oozy wrote: Accents over letters "č ď dž ľ ň š ť ž" means soft pronoucation as in "č" "chick" for example (others are hard to find english example, btw I think that there is no such sound like "ť" in english).
Nameless wrote:And one more thing on some letters with ˇ - ď, ť, ň, ľ.
If letters d, t, n or l are followed by "e" or "i", we pronounce them the same way as ď, ť, ň or ľ, but we write it without "ˇ"
rotzi wrote:So how is "formálne pozdravy" (formal greetings) pronounced?
If I'm not mistaken, then it's formálne, not formálňe. Right?
rotzi wrote:So is the following rule valid?
-- Xe is normally pronounced X'e (X = d,t,n,l)
-- if Xe is actually Xé but the e was shortened because a long syllable precedes Xe, then the pronunciatoin is Xe, not X'e.
rotzi wrote:Second question:
How many people actually pronounce "le" as "ľe"?
oozy wrote:rotzi wrote:So is the following rule valid?
-- Xe is normally pronounced X'e (X = d,t,n,l)
-- if Xe is actually Xé but the e was shortened because a long syllable precedes Xe, then the pronunciatoin is Xe, not X'e.
Hm, I'm not sure, maybe an example would help me.
oozy wrote:rotzi wrote:Second question:
How many people actually pronounce "le" as "ľe"?
In fact, almost nobody. It is case in some dialects. Same as "ä", which is pronounced "e" by 97% of population .
rotzi wrote:I'm trying to deliver other example sentences. Right now, I'm too uncreative.
Nameless wrote:"š" -> "shift", "ň" -> "new", "ž" -> "casual", "dž" -> "just"
rotzi wrote:
Here you go:
Nemáš ma tak formálne (formálňe) pozdraviť. / Nepotrebujeme tak formálne (formálne) pozdravy.
Aachie wrote:Actually, i/i and y/ý is one of the biggest problems of native Slovaks. As we only hear the words, we often dont know what i/y to put. There are actually many rules for this, but I dont know them all, since I guess i/y most of the time (and 90% its right ).
But I thought people who learn Slovak as a foreign language know better where to put i/y - as they learn the words themselves... I mean - they learn them from seeing unlike Slovaks, who learn words from hearing them only.
Anyways, I ´ll try to find the rules for writing i/y.
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