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• colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  German is phonetic though - once you know how pronunciation maps to the alphabet (and certain compounds), it becomes easier to spell any new word. It’s actually why there’s no Spelling Bee in German.

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I learnt to write after hearing in Grundschule. It doesn’t work that well.

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• Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I gave up on duolingo very quickly because it had a ton of clearly wrong stuff too. Drops and Rosetta Stone have much better content for learning German.

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I once talk to a guy that was learning portuguese all by himself using Langenscheidt’s portuguese course.

    They are pretty neat.

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• Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s your issue? Not adjective declination?

  I’m nearly at the end of Duolingo’s German content and spelling has mostly been quite easy (as a native English speaker). You want a spelling challenge, try French.

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  • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So we have this verb and the ending in third person plural is -ent but we just dont pronounce that so it pronounces the same way as third person singular…

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  • obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fucking French. ‘we’re never, ever going to say this ‘h’ character, but you still need it to spell words correctly because fuck you, that’s why.’

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    • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      English isn’t exactly innocent there. See knight, plumber, mnemonic, pterodactyl.

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      • weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well those are words descendent from Latin and Greek.

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