And the best part is that we can with no problem spell fzyjck
American discovering languages different than English.
Haha this made me chuckle… more than expected 🙂
we don’t have any different sounds in our alphabet.. we just spell things differently than in English – you just gotta memorize it by heart
“cz” = “ch” like in chocolate
“y” = “i” as the first letter in india
“j” = “y” like in ya
[Polish in a nutshell](https://youtu.be/hfJinyofQdk?t=319) – worth watching to know how to pronounce letters; there are some minor mistakes, though.
I know, right? Attack of the Killer Consonants 🧟♂️ But every day I said thank god it’s not Cyrillic alphabet.
I don’t see a problem here, quite easy that.
Yeah, well… it’s not easy, but then you are rewarded with some consistency. Think about people learning English who learn words like ear, fear, gear….they think they know the rule… And then comes bear, wear…. And then they learn about to tear/a tear.
Wow! It’s almost like Polish and English are two totally different languages!
Like the digraph “wh” was any better. Or how one even gets “j”, “g” and “dg” all to sound like “dż” but only in some cases and not the others 😀
Czyj = whose
If you wanted to spell it the way i assume you thought it was pronounced it would be spelled “kzjdż”
While in reality it’s pronounced more like “chi-yee”
Our spelling and pronounciation is much easier, once you realise that a lot of our sounds/letters are pronounced much more lightly, sharply and with less stress than in English. It’s closer to how Italian is spoken than to English.
That’s why the word “źdźbło” is literally one syllable long. The consonants are unstressed, while remaining distinct, which is what allows us to pronounce them consecutively. Whenever i hear a learner try to pronounce it, they overstress their tounge to the point, that it would even hurt a Polish native speaker to try to pronounce it.
Once you learn the alphabet and ease up on your toungue it should become much easier.
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American people are so closed-minded.
English-speaking people don’t get to complain about spelling. Sorry. English is the most inconsistent language ever. don’t get me started on the “ough”: fought, cough, tough, dough, through, thorough, bough – all pronounced differently. And for some reason the words “pronunciation” and “to pronounce” are not spelled consistently.
It´s always rich when people from the anglosphere comment on pronunciation, given that English is a complete hodgepodge of inconsistent spellings and pronunciations.
What’s even the difficulty here?
I find westerners just start to get frustrated when a language contains letters they aren’t used to using. In this case it’s “Z”. But if it was “Chyj” there wouldn’t be such a big fuss.
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And the best part is that we can with no problem spell fzyjck
American discovering languages different than English.
Haha this made me chuckle… more than expected 🙂
we don’t have any different sounds in our alphabet.. we just spell things differently than in English – you just gotta memorize it by heart
“cz” = “ch” like in chocolate
“y” = “i” as the first letter in india
“j” = “y” like in ya
[Polish in a nutshell](https://youtu.be/hfJinyofQdk?t=319) – worth watching to know how to pronounce letters; there are some minor mistakes, though.
I know, right? Attack of the Killer Consonants 🧟♂️ But every day I said thank god it’s not Cyrillic alphabet.
I don’t see a problem here, quite easy that.
Yeah, well… it’s not easy, but then you are rewarded with some consistency. Think about people learning English who learn words like ear, fear, gear….they think they know the rule… And then comes bear, wear…. And then they learn about to tear/a tear.
Wow! It’s almost like Polish and English are two totally different languages!
Like the digraph “wh” was any better. Or how one even gets “j”, “g” and “dg” all to sound like “dż” but only in some cases and not the others 😀
Czyj = whose
If you wanted to spell it the way i assume you thought it was pronounced it would be spelled “kzjdż”
While in reality it’s pronounced more like “chi-yee”
Our spelling and pronounciation is much easier, once you realise that a lot of our sounds/letters are pronounced much more lightly, sharply and with less stress than in English. It’s closer to how Italian is spoken than to English.
That’s why the word “źdźbło” is literally one syllable long. The consonants are unstressed, while remaining distinct, which is what allows us to pronounce them consecutively. Whenever i hear a learner try to pronounce it, they overstress their tounge to the point, that it would even hurt a Polish native speaker to try to pronounce it.
Once you learn the alphabet and ease up on your toungue it should become much easier.
queue
American people are so closed-minded.
English-speaking people don’t get to complain about spelling. Sorry. English is the most inconsistent language ever. don’t get me started on the “ough”: fought, cough, tough, dough, through, thorough, bough – all pronounced differently. And for some reason the words “pronunciation” and “to pronounce” are not spelled consistently.
It´s always rich when people from the anglosphere comment on pronunciation, given that English is a complete hodgepodge of inconsistent spellings and pronunciations.
What’s even the difficulty here?
I find westerners just start to get frustrated when a language contains letters they aren’t used to using. In this case it’s “Z”. But if it was “Chyj” there wouldn’t be such a big fuss.