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2 remarks: * The Turkish written language has had a similar transformation. There are no dictation exercises beyond the age of 12 because it's too easy. * Dut
by toolslive 13y ago
2 remarks:
* The Turkish written language has had a similar transformation. There are no dictation exercises beyond the age of 12 because it's too easy.
* Dutch is a similar 'power language' you can combine any 2 nouns in any order to create new words. For a native speaker, the meaning then is obvious.
- sampo 13y ago> There are no dictation exercises beyond the age of 12 because it's too easy. Then I am 31 years old and move from Finland to London and need to spell (dictate letter by letter) my name in a bank – something I have never done in my life. I do it really slowly, and the bank clerk probably thinks I am borderline retarded, can't even spell his own name, something even kids learn to do. :-D
- gtufano 13y agoIn Italian there are not dictation exercise beyond age of 8. ;)
- userulluipeste 13y agoNot even for punctuation and such?
- oblio 13y agoWell, you have it easy. So do we, in Romania - phonetic language. You learn the alphabet in the first grade (6-7 years) and you learn how to write words during the 2nd and 3rd grade I think. But basically once you know the alphabet you can pronounce any word. Except for, you guessed it, neologisms, words imported from non-phonetical languages. Plus we have ce/ci/ge/gi/che/chi/ghe/ghi as the only exceptions, no doubled consonnants or actually any doubled other letter for no obvious reason, no long or short sounds. If I want a long "e" (we pronounce "e" - "eh"), I write it "ee" (duh!). Idea = idee. You can hear it, you can write it. You can read it, you can say it. EZ! What we actually learn during school is higher level grammar: syntax, semantics. I'd say that Romanian is like the Python of natural languages :) (same for other phonetic languages)