
AE 1137 - Interview: Going From Beginner to Near-Native in Russian with Justin Hammond - Part 1
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The Importance of Upper and Lower Case in English
english is very, it's is sort of half way between what chinese would be with pictographs and then languages that are a hundred % phonetic. You need t just, especially for the most common words, learn the pronunciation and just memorize it and see the word as a symbol. I never realized that my brain effectively just recognizes words as individual symbols so that when i'm reading, i don't think about sounding out the vowl sounds and the consonants. It's just, you know, there's the word, and there's the pronunciation, bang in the vault. So it was one of these interesting things wher, i was like, holycrap.
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