1. A phonetics system for the English language including a plurality of tiles, each tile including one or more letters that have a sound denoted by a color marking on said tile, said plurality including vowel tiles associating one color with short single vowel sounds, vowel tiles associating a second color with long single vowel sounds, digraph tiles bearing the color of vowels that commonly appear in English words with said digraph, vowel/digraph combination tiles bearing the colors associated with the sound of the vowel in said vowel/digraph combination in English words, and tiles bearing vowel combinations marked with the colors associated with the vowel sounds said vowel combinations commonly have in English words.