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Yeah, I was thought how to read at 4 or 5 by a fellow kindergartener, who I think was told by her parents. I entered elementary school where most learn how to read and write already being able to read pretty much anything in Czech.

Having a regular (and in Czech simple) transliteration is in my mind similar advancement as are letters compared to letter-words (as in Chinese).

And this is no conincidence - the way Czech is written was largerly engineered in the 19th century during the national movement.




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