English pronunciation table
Why sounds come first
To feel comfortable in a language, it is very important to spend time at the beginning feeling out its sounds. That trains the muscles of your mouth, and suddenly you start to feel the logic of the language. You will also understand other people much more easily, because you know which sounds to listen for.
Careful! When we learn languages, our eyes lie to us. When we see a written word, we start hearing it differently, because we automatically fit it to our mother tongue.