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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i completely agree, a good teacher makes all the difference, and the biggest problem with language classes in schools is that most often you concentrate on grammar and vocabulary but very little on actually speaking and understanding it.
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Being a teacher who has taught English or Language Arts as we now call it, I can admit that we do the same thing with our own language. When Shannon was much younger, she told me that her band was going to play a concert at the Ep-i-sco-pal church. I had to think about it for a minute and realized that she meant the Episcopal church.
She started reading at a very young age and tended to sound new words out phonetically. Zack did the same thing only with a twist. He was convinced the word pint (pronounced with a long i sound) should be pronounced with a short i and refused to pronounce it correctly.
Thankfully, at 21, he has now conceded the point, but I was very concerned there for awhile.
