I was trying to teach Eli some letters in the alphabet tonight, and I realized that English is really confusing! I was showing him letters on the front cover of a book. He can recognize upper case Es because that's what his name starts with. I figured I would show him what an l and an i look like. We did pretty well with l, so I moved on to eye. He points at it just like I do and repeats it a few times and then he looks at me quizzically and brings his hand to his eye and repeats the same sound. YES, Eli, eye and I sound the same, but one is a letter and one is a body part. How do you explain to a little guy that it's the same sound but not the same thing?! Now every time he sees an i anywhere, he points to it and then his eye.
*sigh* English sucks!
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4 comments:
Yeah I was trying to do the alphabet today with Carter, and we ended in a fight at the letter F. He kept INSISTING that it was a B. Oh it was frustrating. He's never gonna learn because her refuses to listen.
I taught an adult ESL class for two years. After explaining something to the students, they would ask, "does this apply every time?" I would usually have to say no, there are always exceptions. It made things very difficult sometimes!
I'm right there with you, its been so tough trying to teach my 6 year old how to read because of it.
Yeah and so does Chinese :)
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