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JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 14 hours agoa lot of swallowed and mumbled consonants
This has been my experience learning French. The written language and the spoken one are pretty wildly out of tune, with up to ~5 letters at the ends of some words either not pronounced at all, or heavily swallowed.
The pronunciation of Castellano (i.e. a sister language) was vastly easier for me.
Griffus@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Like learning Norwegian (bokmål) while living on the west coast. French vocal r, secondary Norwegian language, one hour travel north or south can be regarded as a completely new language. Nice fjords, though.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 hours ago
In all honesty, I’d be absolutely terrified of trying to learn a Nordic language, which is absolutely NOT due to the lovely Nordic people I’ve met across the years.
It’s a “me” problem, and case-closed, please.