Learning something really difficult anyone?

Pattern cutting - a mix between geometry, origami and dressmaking.

Bryophytes and fungi. And chemistry. And existentialism.

I am learning Latin. I didn't do it at school but always had a hankering. I love it but have great difficulty in remembering what has been taught. Fortunately the teacher allows us the use of dictionaries and blatant copying.

I took piano lessons with a man who was director of the Sheffield Oratorio Chorus - a truly wonderful choir. When I complained that my sight reading didn't seem to be improving, he said many members of his choir struggled with sight reading but still managed to learn the music and sing brilliantly. I am currently trying to learn to play Bach's Prelude in D Minor, and after the first sixteen bars - when, like a lot of Bach's music, it goes off at something of a tangent - I am having to take it a couple of bars at a time. As Luckygirl said, over and over again. It is slow going and I seem to have been at it for a long time! Don't book the Albert Hall yet!

nellie are you aware that you can get some transparent overlay that's designed for people who find reading musical notation difficult (including people with dyslexia)?

I've just started a Theory Diploma in music. That's difficult enough for me, at least for the time being.

I am learning Spanish in French. The teacher mumbles really fast in both languages and sometimes I struggle to know which one he is speaking.

The best way to omprove sight-reading is to do it! - over and over again!

I run an unauditioned choir for all-comers and it is fascinating how some of the non-readers are really brilliant now - they have learned how to do it simply by doing it with no complicated theoretical explanations.

I find learning the music for the choirs I am in is quite difficult. I am just picking it up as I am going along although I did some basic piano for a few years.
Dyslexia means I have poor visual memory and I need to read stuff over several times before I can remember it.
It also makes it hard work to follow scores where notes are close together. My sight reading is improving with time though.

I taught myself New testament Greek about 10 years ago mainly using tapes an old bible and some battered lexicons, but I'm afraid it hasn't stuck - I would really need to start all over!

I only learnt French to 'o'-level at school so to revisit it for teaching purposes, some 30+ years later has been interesting. I might have to get to grips with a bit of basic Spanish and German soon in my new job. I just try to keep a step ahead of my pupils .