If I didn’t have dyslexia before, I do now after seeing the awful attempts to make specific sounds stand out.

> Any advantage of the I.T.A. in making it easier for children to learn to read English was often offset by … being generally confused by having to deal with two alphabets in their early years of reading.

Japanese kids seem to manage learning 4 of them (5 if they're Korean-Japanese. And yes I'm including the Roman alphabet). Though it's true early- reading books tend to stick to just hiragana & katakana.

They manage but that doesn't mean it's good for learning.

But also, multiple symbols for a sound is a lot simpler than having two alphabets that work in completely different ways. And even worse is the two alphabets sharing symbols and giving them different interpretations.