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Clarification Edit: for people who speak English natively and are learning a second language

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's made me aware of how much I appreciate reliable consistent pronunciation in Spanish (at least compared to English). And it's given me a huge amount of sympathy for people who are learning English and trying to speak to native English speakers :)

But I wouldn't say it's shown me how broken English is. I mean, I think it's more broken than Spanish, but that could just be a comment on how much I still have to learn about Spanish :P

[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Same with consistent pronunciation in Indonesian - it's so much better. I feel sorry for little kids learning to read English and getting told to 'sound it out'. Sure thing, which of the five to nine sounds shall I use for the letter 'a'?

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 months ago

That could just be a comment on how much I still have to learn about Spanish :P

Gotten into verbal tenses yet..? 😉

But, hey, at least it doesn't have [weak pronouns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_personal_pronouns#:~:text=The%20weak%20pronouns%20(Catalan%3A%20pronoms,different%20element%20of%20the%20sentence.) as we do in Catalan... Those can be confusing even for native speakers! 😅