[p] build that city on a hill

Myrika Tears · 04-27-2012, 01:14 PM

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(318) Something a simple, yes Myri. /ninjaedits prev post

Sparrow herself seemed surprised by the ability, but Myri thought perhaps the understanding of the spoken word helped somewhat with reading. She'd struggled at understanding the written word roughly the same time she was learning how to talk altogether -- reading as a child was a wonderful thing, nosing through the large, flat books capable of staying open between her little paws. As she grew older, it became more frustrating, at least until she grew hands. Holding open thicker books was more difficult -- but not impossible -- with paws and nose. Still, more than one page had torn with her efforts.

The redhead nodded enthusiastically to Sparrow, and smiled again, impressed by the ease with which she was accepting everything. If teaching everyone was so simple, the world would be full of teachers. Reading was a different beast than fighting, however, and Myrika knew it was probably easier to teach reading than fighting. There's 26 letters. Numbers, too, but there's only 10 of them, just repeated over and over. Don't worry about numbers just yet, though. Just letters for now! She was enthusiastic, moreso because Sparrow seemed to be taking in the lessons quite well.

Close again! she declared, smiling still. The vowels -- a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y -- those are tough because they have different sounds. "Dog" has an o in the middle, but "old" has one at the beginning. D-o-g and o-l-d. Different sounds -- short and long, the woman said. The rest of the letters -- consonants -- are a little easier, they're pretty straightforward. Some have similar sounds, though -- cot and kill, for example -- c-o-t and k-i-l-l. She hadn't even gotten to silent letters yet, but this was enough to leave Sparrow with. How about cut and cat? she asked, hoping the vowels might become clearer to Sparrow with a few examples.

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