On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Italian is by far one of the simplest languages around to pronounce
You probably don't realize it, but Italian has a certain number of odd
rules as well, in the sense that "what you read is not what you pronounce".
I'm not just referring to oddities such as "c" pronounced "tsh" ("Non c'è") and
"sch" as "sck" (I hear people saying "brushetta" all the time around here,
it irritates me :-)) but also about the importance of the emphasis. You can
pronounce a perfectly grammatically correct sentence in Italian and get
blank stares from native speakers if you don't put the emphasis where it
belongs. I've been there :-)
I think Japanese is pretty easy and straightforward to pronounce (assuming
it's written in romaji, Roman alphabet, of course). All the sounds are two
letter syllables made of one consonant and one vowel. Never a surprise
there. Obviously, it makes up for this ease in pronouncing by being
impossible to read unless you spend years studying its three alphabets :-)
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Cédric
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