In Curriculum vitae^x, Consonants^x, CV^x

Hi, You are taking the wrong approach in counting consonants and vowels. eg phone and fox both have one syllable, despite the double consonants 'ph'. Consider the sound, not the letters. the word "television", which has a similar consonant/vowel sequence, is divided as tele-vi-sion, that is...

I probably wasn't clear on that. What I meant to ask is how do you know how to divide a word into syllables if you're writing it down? For example in Italian, my language, if you're writing a word and you need to break it, there are very clear rules about it, so you don't usually have doubts. For...