>My brain is full of associations between written words and funny sounds that really don't exist in the actual language.
I definitely agree on this one. At a previous stage of my life I'd read a lot of text in English and never spoke a word of it.
I sorta had this self-emergent mostly subconscious way to map English words to sounds in a way that preserved the spelling information without being too dissimilar from the real pronunciation.
Of course the whole system proved to be quite problematic when I eventually had to start speaking in English on a daily basis.
I definitely agree on this one. At a previous stage of my life I'd read a lot of text in English and never spoke a word of it. I sorta had this self-emergent mostly subconscious way to map English words to sounds in a way that preserved the spelling information without being too dissimilar from the real pronunciation.
Of course the whole system proved to be quite problematic when I eventually had to start speaking in English on a daily basis.