Oh my God I've been reading today an article about how to develop written skills in childre. According to a British Journal English speaking kids need a longer time to read and write than the other kids whose languages use an alphabet. Besides, one out of five of all English speakers have serious difficulties when reading. These amazing data are due to the incredibly complex system of English, given that one single sound can be written in many ways, such as long i which is read the same in people, leed, leap, Pete... and also many sounds can be represented by the same letters, one of the best example might be the pair of vowels "ea", that can expressed many sounds as in break, read (participle), leap... From the point of view of a Spanish native speaker, this written system might seem chaotic (well it truly seems), this is due to the fact that Spanish sound-letter correspondence is way clearer than English one.