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I learned to read in foreigner and soon after moved to an English country at age 6.

I was an atrocious speller until I moved back to foreign-land and had to take English class with my schoolmates.

Learning how people mispronounce English phonetically fixed most of my spelling.

I'm English and an atrocious speller until I started learning Finnish and learned to pronounce the English words phonetically in my head using the Finnish phonetic system.

That's awesome, I'm Finnish but when at school in England I was very quickly one of the best spellers in my class.

I think learning to mispronounced English words is an under appreciated spelling technique.

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