November 25, 2007at 3:45 am
· Filed under General language learning, Learn Polish, Learn Russian, Learn Ukrainian
Phonetic Slavic languages
Phonetic comes from ancient Greek meaning ’sound - voice’. The Slavic languages are phonetic. This is one great advantage when trying to learn. Despite the strange streams of consonants or the Cyrillic alphabet, once you learn the 50 or so sound combinations and letters you can read as you would speak. Spelling is […]
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Tags: alphabet, language, phonetic, Polish, russian, slavic, Ukrainian
October 2, 2007at 8:18 am
· Filed under Brain and language learning, Children, babies and language, General language learning
Phonetic ability connected to a child’s first language
If you spoke Polish as a child your phonetic language ability is amazing, when it comes to pronouncing other languages because of the richness of the Polish language. However, you might have trouble with ‘A’ or ‘O’ or even more the sound “th” because it is not really […]
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