TROUBLE WITH ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION?
Who doesn’t? Even native speakers hesitate. What about spelling? It’s a nightmare; neither foreigners nor native speakers can cope with the chaotic English orthography.
As a matter of fact, Pronunciation and Spelling are a couple on bad terms. They don’t understand each other and the relationship is impossible. Pronunciation has developed, changed along centuries and adapted to the circumstances and requirements of our time, whereas Spelling wears the ancient heavy, hard, over-ornamented dress of former times, an impediment getting through in our speedy world.
Since we have no authority to change this undesirable estate of affairs, and it seems nobody has, the only thing to be done is to use strategies to manage to get by. This is what I offer in my blogs.
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