A for EHH
B for BEH
C for KEH ….
Its
been more than a year now since I wrote about Vira … Its been a hurricane of a
year though. She is 3 years old. She
joined a Montessori school in the neighbourhood . And has made some progress on
learning to be more ‘civilised’ – in words and deeds .
One particularly interesting activity is to
teach her the alphabets .. and the sounds associated with them . I read up about this and the following pieces
on Wikipedia helped
1.
Linguistics :- Linguistics as a study endeavours to describe
and explain the human faculty of language.
2.
Phonetics :- Phonetics is a
branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech. It
is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds.
It’s amazing that
kids at 3 will learn anything so complicated.. or so I thought. But I then
realised that the kid is actually enjoying the process. She like saying A for
Aah … B for Bah .. C for Keh .Phonetics is
enabling her to speak much clearer . And to understand things easily. She is
making attempts to identify 2 letter sounds together – SH for Shhh.. ST for
sttttah . It has also shown
me that the 26 letters in the alphabet does not represent all the sounds in
English . 15 vowels and semi vowels and 23 consonants play a very important
role in the sound and spelling maze . Takes me straight back to school !! J
Look up this
utube video if you found this interesting :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPsz6QVZeVE
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