Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
by lordnacho on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:25AM
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I caught up with my old French teacher, who also taught German in high school.
He told me there was value in doing dictations in French, but in German he just stopped because it was so simple. Kids would barely ever get anything wrong. I have to say I agree, having done a bit of both.
English has enough weird spellings that kids seem to have to practice it a lot. 85-90% isn't actually all that high, you're going to run into a weird one pretty soon if you're writing an essay.
He told me there was value in doing dictations in French, but in German he just stopped because it was so simple. Kids would barely ever get anything wrong. I have to say I agree, having done a bit of both.
English has enough weird spellings that kids seem to have to practice it a lot. 85-90% isn't actually all that high, you're going to run into a weird one pretty soon if you're writing an essay.