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re: For those who know foreign languages, what are some weird things about English?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 2:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 7/1/20 at 2:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
One of the biggest issues with the English language, as far as reading acquisition and spelling, is we have an incomplete alphabet. We have 26 letters representing 44 sounds. There should be a 1-1 letter to sound correspondence. Increasing the alphabet will be a little more of a learning curve early, but it will make much easier to read and write with phonetic accuracy.
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Posted on 7/1/20 at 2:39 pm to Seeker
Teaching my daughter to read and the book we’re using kinda touches on this.
She’s learned sh, ch, th sounds before she’s learned b, j, y, and some other sounds. The way the book is written, the 2 letters are connected to make it look like it’s a single letter.
She’s learned sh, ch, th sounds before she’s learned b, j, y, and some other sounds. The way the book is written, the 2 letters are connected to make it look like it’s a single letter.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 3:07 pm to Seeker
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We have 26 letters representing 44 sounds
Studying Russian, the Cyrillic alphabet makes infinitely more sense than what we use. It's far more precise. There's realistically only one way to write something, and it makes learning pronunciation much more straightforward.
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