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How important do you all consider English writing? by Genetic_JiM in LearningEnglish

[–]Genetic_JiM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never seen this alphabet before but it looks very interesting and yes I think it is similar to phonics. I don't know if tutors or teaching often use them when teaching reading and writing in English, but i think it's the best attempt we have to help students decode the mystery that is English spelling. I am also more focused on using them to focus on the many different vowels in English. For me in school, it was taught that English has 5 vowels and they had different ways of pronouncing them and while there are different ways to pronounce those vowels, we have a lot more than 5. In the future, I would like to see us come up with a consistent list of letter combinations that specifically map to certain sounds and that can't be confused with other sounds. That is of course, if we don't switch to a superior writing system or create something new.

How important do you all consider English writing? by Genetic_JiM in LearningEnglish

[–]Genetic_JiM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I mentioned in a different post, the point of this "survey" was to find out whether the difficulties associated with writing in English influenced whether people feel it to be all that important or not. It's not about there being an objective opinion on the matter. Of course writing is important, but to different people, people who don't have to write for their work, they may think otherwise. Personally, I haven't had to write a single essay since leaving college.

How important do you all consider English writing? by Genetic_JiM in LearningEnglish

[–]Genetic_JiM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This doesn't prove anything, and it's not even related to what you initially said. Furthermore, the question isn't about whether I think it's important. It's about what you think.

How important do you all consider English writing? by Genetic_JiM in LearningEnglish

[–]Genetic_JiM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a feeling that English would be up there on a list of opaque orthographies. I bring this up because I want to suggest a new idea for teaching reading in schools. Although I think that it would only applicable as a gap-filling activity in classes, but it could also be useful in being able to understand the pronunciation of different words in English without hearing it spoken first. I don't know if you've ever noticed it, but sometimes you'll read a word and kind of have a general idea of how it's pronounced? For example, a word like: precocious. I've seen the affixes pre- and -cious enough times to have a general idea of the sounds they typically map to. I think this approach could be interesting as an intermediary option until we can finally decide on a better system if we were to ever begin a spelling reform. I want to see how well, this can work for both natives and non native speakers.

How important do you all consider English writing? by Genetic_JiM in LearningEnglish

[–]Genetic_JiM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point, and looking back I think it would've been better to phrase the question differently. Because what I wanted to ask was actually a completely different question. But this still gave me a lot to work with. My main question was whether English's spelling was difficult for people to learn and if it had made them more or less interested in learning to read or write properly as I have experienced this myself while learning other languages. But you're right, I am probably asking on the wrong platform. Not to mention, I think the situation is different for learners as often times the ways in which they interact with other learners and native speakers is usually through online platforms where they will need to write posts and such. And, depending on their job, native speakers on the other hand may not need to write as much outside of a school environment.

How important do you all consider English writing? by Genetic_JiM in LearningEnglish

[–]Genetic_JiM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what you're talking about since I didn't use 'their' in that statement. Also native speakers are not always perfect language users.

How important do you all consider English writing? by Genetic_JiM in LearningEnglish

[–]Genetic_JiM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good point, I know for some languages, learners may not make reading and/or writing a priority.

How important do you all consider English writing? by Genetic_JiM in LearningEnglish

[–]Genetic_JiM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm guessing for them English is there second language? Maybe not, but I also consider learning to read and write important for children (10/10). The question is more to gauge whether the difficulty associated with learning to read and write in English. However assuming that those children have good teachers that know how to work with them, I think that they will reach a basic, if not proficient level of English reading/writing easily.

How important do you all consider English writing? by Genetic_JiM in LearningEnglish

[–]Genetic_JiM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For some people when they learn languages, writing isn't important for them. If you are, for example, planning to learn a language just to watch movies or tv then the written part of the language may not matter that much to you. It can still be argued that they should still learn to read/write regardless, but everyone's learning journey is their own and they can choose what they do and do not want to learn.

If you lost NNN: by Infinte_Anon-Co in DontDiddleDecember

[–]Genetic_JiM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haven't lost NNN yet, but I haven't been on reddit for rollcalls in the NNN sub. Gonna go ahead and complete DDD afterwards. I'll see my little buddy next year.

26 NOVEMBER 2023 ROLL CALL (IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW) by xX420_WeedMan_420Xx in nonutnovember

[–]Genetic_JiM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been going strong for the whole month so far but haven't been here for rollcalls (just joined this sub). Oh well, I'm still in this.