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Re:The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Transla... by torstenvl on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @11:25AM (#17653921)

I'm struggling to think of minimal pairs that are particularly difficult. Maybe those involving liquids, for East Asian learners?

French's minimal pairs involving [u] vs. [y] are terrible. Beaucoup vs. beau cul, au dessous vs. au dessus, etc.

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Re:The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Transla... by sametmax on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:23PM (#17655075)

French, all in all, is a terrible language for ease of communication.

Don't get me wrong. It's a great language to write a novel in. Make an argument. Describe a country side.

But it's slow, convoluted and error prone.

All languages have weird stuff. Even English, while being incredibly easy, have many quirks, like in the joke: "Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

But french is more about learning exceptions among a few rules.

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