I understand how letter combinations in french are hard to get at first and there are sometimes many ways to write a sound, but once you learn them you will always know how a new word is pronounced. English is such a joke of a language that you never know how a word is pronounced until you hear it or you happen to know its ethymology...
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How do you even read Russian if you don't know its alphabet
Slavic languages: nothing is silent. We write as we speak. For this we will also write your name as we think it should be written.
Example: Hju Džekman
Fun fact, Poles in their infinite wisdom switched from using Cyrillic alphabet which naturally maps to Polish sounds https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/polishcyrillic.htm
Huh. NATOpedia tells me that the Latin has always been the predominant script for Polish. But it only traces this back to the 13^th^ century or maybe the 10^th^, coinciding with the Christianization of Poland. Supposedly it was only a spoken previously, which sounds to me like historical revisionism to erase a Cyrillic predecessor. But if Cryllic only dates back to the 10^th^ century… 🤷
they actually do have a link about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic
"Write as we speak"
The biggest lie of the russian language.
In theory yes, but pronounciation of о depends on if it has stress or not and stress of the word you have to just know.
Funny, but that last one counts for Gaelic, not French.
ils huent = they boo
only the u is needed
As someone learning french, all you gotta do is take an english word, add a bunch of vowels, and Vièoulâh!
I swear the French just pronounce their words based on vibes

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