About the deck
At Refold, we’re focused on teaching you to understand real English, as it’s actually spoken. Unfortunately, English has lots of weird features that make it hard to understand.
Why do you need to learn spelling?
Every language has a different set of symbols that represent words, such as “a, e, i, o, u, ж ю щ ф, あ, い, う, え, お,” and more.
Even if two languages use the same symbol, it may sound completely different! The English “j” sounds very different from the Spanish “j.” In many languages, these symbols are occasionally standardized to remove weird spellings, but English is not! It’s kept every spelling used over the past 500 years.
If you want to be able to read English and achieve accurate pronunciation, you’ll need to know how those symbols work!
Introducing the English Reading Deck
Our English Reading deck is made especially to help you understand English spelling as fast as possible.
We examined all the sounds that are used in General American English and used our years of experience in linguistics, phonology, and English as a Second Language education to invent a new way to study English spelling.
How to learn English Spelling
- Study each of the sounds in the language.
- Practice reading those sounds. Some sounds are represented by 7 different spellings!
- Immerse in English media content! You’ll need to expose yourself to the language to notice and reinforce the spelling.
- Now that you’ve gotten a grasp on reading English as it is, everything will solidify in your head over time.
