@cosmic-energy4 saidI hope you're not a psychic fishing for a hit (especially if you work for some kind of intelligence agency, which might be indicated by the uncharacteristic anomalies in this particular post of yours), but this morning over here I was having an imaginary convo with my late Dad about different levels of phonetically spelled languages among those which do use alphabets, where of course English is farther down the scale compared to many European languages when it comes to a reliable correspondence between the spelling and the sound.
Why English language have to have spelling and not use phonetics,the children have to spend hrs.in learnig to spell words instead use that time in other subjects more important ?.
As for me, it has been a long time since I was in school. Do students even need to know how to spell or write? Can't they just talk into their phones and have the phone write it for them? 😉
From my brief stint as a foreign-language tutor decades ago, this is what I can offer: don't try to understand or rationalize the other language in terms of your birth language -- just accept it and learn it as it is on its own terms.
I don't know what other languages you might be familiar with, but maybe a tip could be to just learn the "look" of English words, similar to learning hanzi or kanji.
@Paul-Martin ; My background is not Anglo background,I had a sister in law she was a teacher, I asked this question? if you look up you see the MOON, you fix samethink you use a TOOL, winter is COOL phonetically double OO,is pronation U, but if want to enter the hose you open the DOOR, and OO is becomes U. She had no answer. Because I came to this country on my own , at the age of 18, I had to work to make a living,therefore my speling is only 50-60% correct,but at 83 years old who gives a sh##.
@cosmic-energy4 saidFirst: congratulations on your survival so far.
@Arkturos; At 83 years old I manage 50-60%, but no wonder that so many children become illiterates.English should language should go phonetics just as they change to decimal.
I gather that G. B. Shaw did propose a phonetic "Shavian" alphabet for the English language -- probably for the same reason you have in mind: to increase literacy in English and to make literacy in that/this language easier to develop -- but it didn't catch on.
But as you seem to live much closer to east Asia than I do, how could we account for a difference in human capacity to learn written Japanese or Modern Mandarin versus learning English (which many students in China, Japan, and Taiwan also learn as a second language in high school)?
@cosmic-energy4 saidWhen did you begin to learn English? How many years ago?
@Arkturos;To me what humans should adopt to make life easier is adaptation and simplicity unfortunately there is people that hangs on to traditions good or bad,lucky that I'm verry adoptable.
@cosmic-energy4 saidIt's difficult to believe that such a clever person as you could be so unobservant.
@Arkturos; It took me about 18 months to converse,and about 3 years to read and reasonable to wright.
@cosmic-energy4 saidNeither is happening anytime soon.
@Arkturos; At 83 years old I manage 50-60%, but no wonder that so many children become illiterates.English should language should go phonetics just as they change to decimal.
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I believe it has to do with origin and culture. If you go back in time and look at written text then, you will find that English was very different. Languages change over time. Good night - or good nite? I prefer 'night'.
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@Torunn saidIndeed like “wobbly pops” to “beers”. Much less writing.
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I believe it has to do with origin and culture. If you go back in time and look at written text then, you will find that English was very different. Languages change over time. Good night - or good nite? I prefer 'night'.