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lower case letters - 09:20 PM
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the letters of the alphabet that smiley has been seeing since he's been interested in them have mostly been capital letters, so until recently, he'd not recognised lowercase letters.
i started concentrating on them with him last week since knowing upper case & lowercase letters is one of steps along the path of learning to read.
he's picked them up really quickly & today read all the letters to me on a sign we went past. i'm so impressed with his ability with numbers & letters.
we've also been working on the sounds that letters make. he's not picking them up quite as quickly, but then again, they really don't make a lot of sense since some letters don't sound at all like the name of them (like the hard 'kuh' sound for the letter 'c', for instance) & they change with almost every word that you use them in, also depending on where the letter is within that word.
welcome to all the 'rules' of english that are constantly broken. lol! 
do not worry bibi, we who speak the language cannot get it easily either. as attested by the banter between coralie (AUS) and myself (USA) over words and usage. definitely not an easy language.
i am having the same problem with letters sounding different all the time. stephanie tries to figure out how to spell something based on how it sounds and i have to point out that no, it's actually bla instead.
Alia has just started to penetrate the mysteries of SILENT letters ... we were reading the other day and she spelled out "K-N-O-W ... kuh-nnn-oh-wuh ... Ka-NO!" I said, "No, baby, it's NO, not KA-NO." Frown, disbelief. "But Mama, there's the K. It's right there, Mama." So we had a chat about silent letters. After she'd listened quietly and absorbed it all, she asked the one-word, salient question - "Why?" To which my only answer was, "Because English is funny like that, pet"
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Yeah and they say English is such an "easy" language to learn... tell me about it!
Signed by: an Italian regular visitor who has been studying English for many many years and still hasn't found the easy bit in it