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Same, I could read before kindergarten just from my parents reading to me. My mom was shocked when she found out I could read, they hadn't started intentionally

• soulofmischief 2y ago
  I just instructed my grandmother to read the same kid's book to me over and over again each night for a few weeks and matched the phonemes to the letters. At that point I'd already had a decent grasp of language so it felt like a very natural transition. It bit me for a while later on in grade school when I took an English class and realized I didn't know anything about how language was constructed, it was all purely intuition. Formalizing language took a concerted effort on my part, and my teachers didn't understand how to translate the material... because I can't just be told things at face value, there is always a nested mass of "but why?" that must be answered or I fundamentally don't understand. Once I finally got over that hill, it was smooth sailing again. It also made learning foreign languages very hard in school, I failed both foreign language classes I took, until I again took my own time to learn the fundamentals and now it all seems to stick.