English Language: Why English Is Not A Phonetic Language

I began the process of learning to physically write when I was probably 3; I knew how to write the alphabet and my name before I went to kindergarten. I learned how to write words, then sentences, and then short paragraphs in the first three years of elementary school, but continued to learn how to format my writing all the way through high school and beyond. The writing system of English is fairly complex, or so I have been told. There are 26 letters and 44 phonemes that can be combined in hundreds of ways to make words; English is not a phonetic language, meaning that there is not a letter for each sound and one letter might make multiple sounds depending on how and where they are placed in a word (could/cough/through) which makes it even more confusing for others to learn to spell and pronounce. English uses the Roman alphabet for its script. The print moves from left to right, top to bottom on the page, and in English, you capitalize the first letter of each sentence and proper nouns. There are, what I consider, a ton of rules for when to use what punctuation mark and why. According to topic five, English uses the CVC syllable structure which means that consonants can come at the beginning and at the end of words with vowels in between; there are other spelling patterns in English, but the CVC structure is the basis for most of them.

In my linguistics class, I researched the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Arabic. The writing system of Arabic is very different