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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 15. October | 121 comments (121 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Pronunciation problem in Czech (none / 1)

Thanks a lot. That tells me precisely... ;-)

Czech is like Finnish with the stress always on the first syllable.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 06:38:51 AM EST
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Re: Pronunciation problem in Czech (none / 0)

And the relative of Finnish ,Hungarian, too. (Which made it hard for me to understand the concept of stress, for languages where its placement varied.)

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by DoDo on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 08:31:08 AM EST
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Re: Pronunciation problem in Czech (none / 0)

Helsinki is always a difficult stress to reprogram in visitors ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 09:20:05 AM EST
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Re: Pronunciation problem in Czech (none / 0)

Where do they try to set the accent? Second or last syllable?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 09:49:02 AM EST
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Re: Pronunciation problem in Czech (none / 1)

Brits do it on the second. I've heard some French put it on the last - Helsinkiii. Anecdotally, the Dutch are the best with Finnish words.

Though most visitors are confused by the fact that every letter is pronounced: if there is a double t you can hear the difference with a single t etc.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 10:40:43 AM EST
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