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Apparently, some schools in the U.S. didn't teach phonics until recently (2014).

Did anyone here learn phonics in school?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Since I come from a culture where our alphabet is actually consistent to how you pronounce things with no exceptions:

no.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sure your country's high grammar might be consistent, but the general day-to-day would have influences from other languages that can't be so neatly categorised, and their pronounciation would differ from region to region

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

We do, and even those have rules. Not phonetic rules though

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Well technically that is phonics, you see a new word, as a learner, you know how to sound it out. Compared to the Whole Word learning method where somebody has to teach you what a word says. English is a nasty mess of both.