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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 41 of 43 11 September 2013 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you put it that way, then I'm apt to become cynical and think that people are making excuses. If someone doesn't want to do something, then he/she will find a way to weasel out of it.
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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4713 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 42 of 43 11 September 2013 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | ||
I have to agree that that's the case in 90% of the cases, maybe more. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6657 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 43 of 43 23 September 2013 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I try to imagine some sort of edict changing the alphabet that English uses, and it is difficult not to have sympathy for people who find themselves in that position.
I took a Russian class years ago. I can still sound out Russian words when I see them, but I don't often know what they mean. When I was taking a linguistics class years later, I was told that I should feel inadequate if I didn't know the Greek alphabet because of its similarity to the International Phonetic Alphabet. No comment. I learned the Greek alphabet. I had a similar experience to my Russian experience with Hebrew. It is more difficult for me to sound out and recognize Hebrew words that are cognates with English and other languages I speak. Arabic has intimidated me. Maybe I'll have another post on this subject in a few years. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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