Dyslexia is a disorder that can cause immense challenges for young people trying to learn how to read and write. In some instances, it can even affect the learning of mathematics or cause short-term memory problems. If left unaddressed, dyslexia can continue to cause complications in later life.

Current consensus suggests that dyslexia can be successfully managed, but not completely cured. Fascinatingly, some studies have found that learning the written language and alphabet of the Ancient Greeks can spur changes in brain development that help stave off the onset of dyslexia.

Lês fierder by Ancient Origins… Lês fierder

Meikoarten kinne wy wer te stimmen. Ik leau dat it noch noait sa yngewikkeld west hat as dizze kear. It makket nammentlik neat út op hokker partij jo stimme, der is trochrekkene wurden troch de offisjele ynstituten dat elkenien der by alle partijen op foarút gean sil. Jo sille dus nei oare dingen sjen moatte om jo stim te bepalen. En dan mar yn goed betrouwen ôfwachtsje oft ien en oar ek wat fertuten dwaan sil.

Earst efkes oer de proseduere. Der is in tige omfangrike lanlike kampanje dy’t seit dat wy trije dagen lang stimme kinne. Dat ha se sa útfûn om swak, sike en mislike lju de kâns te jaan net altefolle oare swakke, sike en mislike lju tsjin te kommen.… Lês fierder

In the spring of 1972, fascinated by the life and work of Franz Kafka, Philip Roth decided to visit Prague. He returned the following year to see how writers were managing to work under “conditions that were utterly alien to my own writing experience.” In preparation, he read as much as he could find of the work of contemporary Czech writers. He met and became friends with several writers, which led him to look for works in English translation by novelists working throughout Eastern Europe — still behind the Iron Curtain — since the end of World War Two.

Lês fierder by The Neglected Books Page… Lês fierder

It earste Fryske Boekebal wie yn 1997. It wie de iepening fan de Fryske Boekewike. Dat evenemint waard doe al in pear jier organisearre troch stichting It Fryske Boek om’t de Fryske literatuer yn de boekwinkels net genôch omtinken krije soe. Dy earste jierren waard de boekewike iepene mei it Skriuwersmiel, in literêr itentsje foar skriuwers. Om de lêzers der mear by te belûken krige Fryslân yn 1997, nei Amsterdamsk foarbyld, in eigen boekebal.

Lês en sjoch fierder by Omrop Fryslân… Lês fierder