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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.

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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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