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It poses problem for native speakers as well. After all, there are no Spelling Bee competitions in France, or Germany ... or anywhere.
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 6y ago
It poses problem for native speakers as well. After all, there are no Spelling Bee competitions in France, or Germany ... or anywhere.
- matkoniecz 6y agoThere are in Poland. I suspect that they are also elsewhere, any language will have at least some tricky words. See https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Og%C3%B3lnopolskie_Dyktando https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Og%C3%B3lnopolskie_Dyktando
- Koshkin 6y agoHere’s one: Chrząszcz.
- ajuc 6y agoIn Polish the mapping letters->sounds is pretty simple, and nobody asks kids to pronounce a word (because anybody can do it after learning the general rules for a few weeks). But the mapping sounds->letters isn't as obvious, because there's some tech debt there (ch == h, ó == u, rz == ż or sz depending on the preceding letter). So if you know how the word sounds you're not always sure how it's spelled, but if you know how it's spelled you always know how it sounds. In English the mapping is non-obvious both ways.
- occamrazor 6y agoThere are in French
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 6y agoI don't see the point ... One can easily spell any french word, there are hard rules.