But what do you do about the way we build words e.g. act becomes action, music becomes musician. If we only had one spelling for each sound, then we'd have to write acshon and musishan, and lose the base word. The system looks insane but it's utterly teachable if only teachers were taught to teach it well.

I agree. I think it would make a lot more sense and would give greater variety in expression too.

There are 26 and the singular or combined sounds make the overall words like any language.

Yeah like any language, but every language we have today is flawed and illogical and there are many ways to improve it.

Marek Svec That's what I love of Spanish, there are some letters that changes their pronunciation but are a low average, they are y and ll mostly, cause ll could do a normal "ll" sound (isn't the same as English, is alike to j sound in English), and a sh sound, but only in Argentina and Uruguay, and y can have a y sound or a i sound if it's at the end of the word, like words "soy". Also, in some countries like mine we do a differences between v and b, but we don't do it always, only when we are talking more lowly, when we are talking fast we pronounce "b", and the name of this words change, in some countries are "be grande y ve pequeña, be labial y ve dental or uve y be". And there are some sounds more that changes, like in Spain j is a very strong "hc" sound and in Latin America is a stronger h sound only and Z and C (diferent to the English one) have their own pronunciation in Spain, but in Latin America both sound like S, even in some Spanish Autonome Communities they pronounce Z and C like in Latinamerica, there are a lot of changes.

I am not sure what sound you mean, sorry

It's an allophone, and it does sound quite different from syllable-initial /l/ but for teaching purposes it doesn't help to consider it a different phoneme. All sounds are affected by their neighbouring sounds, which is why phonemic awareness is difficult, they are never entirely consistent. Extracting sounds from the speech stream is not something we would ever have to do if we didn't use them as the basis of our writing system.

Sorry for slow reply! I haven't been monitoring my youtube comments. The dark L is an allophone in the same way that aspirated and flapped t are allophones, but are perceived as a single phoneme by native speakers

Sorry, I don't speak that dialect, hope someone who does can make the video you want

Sorry you're not being taught English in a way that makes sense to you, it actually does have strong patterns and logic but often the way it is taught obscures them

@@spelfabet Well-said