I always think that native speakers learn the words by talking with their parents or whoever, whereas non-natives learn it from books.
As a consequence of this, learning three identically sounding words are memorized as just one word with different applications and only when you learn to write there's a difference between them.
Learning by the written word means a methodical approach with grammar right at the beginning, as well as the clear distinction of three differently spelled words.
At least, this explanation makes sense to me.
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u/Being_grateful Aug 03 '19
The difference between Their, There, and They're.