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Wazazi wangu walifanyiwa ukaguzi wa kijenetikia. Nimegundua kwamba mimi ni mtu wa jamaa wa Joseph Stalin. My parents had themselves genetically tested. I've found out that I'm related to Joseph Stalin. Mon première réaction étais chercher le like bouton, la deuxième étais rire (de moi). My first re...

Well, I admit I didn't explain what I meant exactly; yeah, I wanted to imply Polish has this assimilation but English doesn't and ask how you "deal" with clusters having obstruents of different voicing. It like seems impossible to me to preserve them in any other way than lengthening or shortening o...

Afghanistan - in Polish I have something like /avganistan/ [ävɡ̠ä̃ˈɲ̟is̪t̪ä̃n̪] or [äʋʀ̝ä̃ˈis̪t̪ä̃n̪] and therefore I was surprised Wiktionary told me this /æfˈɡænɪˌstɑːn/. Does /f/ surface only in something like short /æ/?

what
start
feel
tower
tire
it'd
it'd have
want to
isn't it innit?
what have you whatcha?
Also, do you turn -ing to (for instance trying to) into [ɾ̃ə] or [nə]?

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Is there anybody able to give their Hebrew words pronunciations?

next: irrigate; irrigation Zʼaqtho: zøpʼ [ˈsøpʼ] water (stem) îzøpʼ [ˈɯsøpʼ] water ( î is a nature class marker) îzøpʼkhun [ˈɯsøpxỹː] with water ( khun [kũː] with) îmizøpʼkhun [ˌɯmiˈsøpxỹː] to water zaîmizøpʼkhun [ˌzɛɰmiˈsøpxỹː] to irrigate ( za [zɑ] onto) êzaîmizøpʼkhun [ɤˌzɛɰmiˈsøpxỹː] irrigation...

Yekaterinburg: I'm not familar with it, so I'm unsure about the stress, but I'm inclined to do /jɛˈkætɚɪnbɚg/ Russians have ultimate stress here. Bryansk: I'm not even sure what language this is from. Assuming Russian and it's originally /bʲrʲansk/ or something like that, /briˈænsk/ or maybe /bræns...

Silesia Polish Cracow/Krakow Moscow Warsaw Saint Petersburg Yekaterinburg Omsk Bryansk Lipetsk Smolensk Pskov Lodz/Łódź Gdańsk Lviv Budapest Ljubljana Košice Skopje Aarhus I know it may be too long, but there's just too many names which can't be so easily adapted into English phonotactics by me, a ...

I used this constrution as it is almost word-to-word translation of what I'd say in Polish so it makes more sense for me; it also is required in our English teaching programme and appears frequently in texts and exercises. KathTheDragon, pourquoi tu ne peux pas écrire (ne peux écrire rien ? :? aidez...

finlay wrote:Singers tend to use American accents regardless

Yeah, I noticed that, but for most of the time they have some British-like features, for example non-rhoticity ascend and specific vowel qualities so I thought this might have already reached your country.

I have l-vocalisation in only one word, tylko ("only"), but it can be similar to that disappearance of l in the translation of this word for some native speakers, just a simplification of a frequent word. Aussies, would you be so kind and give your pronunciations of my last list? Thanks Are there an...

Ok, I'm back and I think I got over my unability to write in English. I got surprised by how bad my English was because it was really good at least until May - I participated in a voivodeship English competition and I got around 85% in the final stage (which still was lower than required 90%). Hardl...

I wanted to say I think this process of eliminating dialects and language diversity was a sort of crime in my opinion This day and this conversation went so wrong I think I'll leave this forum for a couple days. I just can't believe I could make so many mistakes in such short texts. I also hesitated...

Mijn Poolse vriend heeft me verklaard dat er zijn heel weinig dialekten van Pools omdat de taal wel gestandaardiseerd is door de tijd heen. My Polish friend explained to me that there are very few dialects of Polish because the language has been well standardized throughout time. I met a man once w...

To słowo wygląda jak zapożyczenie z a rabskiego. This word looks like a loan from Arabic. And now you switched from Slavic to German. I don't wanna junk this thread so I'll try to clarify this in just one post: he said during his talk that some years before he had been to Germany for a year - long ...

Ponieważ ja mówię tylko trochę po p olsku. Because I only speak a little Polish. Thank you very much! A little time of laughter about your orthography changed my mood immediately. Do you have such dreams? Tak, czasami mam sny na w językach obcych. Yes, sometimes I have dreams in foreign languages.

Viktor77 wrote:*Though to be honest the whole sentence needs rewriting.

The holidays erase most of my memory .
Meh, why is hwhatting the only one who tries to write in Polish? I'm being corrected more than I'm correcting. It's a bit sad.

I don't wanna junk this thread so I'll try to clarify this in just one post: he said during his talk that some years before he had been to Germany for a year long exchange programme and at that time he hadhadlearnt learnt German language and had started dreaming in it so he could then describe this ...

It is such an old film that I had forgotten what is happen ing s in it. So you use present simple to describe films but present progressive for pictures? I 've recently found a video on YouTube in which a man said he had admitted he had really kn own ew German when he had started dreaming in this t...

Remind us, how old are you so that whole my life is only a part of yours? I'm 51. I started learning Polish 30 years ago, but I have little practice using it actively outside of the ZBB. Maybe mię was obsolescent even back then, but nobody told me. :-) Я б тебе сказал. Je te le dirais. I'd tell you...

учиться means "to learn", the object of learning is either a noun in the dative case (like in the sentence above) or an infinitive (e.g. учиться плавать "to learn to swim"). :o Я изучился моей учительницей, что это должно быть «я учу язык», даже, когда я учусь. :o J'ai été enseigné que ce devrait ê...

Hakuna matata Это так старый фильм, что я забыл, что в нём происходит. C'est un film tellement vieux que j'ai oublié que s'est passé/passait/se passe (?) dans lui. It is such an old film that I had forgotten what is happening in it. Мы должны учить ся английск ому язык у I don't quite understand yo...

been thinking perhaps i should go to canada... Я раз побывала. Шёл там снег. I went once. It snowed. Je me demande est-ce que il a jamais neigé à Malte, ce paraît intéressant pour moi. Connaissez-vous la réponse? Я себя спрашиваю, снежило ли когда-либо на Мальте, мне это кажется интересным. Знаете ...

[j] [ɟʝ] [cç]
1. Fortition, which seems to me ok especially before back vowels.
2. Devoicing, which could happen in e.g. "Great Consonant Shift", but making it alone isn't that unusual, I think.

For some of speakers of very nonstandard Polish (including me while speaking with them) endings -ę and -ą carrying every possible meaning are [ ɜ ʌ ] phrase-finally and [ ɜ̃m ʌ̃m ] in the middle of sentences. Here I give some examples: Kupi ę sobie coś nowego. I'll buy something new. Coś chyba sobie...