So true! English orthography, unlike German orthography, is a terrible indicator of how words are actually pronounced. All the assimilation and elision that happens in native speech totally goes under (i.e. pronouncing bizness instead of bus-i-ness). I misspell English words all the time but almost never make a mistake in German (at least when it comes to spelling, sometimes I get noun gender and thus endings and articles wrong because when I started learning German I had no frame of reference for understanding how absolutely vital it is to learn noun gender as a German learner). Pacific Ocean! 🌊 C C C 💫 #englishpronunciation #learnenglish #englishforgermans #learngerman #languagelearning #linguistics #grammarnerd #languagelover
