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Re:The enigmatic Portuguese R (2013)
on Friday January 14, 2022 @10:31AM (#29935665)
Similarly and for the same reasons, they have a lot of trouble combining the Spanish R with the Spanish G or J sound. Spanish words such as "jarra," "Jorge," or "rojo" tend to be very difficult even for Lusophones who are advanced Spanish speakers. But I agree that Portuguese is a lot more phonetically complex than most (if not all) Western European languages.
Re:Google outage – resolved
on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:35AM (#25416688)
Seems to be back up (Europe/NL).
Re:Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds with Schools A...
on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @02:48AM (#11334804)
It gets even worse. Harvard Housing charges students "market rates" [0], i.e. they don't even subsidize what they are not paying in taxes off their own students' rent.
[0] http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/01/harvard-housin...
Re:The Unsuitability of English (2015)
on Sunday February 21, 2016 @09:20PM (#11147979)
> I don't think conjugation is such a problem. I'm learning Spanish at the moment and learning the various endings is actually quite easy.
Did you get to Subjuntivo or Pretérito vs. Imperfecto yet? Unless you already speak Portuguese or Italian, that's when the verbs get tricky :)