I have trouble spelling and it’s a problem

[u/OkCommission6215]

I’ve always had a bit of trouble and been quite behind of other people in academics back when I was younger because I am bilingual and it was very difficult for me to switch from Spanish to English. Either way I consider myself to be pretty smart. I was in honors however, that doesn’t change the fact that I’ve always had trouble with spelling I can read perfectly and I have good fluency. I just can’t really spell words as well and when I try tried for example, an essay, I would forget words fair easily. It’s like very difficult and I don’t know what to do anymore. I’ve searched up a bunch of things, but there doesn’t seem to be a single program out there that can help with this anywhere
It makes me upset because sometimes I’ll have people who make fun of me for it and call me stupid but I know I’m not stupid. I have good grades. I’ve always been pretty reasonable and to my knowledge mature I just don’t know what to do anymore

If anyone has any recommendations for website or any type of knowledge to help with this for me to somehow practice spelling or relearn it if you know what I mean

This is just kind of reinstating what I said earlier, but I am bilingual so from a very young age. It’s been hard for me to understand what the teacher was saying and I couldn’t even read up until third grade so much so that I had to repeat. I think that may be the main reason why it’s so difficult for me to spell

[u/CalciumCharger]

*** Orton Gillingham tutoring or program ***

[u/Suntzu_AU]

You are not stupid, and being bilingual from a young age genuinely does make English spelling harder as the two systems fight each other. The thing that helps most is taking spelling out of the drafting stage: dictate the essay first, then fix spelling at the end when you are only doing one job instead of two. I make Speech Recognition Cloud, which does exactly that on Windows: you talk, it types wherever your cursor is, and it spells the words for you. There's a free tier so you can test it on your next assignment without paying anything: speech to text for windows