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italiantea · 11 months

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my international school background is doing me no favors here my biology teacher was indian my geography teacher was scottish my business teacher was from turkey i have no idea how to pronounce things anymore. why are you asking me how to say cot. who the fuck uses a cot

#the ho rambles #though i am glad to have three different languages to reference. had no idea there were so many subtle differences between vowels tbh #btw this is just cementing my teenage suspicion that teaching phonics to children is actually a daunting task lmao #i only vaguely remember long vowels and short vowels like what child knows wtf a schwa is lmao #and how the r at the end of a vowel changes the sound?#like dude if you're not fortunate enough to be immersed in the language and. yknow. just acquire it #it's actually really hard to learn systematically

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