On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 14:23, Radoslaw Skorupka <00000471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> I'm happy Polish has no doubts regarding pronunciation. No flavours, > different versions, etc. > And it is IMHO very clearly and simply defined. Note, it doesn't mean > the Polish is easy to learn to at least easy to speak. A very old joke has it that the Polish creator of the constructed language Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, created it rather than learn Polish. (Of course he did speak Polish, though perhaps not as a native language.) > BTW: German pronunciation rules are also quite easy and consistent. As are those for French. But there are often several different ways to spell a given pronunciation in German. And some cases where you can't pronounce a word from its spelling without knowing the meaning, or at least the origin of the word. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
