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8.During my school days, we were so used to phonetics when starting to learn a language that we marked the English words with codes and signs and then memorised them. So when we came across new English words, we were unable to pronounce them, not to mention the comprehension of those words. In the end, we had very poor ability to "spell" the words. All these, coupled with an environment that does not encourage the use of English, make it difficult for us to learn the language.
