TEACHING THE PHONEMES

Teaching the Phonemes

Teaching the Phonemes

Imagine you want to represent the pronunciation of a language as precise as possible in writing. Seems to be an easy task - is not that what the invention of the alphabet is all about?

Well, think of the English. We write "a" change hands on the ball and even "a" represents a different sound in each word. A few simple sounds are represented by two letters (like "th" in thing), while sometimes only one letter represents two sounds (like "x" for example)!Perhaps a more 'phonetic' language such as Spanish, fare better? At ...