Re: Some questions
- From: Tuomas Kilpeläinen <tuokil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:53:53 +0300
Jess Askin kirjoitti:
Even with all the irregularities, like the many ways to pronounce -ough? Or the shift of emphasis in different forms of the word, like "record" noun and "record" verb?
I guess that could be difficult, especially if one didn't have any natural aptitude in languages and had to study all the exceptions.
I don't find that part too bad, mostly because their spelling is reasonably phonetic. Once you learn the ch's and umlauted vowels, it's smooth sailing. Oh, and remembering to change the g sound to a k sound at the end of a word, etc.
It's easy to pronounce, but to my ear it doesn't sound beautiful. That's of personal preference, of course.
If someone knows any beautiful songs in German, I'd appreciate the tip. I've always thought that a language is most beautiful when sung. I remember hearing a song called "Berlin Alexanderplatz" or something similar years ago and I think that was the only beautiful German song I've heard.
I always thought Swedish and German were more alike than either is to English. Of course, that wouldn't necessarily make German easier to learn for a Swede.
Swedish and German are indeed a lot like each other. The pro-Swedish people in Finland use it as an argument: "After learning Swedish in school, it's much easier to learn German." I was merely referring to the fact that English and Swedish are easy languages, neither has complicated verb conjugation and are grammatically rather simple.
-- tk .
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