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> In contrast Spanish […] you can read anything correctly even if you have no clue what you’re saying. Except for the letter X which has 3 pronunciations, and
by jgtrosh 4y ago
> In contrast Spanish […] you can read anything correctly even if you have no clue what you’re saying.
Except for the letter X which has 3 pronunciations, and some other weird stuff. Admittedly, nothing as bad as French or English.
- MrJohz 4y agoThe trick with French is not to think about it in terms of individual letters, but rather letter clusters, and then it becomes fairly regular. The individual letters can do wild things, but a given combination of letters generally has fairly clear rules about how it should be spoken. This is very different to English where, for example, "ough" can be pronounced in several different ways just by putting different letters in front of it. (oo, uff, ow, uh, oh, etc).
- Sai_ 4y agoI wish I’d met you while trying to, and not really succeeding at, learning French 101 at the local alliance francaise. Your comment actually articulates something I’ve always sensed but never explicitly acknowledged.