Z. The end of the alphabet and the end of this ‘A–Z of pronunciation‘ blog. There’s a lot more to say, of course, and a lot that could be dealt with in greater depth, but the blog has handsomely fulfilled it’s initial purpose, which was to give my life some sort of structure and direction […]
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Variation, the way that speakers of the same language use it in often quite different ways, is a wholly natural, entirely unavoidable phenomenon. In fact, without variation languages wouldn’t actually serve their speakers’ needs. Living here in Northern Spain, what I need from Spanish is not the same as the needs of speakers in the […]
Take a look at this photo. It’s the first letter of a four-letter word. I saw it in the street in Madrid so it’s in Spanish. However, the word in question is spelt the same way in English. The question is, which letter is it? Now go to the bottom of this post and take a […]
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