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> But English orthography isn't meant to serve foreigners. Or natives. It is slower for children to learn to read English than other languages.
by hyperpape 1y ago
> But English orthography isn't meant to serve foreigners.
Or natives. It is slower for children to learn to read English than other languages.
- jgwil2 1y agoTeaching my toddler to read now and I definitely feel like if we spoke Spanish my work would be done already.
- bluGill 1y agoProbably not. Toddlers generally don't have the brain to learn any reading. Spanish's advantages in reading isn't how young you can start learning to read, it is how fast you can stop reading. Spanish schools stop teaching reading takes about 5 years to learn, English 6, and Japanese 9 - after that much training kids are finally considered to read anything. (sometimes we talk about college level reading, but that is more about mastery of topic specific topic - Doctors, lawyers, and engineers each have special vocabulary that needs extra training to read, but they cannot read each other's technical papers)
- mousethatroared 1y agoI learned how to read in six months. My kid took two and half years. The Chinese take 10 years. So what? Are the Chinese terribly educated?