Welcome back to teaching in room nine our summertime edition. My name is Julia. I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard school but here for teaching in room nine my lessons focus on phonemic ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. We like to think that human speech is special. It defines our ...

English is a funny language in that there is no one to one correspondence between spelling and pronunciation. The spelling of a word doesn’t always tell us how the word is to be pronounced. English ...

The answer partly depends on whether we are talking about the sounds or letters of vowels and consonants. By mentioning “alphabetic languages”, the questioner is presumably asking why most versions of ...

A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y is not all you need to know about vowels. There's more to these workhorse members of our linguistics inventory than you might think. The most common vowel sound in ...

From my perspective, there’s almost nothing more thrilling than learning to use a new writing system. You’re gaining access to a whole secret code that many others cannot penetrate. The romance of ...

Do you remember the joy of doodling or tinkering with (the now vintage) Microsoft Paint or WordPad? Some 20 years later, Google's new artificial intelligence (AI) experiment has granted me nearly the ...