Why does J have to have a ДЖ sound in English. It causes so much confusion. Like a Polish person I know called Janek (Янєк), get's called Джанэк all the time here in England.
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Why does J have to have a ДЖ sound in English. It causes so much confusion. Like a Polish person I know called Janek (Янєк), get's called Джанэк all the time here in England.
[quote=challenger][quote=TATY][quote=chaika]taty, only in writing is it between a vowel and a consonant. In phonemic form there is a semiconsonant /j/ between the letter-vowels:
/čit
[quote=chaika]taty, only in writing is it between a vowel and a consonant. In phonemic form there is a semiconsonant /j/ between the letter-vowels:
/čit
I'd say in Читает it is je and not ji. It is between a VOWEL and a consonant, not two consonants.
[quote=chaika]unstressed e is in standard language /i/ when it occurs between two palatalized consonants. This phenomenon is called и
Ιsn't Маме the prep. and dat. of Мама?
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