RE: BAD EDUCATIONAL EXAMPLES AND MY UNSCHOOLING FREEDOM
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This school program is weird. Not how I learned to read at all, and I'm familiar with five different writing systems (Roman, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, and Katakana). Honestly, this is giving me flashbacks to a horrible curriculum that used to be all the rage in America: Hooked on Phonics. It was such a disaster that it became the butt of a rather famous joke:
HUKT ON FONIX WURKT FOR ME
"Hooked on Phonics worked for me." No it didn't, it didn't work for anyone. Oh, one other thing: when a particular consonant goes from voiced to voiceless in English, the letter actually changes if it isn't at the end of a word. Thus, the noun form of the verb "transcribe" is "transcription." On that same token, if a word ends in a voiced consonant, that consonant usually remains voiced in its pronunciation (unlike in Russian), though there are plenty of exceptions. English has many more exceptions to the rules than rules to begin with (e.g. why is the suffix "-tion" pronounced "шан"?!), it's maddening.
When I was homeschooling my sons, I recall the joke as 'Hookt ahn fonix rilly werkt fer mee.' You have a vastly better education than do I, and are the right person to provide the information to Talia at the end of your comment regarding transcription. I'm glad you did.
Thanks!
a great example;))
English has its own pecularities and maddening, you're right:))
I remember how huge eyes of Russians who only start to study English are when they see 1 English word and 100500 variants of its translation in vocabulary:))
And, of course, tenses....these 100500 tenses (most of which aren't used at all but are studied by students). All kids and adults are afraid of them;))
and irregular verbs!;))