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English spelling does not provide you with the basic information you need to accurately figure out the correct sound of an English word
This is the reason why English is unnecessarily hard to read
Fonetic English makes English so much easier to learn because it provides you with ALL THE INFORMATION you need to quickly and intuitively figure out the correct sound of ANY English word
A lack of information makes English unnecessarily hard to learn
You can’t learn the sound of many English words by sounding them out.
English words can make literally thousands of sounds.





CON.tract means an agreement
Con.TRACT means to get shorter



- In Roman times, everyone read aloud. When French monks added upper- and lower-case letters, spaces and punctuation in the 8th and 9th centuries, people started to read silently.
- Silent reading repurposes the speech and auditory part of the brain. Unsurprisingly this auditory part of the brain operates most efficiently at the speed of conversational speech. Reading at the speed of conversational speech is called fluent reading. Fluent readers have better comprehension and learning outcomes than slower readers.
- Fluent reading at conversational speed does not give you time to decode the sound of a word by sounding it out: you must be able to recognize the shape of the word and instantly know its sound, which is called sightword recognition.

Random information is hard to remember. Can you remember these characters?
r g o d n a
These letters are random, and we humans are not good at remembering random information.
However, we humans are very good at recognizing and remembering things that make sense. Here are these letters in a different order.
“dragon” is easy to remember because it makes sense to us!
Phonetic languages allow you to sound out words letter by letter with no rules or exceptions. The decoded sound makes sense. Because we humans have evolved to remember what makes sense, we can easily remember it, as we saw with the word “dragon”.
Many of you can learn a sightword by sounding out the word letter by letter as few as 3-5 times. That may be all the repetition required for you to remember the shape of a phonetic word and its sound.
Most of you will sound out new Fonetic English words correctly and you won’t have to unlearn mispronunciation to learn the correct sound, which is the fossilization problem.

With non phonetic words, the sound is much more random information which humans are very poor at remembering as we saw with the letters “r g o d n a”. It can take 20-50 repetitions to learn a non phonetic word by rote. Maybe this is why reading levels are not improving: fewer students are prepared to endure what can feel like endless repetition to learn sightwords by rote.




The colour of the snake is the same as the background, so it is the shape of the camouflaged snake that we can recognize. And we can recognize camouflaged snakes in all sorts of different positions. This is an amazing skill we humans have evolved.
So, once you can recognize the shape of a word, you can use our evolved predator recognition skill to read that word no matter how the word is written. It can be printed normally, can be in a curly type, can be printed badly or the letters can be handwritten, and we can still recognize it by its shape.
In fact, being able to recognize disguised words is how we can prȷve to some websites that we are humans, not com—pů–ters.

As the shape and spelling of a word does not change when marked up into Fonetic English, you can read a word shape in both Fonetic English and in standard English. So, there is an automatic transition from reading in Fonetic English to reading in standard English.
When you see an English or Fonetic English letter you know the sound instantly and automatically without having to think about it.
Fonetic English will test everyone by playing the sounds of phonemes and we want you to select the right character that makes that sound. If you get a sound or character wrong, you will be explicitly taught the sound and/or the character. The sound of Fonetic English characters will also be taught using this process. The outcome should be mastery: we want to be able to select the right character without thinking, so there is no hesitation and no splitting of your attention.
Intelligent repetition technology is also employed. When you can select the character that represents the sound correctly and without hesitation, the intelligent repetition system will automatically ensure that you will no longer be presented with that character.
Fonetic English has studied the phonemes of many foreign languages to find out what phonemes in a foreign language are exact matches to English, close matches and what phonemes are missing. Exact and close matches can be taught to you by spelling the English phoneme in the foreign language. In addition, English phonemes that are missing from a foreign language can be taught be using borrowed words, brands or place names containing those phonemes.
[expander_maker id=”5″ more=”Read more” less=”Read less”]We can teach you to discriminate new English sounds using syllables containing phonemes that are common to both English and your native language. Gradually you will be taught with fewer and fewer characters until you can accurately hear the English phoneme.
Having the syllables spelled in Fonetic English will mean that you know what exactly what sounds to listen for and this is likely to significantly speed up your ability to hear English sounds accurately.
The process for teaching English sounds will be optimized for each foreign language.[/expander_maker]
Sounding out words syllable by syllable is easy as you just say the first syllable and then the second without a pause.
Here are two syllables: “black” and “smith” and the compound word is “blacksmith”.
Syllables are short, so they are quick and easy to learn.
Learning the sound of sightwords by sounding out syllables is very efficient. 36 words are made up solely of these 15 syllables: 'up', 'down', 'in', 'out', 'on', 'off', 'ing', 'under', 'side', 'set', 'flow', 'go', 'grow', 'put', 'hold'. Learning 15 syllables is faster and easier then learning 36 words.
When you encounter a new multisyllable word, you may only need to learn one or two syllables because you already know the sounds of the other syllables.
The limits on working memory only apply to new information. So if you have already learned a number of syllables, you should be able to sound out long, multisyllable words containing some of your known syllables.
Fonetic English wants you to read a lot because you enjoy it and find reading pleasurable. One way to make this happen is to provide you with interesting reading materials. Fonetic English has a reading practice app and you can choose graded reading materials in Fonetic English that interests you. More …
Later, individualized graded reading materials will be generated by AI on specific subjects that interest you. These topics could include reading practice materials on topics that you are studying, which is likely to improve your learning outcomes in that topic. More …



- Learning to accurately discriminate spoken English effortlessly is necessary if you are going to be able to devote your full attention to the meaning of what is being said, which is required for good comprehension.
- Text will be recorded in 4 different ways: normal conversational speed, slow conversational speed, slow conversational speed with a short pause between words, and slow conversational speed with a longer pause between words.
- The text will also be recorded in different accents which can help you better discriminate English text being read to them. You will be encouraged to start listening to native English speakers when you can.
- You will also be able to hear text read to you while each word is being highlighted, which may be very useful in the beginning but can be a distraction when you are more advanced.
- You can learn dictation skills by having a group of Fonetic English words presented to you and then hearing a sentence read to you. You will need to click on the right words in the right order. The text can be read at different speeds and with different accents.

