Saarang said his first aspirative syllable. We have been repeating A, B and C to him just to engage him for many days and this sunday he started saying sssaah. You know … the way babies go around repeating the same syllable over and over again! We had actually been telling him A is for Apple, B is for Baby and C is for Cat. Then I realized how silly it would sound if I was told see(C) is for kat(Cat) when I start learning syllables. I haven’t got that look from Saarang yet! Maybe all kids should be taught using phonetic alphabet or something similar.

I remember some parent mentioning that in schools here kids are not taught numbers and letters in their correct order but in order of how easy they are to learn. So the numbers with straight lines go first (1, 4, 7) before the curved lines. The alphabets that are easy to voice (maybe the fricatives) go first and as a sound rather than a letter (mmm, da, ta, just like babies make ‘em).

I am just worried that in a few years I will have to sit with Saarang and explain see is for kat and not see is for sat.