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If you are a parent or teacher of a child who is learning to read, you may have some idea of how long it takes to learn to read English. Due to the way students must presently learn to read, all but the most brilliant students need at least two years to learn enough words so that they can continue to increase their reading vocabulary after reading instruction in school ends. Other than remedial reading instruction, often lasting until the first year of college, most reading instruction in American schools e
Do you have any idea of how long it takes to learn to read most other languages? Dr. Frank Laubach spent almost his entire adult life — more than 40 years — teaching thousands of students around the world how to read in languages other than English. He taught in more than 300 languages. He prepared reading primers for 313 languages and even invented spelling systems for 220 unwritten languages. He very carefully documented his teaching experiences in his books, Teaching the World to Read and Forty Years Wit
Was Dr. Laubach’s ability to teach students to read so quickly because he carefully chose only very simple languages in which to teach? What was Dr. Laubach’s explanation for his remarkable success? He stated that he could teach his students to read quickly because — without carefully choosing simple languages — 98% of the languages in which he taught spelled nearly all of their words the way they sound! He stated on page 48 of his book, Forty Years With the Silent Billion , “If we spelled English phonetica