by Jamie_Lambo » Sat Jul 02, 2016 7:39 pm
i learnt it back to front, and it worked better for me, i wanted to learn about speaking and grammar first as i wasnt so fussed about reading,
it started off fine, and my tutor was super strict with my pronunciations and id often have to re-romanize my spelling until i got the correct spelling, some of which are actually impossible to romanize i found,
but as the classes got more advanced, i started to appreciate that being able to read is a big factor, but by this point i had learnt all the sounds i needed to know,
so once we had finished that course i then told them i wanted to start learning to read and write,
when i first tried to learn to read i found it difficult as i wasnt really sure/familiar with the sounds each symbol is representing,
but now i had my vocab all i was doing was matching the sounds that i already knew to the symbols they represent, and it only took me about 6 lessons before i could read and write, my teacher was impressed at how quickly i picked it up, its just a case of practice now and learning the correct spellings,
as one thing ive noticed is that there are quite a few words that you could spell a number of different ways, which makes reading far easier than writing
id say it would be best to learn both at the same time, when i come back to the kingdom in a few months im going to take up another tutor and go through a course again, 1. to dust off the cobwebs and 2. be fun to go through it again now i have a greater understanding of speaking and writing
i learnt it back to front, and it worked better for me, i wanted to learn about speaking and grammar first as i wasnt so fussed about reading,
it started off fine, and my tutor was super strict with my pronunciations and id often have to re-romanize my spelling until i got the correct spelling, some of which are actually impossible to romanize i found,
but as the classes got more advanced, i started to appreciate that being able to read is a big factor, but by this point i had learnt all the sounds i needed to know,
so once we had finished that course i then told them i wanted to start learning to read and write,
when i first tried to learn to read i found it difficult as i wasnt really sure/familiar with the sounds each symbol is representing,
but now i had my vocab all i was doing was matching the sounds that i already knew to the symbols they represent, and it only took me about 6 lessons before i could read and write, my teacher was impressed at how quickly i picked it up, its just a case of practice now and learning the correct spellings,
as one thing ive noticed is that there are quite a few words that you could spell a number of different ways, which makes reading far easier than writing
id say it would be best to learn both at the same time, when i come back to the kingdom in a few months im going to take up another tutor and go through a course again, 1. to dust off the cobwebs and 2. be fun to go through it again now i have a greater understanding of speaking and writing