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Do I need to learn some Spanish before my camino? Yeah, you probably should...
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[QUOTE="dick bird, post: 1161676, member: 93571"] This is the problem with linguistics, how do you represent sounds in visual form, e.g. writing. One way to do this (and it is what language teachers and linguistic academics do) is to use the IPA. Not India Pale Ale, the International Phonetic Alphabet which has a symbol for every sound in every language, so far. Which is lovely for teachers of languages and professors of linguistics but not much use for the normal run of humanity because a) these symbols are a pain in the butt to introduce into normal text and b) the normal run of humanity has no idea of what these symbols represent. So us language teachers and linguistic professors (I belong to the former category) have to have recourse to descriptive language, such as ´soft s´ etc. As jrobasdon points out, there is no exact, perfect relationship between sounds and letters in the alphabet. RP English (aka posh British) or Southern British Standard (my accent, middle class English) use around 44 sounds represented by an alphabet with´26 letters (and let´s not get started on right, write, rite). The so-called Roman alphabet just about works for Spanish Castilian, i.e. you know from the spelling how to say a word, but in Latin America you have problems with samba/zamba, coser/cozer not to mention the way Argentinians and Uruguayans pronounce words with ll in them - when I went to fill up a car in Patagonia I was asked what sounded like ´sheno´? Anyway, I really have to thank you for explaining how to pronounce ´Saoirse´. Thank you. [/QUOTE]
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