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Dina:
Yes, that is what is so amazing of learning new languages, I believe. It opens your mind (at least a little). Even basic ideas like the gendered nouns. For instance, in English the word "blood" (like all nouns) is genderless. The word with the same meaning in Spanish, "sangre", is feminine. But in French, the word "sang" is masculine.
Gilitine_Memitim:
And each one is very difficult to pick up as a full grown adult. The weirdest part for learning Russian right now is adjusting to an alphabet that's not Latin based. Or at least not fully.
Dina:
Of course, that sounds very challenging. Besides the way you wrote them, are the Cyrillic letters representing sounds that are different than in English? (Well, actually English is complicated that way. Some letter sound different depending on the rest of the word. That (mostly) don't happen in Spanish). I mean, there is a character representing a sound that is not in the English alphabet?
Gilitine_Memitim:
я=ya у=oo ч=ch р=r с=s к=k и=i like the i in ski й=y
at least roughly.
And they can change depending on stress of the word. Some words mean different things if you put a different stress on it.
Dina:
Yes, that happens in Spanish too.
Like: mato = kill, mató= killed. Cobra= cobra, Cobrá: retrieve your payment.
--- Quote ---я=ya у=oo ч=ch р=r с=s к=k и=i like the i in ski й=y
--- End quote ---
Interesting. I knew a couple of those, but not most of them.
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