24/09/2026
The reason English reading is hard is a number: 26 letters are asked to carry 44 sounds.
Those 44 phonemes split into 24 consonant sounds and 20 vowel sounds, and they are written with roughly 250 different letter combinations - which is the whole difficulty in one sentence.
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