>With just a handful of heuristics and a modicum of rote memorization, children can figure out most English words with 0 background in any other languages.
Most doesn't equal all.
>Besides this, pattern recognition is strong & easy -- tons of cognates and near-cognates, and most of the homophones & homonyms are common enough words that you'll learn them quickly regardless.
It's very difficult compared to a language system where the pronunciation can be directly inferred from the letters.
Most doesn't equal all.
>Besides this, pattern recognition is strong & easy -- tons of cognates and near-cognates, and most of the homophones & homonyms are common enough words that you'll learn them quickly regardless.
It's very difficult compared to a language system where the pronunciation can be directly inferred from the letters.