Paul, It doesn't take 16 years to learn to read English for a native speaker. However, you have to do a lot of reading to recognize more than 2000 words as...
... 50% of the kids are going to ... This seems another luminous quote, in the sense that it summarises one of the key philanthropic purports of our endeavour....
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... SB: What changes in the orthography will accelerate literacy. ... SB: If you want to achieve literacy in 3 months, you have to regularize the spelling...
http://www.omniglot.com/images/writing/swedish.gif Gus, Can you provide a clearer insight into the extended alphabet used in Sweden? Notes c = [ s ] before e,...
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From: Steve Bett "[...] And, both Swedish and German have an æ, or "at" sound, distinguished by an a with two small dots above.[...]" ... Steve, As far as...
Picked up from an old posting: Italy and Spain do not have a significantly higher litereacy rate according to some UN sponsored research. They get off to a 2...
... Thanks for the below, Steve. As some of the characters didn't come out for me, I can't help you there. My knowledge of Swedish isn't all that good anyway,...
... I do'nt kno what Pete meens abuv with my not being able to grasp consepts, but on reeding the abuv, I hav tu agree his MORE is a litl beter than RITE-HS. ...
Hi Gang, A hypothetical question. If TS is encoded in some way (say diacritics, or numbers on top of the letters, or color) WITHOUT CHANGING ITS SPELLING, and...
... I'm not so much worried about enforcement as I am about those who'd be on the commission. I think the membership should be those who're in favor of a ...
On 2 Jun 2006 14:50:48 -0000, euro-english@yahoogroups.com <euro-english@yahoogroups.com> ... In Iqliz1: It wos on d frst dá ov d nu yir dt d anounsmnt wos...
... In Sweden some of our English consonant letters aren't even used except for foreign words, such as q, w, x and z. They also don't use the y for a consonant...
36210 From: "bobjoy4" <bobjoy4@...> Date: Fri Jun 2, 2006 11:45am Subject: Transfer from pronunciation guide words to TS bobjoy4 Offline Send Email Invite to...
... The entire UK is going to a truespel type system it appears. See the download prf file at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/accents.htm It loads...
Does clarity trump brevity Sam, It certainly doesn't in SMS texting. Iqliz usually has a letter representing two sounds. This doesn't sound like clarity but it...
Hi Tom, I can't seem to get any pronunciation guide information from the URL you quote. Where is the link to Truespel? Bob Boden ... READ ... up ... the ... ...
Hi Sam, That was an interesting note. In this area of California the stupid 'whole word' system was in place from 1986 to the fall of 2003. If one wonders why...
Bob, There are some sound-symbol tables and the NLS symbols do look a little like Truespel and New Spelling. ae ee ie oe ue oi ow (truespel ou) ur (truespel...
Bob, Go to http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/accents.htm Then click on "playing with sounds" Then click on "materials for whole class teaching PDF"...
Pete, Theo, and Gus, My problems with MORE is that I would not know how to spell it and like Gus, I might not be able to spot a spelling error or typo. Of...
... On giving it some more thought, Bob, I think in your case with Phondot, there won't be any problem, as the sounds remaining for those TS letters after your...
... This is possible by just leaving off the diacritics.. I think you have to have the dictionary key first to support the quick ... This would have those...
... From: "daniel prohaska" <danielprohaska@...> To: <saundspel@yahoogroups.com> Gud mcn (man), Dcn (Dan) Thct meiks 2 ov as agenst the universe. Ian ...
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George here responding to... ... I totally agree. Now, how do we convince them of the need? My personal position was that we need to eliminate iliteracy,...
Hi George, I surely agree with you. Some years ago I thought innocently that the elementary schools would be interested in some of my work which I knew would...
In 1939 there was UN support for a literacy campaign and approach used by Pike and his students in Mexico and Central America. Pike and his cohorts were able...
... The way Iqliz is right now with its use of diacritics, I don't think anyone would be interested in using it for Texting on cell-phones. Some cell-phones ...
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