I completely agree that learning how to spell is better than relying on computer aid.
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
That's one reason, by the way, that people for whom English is a foreign language tend to use it more correctly than native speakers: in many cases, they learned to read and write it (usually online) before they heard it spoken, so they learned what the words mean, not what they sound like. "Hear" and "here" are two totally different words to someone who's read them but rarely or never heard them, so he naturally uses the proper one.
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I learned writing and reading English simultaneously at school, but I think even that helped with keeping homonyms straight. I didn't have years of mostly hearing them, and therefore perceiving them as identical, to confuse issues.
Mind, I suspect in turn my accent would be bad if I actually spoke English rather than typing it...