Nurture your spelling by playing this KS3 quiz on words beginning at nu.
"Find out what your gift is and nurture it." - Katy Perry
Some languages, such as Italian and Welsh, are phonetic. This means that when you read the language aloud, you have a reasonable chance of pronouncing words correctly because the correspondence between each grapheme (a single letter or combination of letters) and the sound it makes is regular. Phonetic languages are not especially difficult to spell, since words are written exactly as they sound.
English is not like these languages. For instance, how many different ways can the -e- sound in a word like "tree" be written? There are at least five graphemes for this sound: e, ea, ee, ey and y.