I will never get used to Tipp and Schifffahrt, it looks wrong. Why, oh why.
But either way, German is relatively easy, and also was before. But things like hier can ne tricky, because unless the pronounciation is super exaggerated, it could easily be hir. Is it is Eumel or Oimel or Oymel? Is it Ei or Ai? It could be ain Ai im Ayerbecher!
The point is, it's stupid to let kids write the way they hear it, because it depends so much on how something is pronounced. On top of that, we're a country with strong dialects, and I don't even want to imagine what children write like in Bavaria or Saxony when not taught how things are written correctly. I understand why they're later frustrated by reading because they can't sound out the words in their head or writing because it's all wrong and then get bad marks for orthography in secondary school.
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But either way, German is relatively easy, and also was before. But things like hier can ne tricky, because unless the pronounciation is super exaggerated, it could easily be hir. Is it is Eumel or Oimel or Oymel? Is it Ei or Ai? It could be ain Ai im Ayerbecher!
The point is, it's stupid to let kids write the way they hear it, because it depends so much on how something is pronounced. On top of that, we're a country with strong dialects, and I don't even want to imagine what children write like in Bavaria or Saxony when not taught how things are written correctly. I understand why they're later frustrated by reading because they can't sound out the words in their head or writing because it's all wrong and then get bad marks for orthography in secondary school.