Apparently, some schools in the U.S. didn’t teach phonics until recently (2014).

Did anyone here learn phonics in school?

  • 🕸️ Pip 🕷️@slrpnk.net
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    15 hours ago

    Since I come from a culture where our alphabet is actually consistent to how you pronounce things with no exceptions:

    no.

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      6 hours ago

      Sure your country’s high grammar might be consistent, but the general day-to-day would have influences from other languages that can’t be so neatly categorised, and their pronounciation would differ from region to region

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      Well technically that is phonics, you see a new word, as a learner, you know how to sound it out. Compared to the Whole Word learning method where somebody has to teach you what a word says. English is a nasty mess of both.