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Re:Unearthing long ignored African writing system, researche... by samus on Monday January 02, 2023 @09:29AM (#34218190)
I have observed that being exposed to learning to read the English alphabet as the first Latin Alphabet leads to bad habits when learning to read other Latin-based scripts later on. Even if English is not the mother tongue of the speaker. Dunno if that is the case for French as well, as it also uses the Latin alphabet in a peculiar way.
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Re:Unearthing long ignored African writing system, researche... by rpastuszak on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:15AM (#34247391)
Yeah, In my experience understanding the history of the language and phonetics helps a lot with those situations. And, obv. things get easier with exposure to more languages as new patterns start to emerge.

I'd always find it funny when be English friends would point our how difficult to read Polish is, where (with one small exception most native speakers wouldn't notice) the alphabet corresponds to the pronunciation.

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