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It's probable that Esperanto speakers speak more clearly because: a) that's the purpose of speaking the language, and, b) there are few conversations between tw
by learnstats2 6y ago
It's probable that Esperanto speakers speak more clearly because:
a) that's the purpose of speaking the language, and,
b) there are few conversations between two fully fluent speakers; even if you are fluent, you can't expect your conversation partner to be.
Spanish does have phonetic spelling, but is also likely to have more elision in every-day speech.
Native speakers know and use what is understood without needing to be said, from non-verbal cues.
- 7thaccount 6y agoI can understand some Esperanto videos where the speaker is extremely fluent and talking very fast. If I could slow down the videos, I could transcribe almost the full thing even if I don't know all the vocabulary. That is impressive to me. There are a lot of languages that just sound like gibberish to me to the point that I can't even make out the sounds that well.