Yes .
a language that is spelled based on what you hear. etymology is a science of words and the words often are spelled differently than what the ear hears. Example of phonetics: Run, example of etymology: Emepheral
In a "phonetic" language, letters, groups of letters, consonants and vowels always sound the same.
Unlike most other languages English doesn't have a set phonetic pronunciation for every word.
Besides English,learning another 1 or 2 languages is an added advantage in a new economy in the long term.
And the fact that every single rule of grammar and spelling has exceptions and the exceptions are never consistant.
So I would say that the main disadvantage of the English language is that it is hard to learn.
No wonder it is such a hard languange to learn.
lot of the spelling rules are also not consistent like with the word "pretty" for example . Phonics rules are that the "e" in this word should be a short sound. This is not true for the letter "e" at all. IN this word, the letter "e" has the sound of the short "i". Why not spell this word "pritty" as it is pronounced? This is just one such example and then you have all of the silent sounds. What's the real deal with all of that ?
Its pronunciation, and all the words that sound the same but arent, like see and sea, red and read . It makes it hard to follow ppl sometimes, especially when accents are involved.
In most words that end in "e", the vowel is
long (says it's name) bake, take, fate, smite, home, phone.
The idioms are insanely difficult for others to understand. ("Rains cats and dogs," "see the light," etc.)
Then there are things like phrasal verbs (which, I'll call a kind of slang for argument's sake). Phrasal verbs are those verb phrases that we know so well and use so often that most often consist of some basic verb plus a preposition or adverb that then changes the meaning of the verb. Take for example, the verb to MAKE. Then add some prepositions/adverbs to it:
to make OUT (= to kiss and smoosh faces with someone passionately) to make UP (=to do at a later time, as with a test; to get back on good terms with someone you might have been fighting with) to make OVER (=to complete redo, as with getting a whole new wardrobe, look, etc.)
See what I mean? :P These phrasal verbs are some of the hardest things for non-native English speaking to learn, and to be able to use correctly.
English was "screwed up" long before the modern generation got its grubby paws on it, and jargon and slang have been injected into it for centuries. And in truth, English (and most other languages) has never been exact enough for truly good technical use. Its conjunctions do not reflect any sort of consistent logic system, such as Boolean logic.
Because these languages are phonetic not English.Phonetic here means that you can predict the pronunciation from the spelling, and predict the spelling from the pronunciation ...
Oxford , Yahoo Groups , teachers and wikipedia like things
can help us selecting one of a Phonetic language for children like
Kanata
or
Hindi
because 36 letters would be needed to make English language phonetic.
Phonetic here means that you can predict the pronunciation from the spelling, and predict the spelling from the pronunciation .Hindi is said to be more phonetic because of 47..alphabets
14 vowels
33 consonants
English, becomes so confusing, because we haven't got an "Academy" (as in French and Spanish) to govern the spelling .
pain/pane
plain/plane
rain/reign/rein
vain/vane/vein
hay/hey
nay/neigh/née
pray/prey
sleigh/slay
way/weigh
People who speak English as their first language are not necessarily aware which sound for A they are using when they use or read a word they have known . Of course, they are literate, whether they can explain the phonics system or not, because literate means capable of reading.
According to the Oxford dictionary's Key to Phonetic Symbols, there are 20 pronunciations of vowels/ diphthongs and 24 pronunciations of consonants in the English language, total: 44 letters
English is messed up even without slang and or jargon being thrown into the mix. Take for example the word cleave it can mean both: to adhere closely; stick; cling (usually fol. by to). or to cut off; sever: could these two definitions be more opposite? No wonder it is such a hard languange to learn.
English is not as simple as it appears to be become it is a complicated admixture of several European languages, such as- Greek, Latin, French, German, English etc. Thus it possesses approximately 1000 000 words.
Spellings in english is hard...because so many words have extra letters that you don't need...like through...psycology.The fact that the spelling is far from phonetic - the same combinations of letters can stand for totally different words, like the "ough" in "tough", "though", "drought", etc.
Its pronunciation, and all the words that sound the same but arent, like see and sea, red and read . It makes it hard to follow ppl sometimes, especially when accents are involved.
In most words that end in "e", the vowel is
long (says it's name) bake, take, fate, smite, home, phone.
The idioms are insanely difficult for others to understand. ("Rains cats and dogs," "see the light," etc.)
Because these languages are phonetic not English.Phonetic here means that you can predict the pronunciation from the spelling, and predict the spelling from the pronunciation ...
Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system or system of rules for such practice.
From a linguistic point of view, transliteration is a mapping from one system of writing into another, word by word. Transliteration attempts to be exact, so that an informed reader should be able to reconstruct the original spelling of unknown transliterated words. To achieve this objective transliteration may define complex conventions for dealing with letters in a source script which do not correspond with letters in a goal script.
Yes .
a language that is spelled based on what you hear. etymology is a science of words and the words often are spelled differently than what the ear hears.
Unlike most other languages English doesn't have a set phonetic pronunciation for every word.
Spelling - Because of the many changes in pronunciation which have occurred since a written standard developed, and the retention of many historical idiosyncrasies in spelling, English spelling is difficult even for native speakers to master. This difficulty is shown in such activities as spelling bees that generally require the memorization of words. English speakers may also rely on computer tools such as spell checkers more than speakers of other languages, as the users of the utility may have forgotten, or never learned, the correct spelling of a word. The generalizations that exist are quite complex and there are many exceptions leading to a considerable amount of rote learning. The spelling system causes problems in both directions - a learner may know a word by sound but not be able to write it correctly (or indeed find it in a dictionary), or they may see a word written but not know how to pronounce it or mislearn the pronunciation.
Varieties of English
There are thriving communities of English native speakers in countries all over the world, and this historical diaspora has led to some noticeable differences in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar in different countries, as well as those variations which exist between different regions, and across the social strata, within the same country. Even within the British Isles, there are significant regional language differences .
Yes .
a language that is spelled based on what you hear. etymology is a science of words and the words often are spelled differently than what the ear hears. Example of phonetics: Run, example of etymology: Emepheral
In a "phonetic" language, letters, groups of letters, consonants and vowels always sound the same.
English is NOT phonetic- case in point-
there, their, They're all SOUND the same (are phonetic), but have drastically different meanings.
another example are the sounds PH and F.
ie. elePHant, and oFten. they sound the same, if you didnt know the word, if i asked you to write it you may be wrong.
Languages that ARE phonetic are Kanata ,Japanese and Hindi . It is a very rare occasion that you will see words in this language that sound the same but are spelled different (like the their, there, They're example)
In a way, this makes phonetic languages easier to read and write because in italian, if you hear a word like GELATO, if you have a grasp of the language, you should be able to spell it right because "J" has a VERY different sound than "G".
This is why so many people have trouble learning english, even after being submersed in it for many years.
World needs a phonetic language for better education
..so help in creating and popularising one by websites ,.friends , groups and clubs
Simplish
Yes .
One of the world's biggest Problem of Language and Education . Language is more than anything else makes us human...
Aren't there opportunities here for creative problem solvers? The USA has a multitude of children's publications. Could those in the publishing industry provide A new language named Simplish a uniform International standard for English language and it is important to erradicate illiteracy by using English Language ,
which will include our colloquial terms and the most essential words.If you want to be logical use Hindi alp