= Сообщение: 5247 из 12549 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Robert Bashe 2:2448/44 21 Aug 17 10:49:26 Кому : Gerrit Kuehn 21 Aug 17 10:49:26 Тема : Swedish meatballs ... FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:2448/44+599aa029 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:240/12+5946cd23 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:240/12+5946cd27 ============================================================================== Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Robert Bashe on Sunday August 20 2017 at 10:17:
RB>> you weren't born in the country you live in. Without help, a native RB>> German can't pronounce "Bashe" as it is pronounced in the States, The RB>> "a" is a dipthong", and the "e" is silent.
GK> The main reason for this is that there is no single set of standard GK> rules in English how to pronounce things, especially not for names.
Unfortunately, as I later learned, this also applies to Russian. Various Russian words are pronounced completely differently than they are spelled.
GK> Plus, this stuff varies heavily even within a single English-speaking GK> country. For example, it is completely unpredictable if the "e" at the GK> end of your name should be silent or not. In that respect, German is GK> easier...
Indeed, German is much easier on the pronunciation side, you pronounce the letters as they stand. The difficulty in German (aside from the prepositions, which are a real problem in any language) is the genders. English has none, French two, and German three (masculine, feminine, neuter). I still make plenty of mistakes in German because I'm not sure of the gender of a word. You have to be born into a language to speak it perfectly.
