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ad 1) that's caused simply by phonemic orthography of German. English orthography is hell compared to that, it's not surprising that they need to start to learn

by Hitton 5y ago

ad 1) that's caused simply by phonemic orthography of German. English orthography is hell compared to that, it's not surprising that they need to start to learn it earlier.

dathinab 5y ago
Uhm, are you sure. I multiple times heard from exchange students that the standard of the English curses they had in the US hand been below the standard of the English cursed they had Germany...
- watwut 5y ago
  German 7 years old dont speak fluent English at all.
  - dathinab 5y ago
    I think it's obvious that I'm speaking about older children, as I'm speaking about exchange students... Which yes you could argue is somewhat out of context as the original discussion is for children around age 7.