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 (vocali): a, e, i, o, u Consonants (consonanti), in bold those unique to English: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z. Vocals are the same, with EnglishContinue reading “An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 6”
