Re:Kató Lomb
by thraway-burnout on Friday February 22, 2019 @06:42AM
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> 'Je sais' may look very different to 'yo sé', but (in some spanish-speaking regions at least) they're pronounced almost identically.
I speak French natively and Spanish fluently. I also listen to a fair amount of Reggeaton, which is quite often in Spanish spoken with a Puerto Rico accent.
I always find it interesting how the Puerto Rican pronunciation of "Yo soy" sounds so very close to the southern French pronunciation of "Je suis".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syGLsyTQwW4
"Si tu eres un caballo, je suis el dueño del hipódromo"
Ah, fascinating. They're both surprisingly similar, since I guess the spoken language evolves not just differently but faster than the written. (I don't think I even knew that Latin continuously evolved into today's Romance languages until I read about the history of spanish..) My colombian friends got me into reggaeton - I'd love some more links to your favourites please! Thanks :-)
[0] Well, maybe not - getting on top of one Romance verb system was enough, it seemed soooo weird and complicated in the beginning. Although I'm still a novice at using the subjunctive.