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		leke 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alph... I'm English and an atrocious speller until I started learning Finnish and learned to pronounce the English words phonetically in my head using the Finnish phonetic system.

sheiyei 7 months ago | [–]

That's awesome, I'm Finnish but when at school in England I was very quickly one of the best spellers in my class.

mousethatroared 7 months ago | [–]

I think learning to mispronounced English words is an under appreciated spelling technique.

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