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 Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:17 pm
Julian continued to write the first four letters of the alphabet over and over. He felt silly doing it, but he knew he would feel less silly at restaurants from now on.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:19 pm
She looked at it. "Alright, much better." After teaching him all the different sounds of the alphabet, when to use capital letters and such, she went to writing sentences. "Kid, now I'll right down a word and you try to read it, k?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:26 pm
"Okay..." Julian said hesitently.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:30 pm
Zai wrote down a few random words and showed it to him. The paper read, Apple, Because, Cat, Dear, Eat.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:36 pm
Julian slowly stammered out the words. Having a lout of trouble on because because it was so long and because of the silent e and he had trouble on dear because of the a and e against each other
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:42 pm
"Good. Just keep practicing... now, can you write a few words? Even simple ones, such as 'if, when, and', ext." Zai asked.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:49 pm
Julian tried writing it down. if wen and
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:52 pm
Zai got up and sat next to him, "K, good again. The word 'when' has an 'h' after the 'w'."
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:57 pm
Julian looked at Zai confused. "Why? Is it like the e?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:01 pm
"Sort of. What, where, and when all have an 'h' right after the 'w'." She said, then wrote them down so he could see.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:03 pm
"Oh. I see." Julian said. "What other silent letters are there?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:05 pm
"Depends, actually. Usually, it is just 'h' or 'e'." Zai responded. Obviously, she was not use to teaching people...
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:07 pm
"Oh. So what do we do now?" Julian asked.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:09 pm
"Well, you could practice writing, yeah... and I could look over it, and show ya any corrections."
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:12 pm
"Okay. What words?" Julian asked.
((gtg in 5 min. my mom wants the comp.))
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