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by jaanos
Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:39 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Language Instruction in Different Countries
Replies: 86
Views: 12759

Re: Language Instruction in Different Countries

In Primorska (Littoral), the region closest to Italy, there's more instruction in Italian, and Italian might be the foreign language pupils learn in primary school instead of English... or not. I'm not exactly sure. Not quite. We've had Italian classes from the first year of primary school on, and ...
by jaanos
Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:00 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Slovene Lessons - Ucne ure slovenscine
Replies: 59
Views: 39050

??? What's your source on this? Maybe it centralises phonetically, but it's certainly not [ i ]... I'd go for a [@\] at most, or maybe even [1], but even that'd be pretty dialectal, in my opinion... The SSKJ states it as [e], inevitably. And why would loanwords be exceptions? (They usually aren't, ...
by jaanos
Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:19 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Slovene Lessons - Ucne ure slovenscine
Replies: 59
Views: 39050

cerkev ["ts)erk@u_^] I thought you'd forgotten the /e/ -> /i/ (/_r/) rule, but this one confused me. I know this sound change might have gone the other way round in your dialect, but the standard pronunciation is ["ts)irk@u_^]. So, this is the rule: /e/ changes to /i/ before /r/ in stressed syllabl...
by jaanos
Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:20 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: No latin names of month...
Replies: 62
Views: 61680

Re: No latin names of month...

Croatian Serbian uses latin names siječanj, veljača, o?ujak, travanj, svibanj, lipanj, srpanj, kolovoz, rujan, listopad, studeni, prosinac Slovenian Also uses latin names prosinec, svečan, s u?ec, mali traven, veliki traven, ro?nik, mali srpan, veliki srpan, kim a vec, vinotok, listopad, gruden Cze...