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I'm a native English speaker, and was thrilled by German's logical spelling when I first started learning the language. But then my German vocabulary began to
by dpifke 5y ago
I'm a native English speaker, and was thrilled by German's logical spelling when I first started learning the language. But then my German vocabulary began to include borrowed words from French and English, where spelling conventions go out the window.
- vlunkr 5y agoLearning Spanish was the same for me. Learning character pronunciations and where to place emphasis is incredibly easy. Once you have that down you can pronounce or spell almost any word.
- ThePadawan 5y agoI'm a German native speaker, and I still sometimes get tripped up by things like it being spelled "Flannel" in English, but "Flanell" in German.
- lokedhs 5y agoSame spelling in Swedish, and until you mentioned it just now, I never even realised that the word is spelled differently in English. It's not a common word for me to use, but if I had been put in the situation where I had to use it in English, it's likely I'd use the Swedish spelling.
- majewsky 5y agoFor "Flannel" and "Flanell", it makes a surprising amount of sense when you then look at the pronounciation. The English word is stressed on the first syllable, like "FLANnel", which makes the N sound longer, whereas Germans say "flaNELL", which makes the final L sound longer.
- csunbird 5y agoTry Turkish, everything is spelled as they are written, although the grammar will make you insane.