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by legerdemain 1912 days ago
I've seen the inside of an elementary grade classroom before, and I agree with you 100%. So many American children and even adults mispronounce vowel sounds, it's scary. Something around 60% of American adults look at a simple word like "iron" and say something that resembles "I yearn." Did no one tell them how it sounds?
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Was in a senior in high school French. Teacher was explaining how to translate present participle. Complete blank stares. Only thing anyone knew was noun and verb. Teacher had a complete meltdown.

So for next week em the entire school, every English class was School house Rock videos.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DCdt8-H1BFY&feature=youtu.be

What does that have to do with what you replied to?
I trust you pronounce "knight" and "whale" the way that gave them that spelling instead of relying on your inventory of sounds and phonotactics that you picked up from your community of native speakers.
I like you. Including your username. I'm surprised your comments aren't down voted more. They're honest. People don't seem to like that these days.
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