Did you learn phonics in school?

[nemo@slrpnk.net]

Yes, my elementary school explicitly used it.

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

Sure your country's high grammar might be consistent, but the general day-to-day would have influences from other languages that can't be so neatly categorised, and their pronounciation would differ from region to region

[onlooker@lemmy.ml]

noʊ, aɪ doʊnt θɪŋk aɪ dɪd.

[xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml]

This comment section is reminding me its not normal for me to have maybe a dozen memories from under age 13. I have never even heard of phonics i just know i can read. Idk how i learned to. When i read i just like do it. Its the same as listening it just happens.

[hallettj@leminal.space]

No, but I remember overhearing one of my teachers saying it's actually helpful. That was in the early 90s in California.

[klemptor@startrek.website]

1-800-ABC-DEFG

[pip@slrpnk.net]

We do, and even those have rules. Not phonetic rules though

[sunbeam60@lemmy.one]

I didn’t, for me it was “Ai, Bee, See, Dee, Eee, Eff, Jee” (except in my local language Danish). My children all learnt phonics in their U.K. school and it’s taught them to read 5x faster I’d say).

[obsidianzed@lemmy.world]

I learned on the 90s.

[anomnom@sh.itjust.works]

Yup this didn’t start till after the 2000 election.

[omegalemmy@discuss.online]

stop using ipa

[rbwells@lemmy.world]

Long after I learned to read. At which point it was just confusing since so many words can't be 'sounded out'.

I learned to read alongside learning to speak, learned it like a language, not like a code, I didn't really sound things out consciously, it went in the other direction, I recognized words. So by 3 years I could read quite well, and did come by that path to an understanding that the individual letters had sounds.

Like if you've ever seen a little kid learning to write, they start with just scribbles then lines of scribbles then clumps of "letters" then actual words with letters. That is sort of the process I had - books held stories, then I saw there was writing, then my mom read the stories while pointing to the words, then I pretended I could read by memorizing the book, but then just jumped to being able to read. Anything. Like first book was "bears on wheels" but second book was Grendel, and I could read the newspaper, literally think I could understand written language more than spoken.

So anyway - yes was taught phonics but not taught to read with phonics.