19th October 2004, 12:49 PM
Quote:One long syllable? I don't know all the rules, could be... I know that 'shi' is a syllable and 'i' is a syllable and 'shii' isn't one of the base syllables, anyway. For pronunciation of course I was saying i but thinking that we both knew that it's pronounced e.
Like how you would say "e", not how you would pronounce it, yes. And what I'm saying is true, you can look it up for yourself. Shii is one long syllable.
Quote:Yeah, I know it's simple once you learn that (not all that complex) rules... with the Roman alphabet it's not a very hard language at all. And it seems to phonetically fit in it pretty well... the problem for us comes from the character writing system.
As for rolling r's, I can do that... you have to be able to do that in Spanish as well.
Yeah, or any slavic language. Thankfully I inherited my language skills from my mom and not my dad, who has the worst American accent you can imagine. :)