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Do you know why I teach myself English? That leads to a very sad story. After I had graduated from senior high school, I decided not to go to college, because my father suddenly fell ill on May 2, 2010. He had a stroke and he can't speak clearly. Most of the colleges in my city are located in the suburbs. I also had to take my grandmothers into consideration. However, I have been crazy about English since I was young. So, I decided to teach myself English.
When I learn English, what I begin with is pronunciation, or phonics. The English alphabet has 26 letters, 5 vowels and 21 consonants. However, the American English language has 50 sounds, 21 vowels and 29 consonants. There are a lot of reasons why I had to learn fifty KK Phonetic symbols and the rules of phonics. Let's take vowels for example. Our alphabet has five vowels, a, e, i, o, and u. But we have 21 vowel sounds, 14 long vowels and 7 short vowels. Every vowel letter usually have two sounds: one is their long vowel, and the other is called short vowel. This vocabulary "long vowel" or "short vowel" comes from elementary school and teaching kids how to read. Those teachers also need to name their sounds, and so the very, very, VERY old terminology of long and short vowels lives on. When I say old, I mean centuries old. The terminology is so old that they no longer correctly describe the sounds. Yet, in all the wisdom of our public schools this terminology is still used very frequently. Basically, 2 to 5 hundred years ago, long vowels sounded differently than they do now. Then a phenomenon called "The Great Vowel Shift" happened, and the pronunciation of each vowel changed. But the vocabulary didn't. Five vowel letters and the vowel digraph "ea" and "oo" has two sounds--one is long and the other is short. Long vowels are pronounced for longer than their short vowel counterparts. When we teach kids how to read, we tell them that a long vowel sound says its name, a, e, i, o, or u, and that the long oo sound sounds like /u/. When a vowel appears at the end of a stressed syllable or is followed by a consonant and a silent e, i. e. , it appears at the open syllable, it is often long. Otherwise, it is often short. Every letter has one or more sounds. So we should learn the KK phonetic symbols.
After I learn the pronunciation, I learn vocabulary and grammar. English has a large vocabulary. The English words are from Germanic languages, Romance languages, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and more. English is an inflective language but with fewer inflections than the other languages in the Indo-European family. A noun, a pronoun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb changes while a preposition, an article, a numeral, a conjunction and an interjection doesn't change. English has three types of sentences called simple sentences, compound sentences and complex sentences. And it has a fixed word order. I have been learning English for more than a decade and I love it very much.
When I learn English, what I begin with is pronunciation, or phonics. The English alphabet has 26 letters, 5 vowels and 21 consonants. However, the American English language has 50 sounds, 21 vowels and 29 consonants. There are a lot of reasons why I had to learn fifty KK Phonetic symbols and the rules of phonics. Let's take vowels for example. Our alphabet has five vowels, a, e, i, o, and u. But we have 21 vowel sounds, 14 long vowels and 7 short vowels. Every vowel letter usually have two sounds: one is their long vowel, and the other is called short vowel. This vocabulary "long vowel" or "short vowel" comes from elementary school and teaching kids how to read. Those teachers also need to name their sounds, and so the very, very, VERY old terminology of long and short vowels lives on. When I say old, I mean centuries old. The terminology is so old that they no longer correctly describe the sounds. Yet, in all the wisdom of our public schools this terminology is still used very frequently. Basically, 2 to 5 hundred years ago, long vowels sounded differently than they do now. Then a phenomenon called "The Great Vowel Shift" happened, and the pronunciation of each vowel changed. But the vocabulary didn't. Five vowel letters and the vowel digraph "ea" and "oo" has two sounds--one is long and the other is short. Long vowels are pronounced for longer than their short vowel counterparts. When we teach kids how to read, we tell them that a long vowel sound says its name, a, e, i, o, or u, and that the long oo sound sounds like /u/. When a vowel appears at the end of a stressed syllable or is followed by a consonant and a silent e, i. e. , it appears at the open syllable, it is often long. Otherwise, it is often short. Every letter has one or more sounds. So we should learn the KK phonetic symbols.
After I learn the pronunciation, I learn vocabulary and grammar. English has a large vocabulary. The English words are from Germanic languages, Romance languages, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and more. English is an inflective language but with fewer inflections than the other languages in the Indo-European family. A noun, a pronoun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb changes while a preposition, an article, a numeral, a conjunction and an interjection doesn't change. English has three types of sentences called simple sentences, compound sentences and complex sentences. And it has a fixed word order. I have been learning English for more than a decade and I love it very much.
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