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The most arduous challenge I faced as a child was spelling the word, 'beautiful'. As with many other challenges I faced when I was 6, I had no system to draw on - no toolkit to access....or did I?...yes I did, it's just that I had to construct it myself. 

It's the 3 vowels in a row that makes it so mysterious. The solution I found was to sound out each of the vowels and remember that. So, in my head, instead of pronouncing 'beautiful' as you were supposed to, I would sound out each vowel. So it was like - be..a..u..tiful. 

I still sound it out like that to remember how to spell 'beautiful'.