An important place to start is with pronunciation. This will be learnt and re-learnt as your experience with the language grows. It is important to make an effort from the start as we all know how much an accent can affect ability to communicate and early habits tend to stick. English is a non-phonetic language, which means that a letter can be pronounced in many different ways or different letter can represent the same sound in different words. The following example reveals four such ways for A:
Ape Arm Apple Air
Xhosa is a phonetic language. The letters correspond to the sounds consistently, so it is an easy language to learn to read quickly.
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