keannu
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Actually, English doesn't have an alphabet character that represents schwa sound /ə/, so a,e,i,o,u replace it.
This is one of the difficulties that non-native speakers encounter when learning English.
When I started to learn English, I though the alphabet was created by the English, but later came to know it was created by the Romans.
The English alphabet is actually Roman characters. I have two questions.
1. Didn't the British have any characters of their own in ancient times?
2. If they found it very inconvenient that pronunciations and spellings don't correspond to each other, hasn't there been any movement to create British characters to denote English pronunciations correctly and easily?
This is one of the difficulties that non-native speakers encounter when learning English.
When I started to learn English, I though the alphabet was created by the English, but later came to know it was created by the Romans.
The English alphabet is actually Roman characters. I have two questions.
1. Didn't the British have any characters of their own in ancient times?
2. If they found it very inconvenient that pronunciations and spellings don't correspond to each other, hasn't there been any movement to create British characters to denote English pronunciations correctly and easily?