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Maybe I'm just dumb but it claims simple phonetics but even after reading the pronunciation ("Say it like you mean it") section I still don't really understand
by its_ethan 3y ago
Maybe I'm just dumb but it claims simple phonetics but even after reading the pronunciation ("Say it like you mean it") section I still don't really understand how it's supposed to sound?
The singular "a" between verbs and objects, is that a long or short vowel sound - do vowels have short and long distinctions at all? It says all the consonants are pronounced how they are in English - but consonants don't have just one sound?
- anyaya 3y ago[flagged]
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- jprogr 3y agoVowels sound a bit more like in Spanish. The dictionary has pronunciations https://jprogr.github.io/buku-name/ https://jprogr.github.io/buku-name/
- int_19h 3y agoThere's no short/long distinction. For consonants, when they say that, what it usually means is "consonant by itself" (i.e. not a part of a digraph like "th", and not followed by a vowel like "e" or "i").