When i was in first year of elementary school, we learned individual letters, first the sound, then writing them a whole bunch as an exercise. I've had some previous experience with just single...
When i was in first year of elementary school, we learned individual letters, first the sound, then writing them a whole bunch as an exercise. I've had some previous experience with just single characters too, from building blocks with letters on them and whatnot, so that part was pretty easy for me, but i couldn't grasp the concept of actually reading full words. Unusually vivid memory for me from that part of childhood is sitting in the living room for a really long time before my parents understood what i was struggling with and started being like "Okay, can you read this character? What about this one? And this? Okay, now what if you read them all together quickly?" and then it finally clicked for me. First language has an ortography that very strongly follows pronunciation, so there wasn't much to learn after that.
When i was in first year of elementary school, we learned individual letters, first the sound, then writing them a whole bunch as an exercise. I've had some previous experience with just single characters too, from building blocks with letters on them and whatnot, so that part was pretty easy for me, but i couldn't grasp the concept of actually reading full words. Unusually vivid memory for me from that part of childhood is sitting in the living room for a really long time before my parents understood what i was struggling with and started being like "Okay, can you read this character? What about this one? And this? Okay, now what if you read them all together quickly?" and then it finally clicked for me. First language has an ortography that very strongly follows pronunciation, so there wasn't much to learn after that.