognizing words, filling in gaps, that's where I just did not do well.

A native English speaker shouldn't be making those mistakes. I make those mistakes on a

regular basis. The underlying quantity process would be different across

different rights systems. So it is completely possible that a child can be normal in one language but

dyslexing in another.

Dyslexia literally means a difficulty with words. It's a condition that affects one in five of us worldwide.

Words are at the core of communication. They are used as a measure of intelligence. Every test, every entrance

exam, every job application relies on them. And we dyslexits can easily fail.

Educators, neurologists and linguists have different approaches, but research shows that the

language we learn to speak, read and write in has an impact.

This is dyslexia on the BBC World Service, a two-part series told and produced by people

with dyslexia.

I am Toby Withers. We have asked people with dyslexia around the world to share their experiences. Hi, I'm Olivia. I'm 15 years old and I'm from Israel. So I'm going to take an example of someone with

dyslexia. How about myself? I have like severe dyslexia when I was very very little like when I was just

starting to learn how to read my mother she asked me to you know read this paragraph and

I just remember seeing the words just like fall off the pages.

In this first program I want to find out why it's possible to be dyslexic in one language and not another.

Exactly what happens in our brains in order to recognize a system of lines and markings

that may or may not be words.

At the age of eight I was taken to an educational

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