Comment on Giant flywheel project in Scotland could prevent UK blackoutsparentComments−rbanffy6yAnd people say Hungarian is hard...−twic6yIt looks wild, but the pronunciation is very regular:https://wikitravel.org/en/Welsh_phrasebookOr rather, the orthography is - spoken Welsh is ancient, but the way of writing it with Latin letters is relatively new, so it was worked out fairly sensibly.The actual grammar is headache-inducing, though.−_sbrk6yLol. Reminds me of The Crown where Price Charles is learning Welsh.However, at least all the letters are familiar. Asian languages are at least an order of magnitude harder for westerners.−rbanffy6yIn Irish, at least, the letters being familiar doesn't help when they sound totally different.When I moved here, I arrogantly stated I was going to learn Irish. I'm humbled now.
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And people say Hungarian is hard...
It looks wild, but the pronunciation is very regular:
https://wikitravel.org/en/Welsh_phrasebook
Or rather, the orthography is - spoken Welsh is ancient, but the way of writing it with Latin letters is relatively new, so it was worked out fairly sensibly.
The actual grammar is headache-inducing, though.
Lol. Reminds me of The Crown where Price Charles is learning Welsh.
However, at least all the letters are familiar. Asian languages are at least an order of magnitude harder for westerners.
In Irish, at least, the letters being familiar doesn't help when they sound totally different.
When I moved here, I arrogantly stated I was going to learn Irish. I'm humbled now.