As we saw [in one of the previous lessons], the Serbian language has a most useful peculiarity: you read what you write, you write what you speak! For someone coming from Latin-based languages (Italian, French, English, German, you name it), this is a blessing! We can imagine, though, how our languages may look and sound from a Serbian’s perspective. In this lesson, we will look at some _phonemes_ and at how they are transcribed into _graphemes_ in the different languages.
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An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 6
Phonetic transcription (Part 1) Both Italian and English have vocals and consonants, namely: Vocals are the same, with English sporting five more consonants (J, K, W, X, Y) than Italian. That’s 5 vocals each, 16 consonants in Italian and 21 in English, total 21 letters in Italian and 26 in English. Serbian beats them both,Continue reading “An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 6”
An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 5
Before delving deep into the next chapter, I would like to share my recent first-hand experience with the differences between _ekavski_ and _ijekavski._
An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 3
In [Lesson 1], the lesson ended with a personally composed rhythm to memorise the order of letters of the Cyrillic alphabet. A few days later, I discovered a song that Serbian kids have been using for the last 30 years at least.
An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 2
After specifying what alphabet is in use in each country of the old Jugoslavia, we can look at some of the differences between the two variants.
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