English has been widely spoken all over the world. Being a good speaker in English requires a functional knowledge of the principles of the English alphabetic writing system, which enables speakers to attend to and analyze the external sound structure of spoken words. Understanding the basic alphabetic principle requires an awareness that spoken language can be analyzed into strings of separable words, and words, in turn, into sequences of syllables and phonemes within syllables. Before understanding how the English writing system works, one must know how to read. However, learning to read is not easy.