Spell the Sounds Part Two

See how silly our English spelling system is. Learn the easy way to spell every word you can say. Teach your children to read and write in record time.

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• English
• read
• write
• learn
• children
• kids
• phonics
• phonetic
• alphabet
• unifon

[CSGraves]

Last year I wanted to make an old fashioned ink and paper 'zine using an alternative alphabet. I liked the idea of using a phonemic orthography, but I didn't want it to be so alien that nobody could figure it out, so I decided to go with Unifon, which is much more familiar than the Shavian alphabet. One point of confusion for me is that the O and inverted V can sometimes make the same sound according to which chart or example you look at: the "a" in ball and the "o" in pond.

[unifonguru]

Thanks for the interest in Unifon. Everybody has trouble with one or two letters, depending on where you live and your dialect. For more details, contact me at the web site through the support@unifon email. I'd like more data on your proposed magazine.

Meanwhile, you can download (it's free) the new 9,000-word transphonal dictionary at the web site in PDF format. its Unifon spelling is the dictionary key for broadcast standard American speech.

[Complabteacher]

This video is very informal, thanks for the Insights on the uniform language.

[shbsuri]

Aren't you afraid that if things are spelled the way they sound that English will lose its unity as a language. With some exceptions, every dialect of english spells words the same way, but may pronounce them radically differently. How will unifon solve this problem?

[CSGraves]

If you have a Unifon font installed, all the letters are easily accessible either using the letter keys alone or by holding shift for some of them. It takes practice, but then so would learning to access existing digraphs easily on a given OS.

[GainerSoCalLA]

You have obviously put a lot of work into this, and I commend you. I just think that digraphs are easier, since we won't need new keyboards and such.

[majrbett]

While it is true that an illiterate could learn to read and write in Unifon in 3 months, it is also true that this could be done in any dictionary key and any highly phonemic written language.