I just have to rant that I'm ashamed of the English language. A week or so ago I watched a second form class. They are six and seven years old and are in their first year of English lessons. One of the perks of learning the alphabet is that the students get to put letters together to form words. I swear, one of the first words Ukrainian students learn to say, write, and spell is squirrel. If I were a 6 year-old learning English, I'd bet I would feel defeated and most definitely would be intimidated if one of my first words was "squirrel." It's so hard for them to get the correct sound of 'skworal' and the spelling is simply preposterous. I'd say that a large percentage of Americans don't even know how to spell it.
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