alt Hacker News> Meanwhile the written language has almost no correlation with the spoken language.
Oh, just like English!
/s sorry I'm only half-joking but written English makes no sense
> Meanwhile the written language has almost no correlation with the spoken language.
Oh, just like English!
/s sorry I'm only half-joking but written English makes no sense
I've been learning Greek at the same time my son has been learning to write. By my count, Greek has like 40 basic pronunciation rules; English has something like 500.
But I also spent over a decade learning Mandarin and am still trying to maintain it... the characters are just another level. My son at least can take a stab at reading words he hasn't seen before; having to look up basically every new character is quite a grind.