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It’s relatively easy for an English speaker to learn because we have a lot of French vocabulary, but the correspondence between pronunciation and spelling isn’t
by evincarofautumn 8y ago
It’s relatively easy for an English speaker to learn because we have a lot of French vocabulary, but the correspondence between pronunciation and spelling isn’t simple[1]—although granted it is somewhat simpler than English[2].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_orthography#Sound_to_spelling_correspondences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_orthography#Sound_to_sp...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography#Spelling_patterns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography#Spelling_p...