Ani wrote:Doesn't show for me
Oh no
it shows on my laptop (Mac & Firefox)
Ani wrote:Doesn't show for me
Ani wrote:Doesn't show for me
vogeltje wrote:Yes, Georgian is amazing, so pretty, but Cherokee looks nice as well. It's like Sinhala, which has got those Ꭳ type of letters (or they seem like that).
Some of the Cherokke letters, near the beginning of your screen shot look like the treble clef. I mean the 4th and 5th ones.
Shows up for me in Safari 9.1.3, FF 56.0.2, Mac OS 10.9.5.zenmonkey wrote:
Oh, and does it show up in the browser?
Here is my name written out in Cherokee:
ᎡᎤᎮᏂᎣ
zenmonkey wrote:vogeltje wrote:Yes, Georgian is amazing, so pretty, but Cherokee looks nice as well. It's like Sinhala, which has got those Ꭳ type of letters (or they seem like that).
Some of the Cherokke letters, near the beginning of your screen shot look like the treble clef. I mean the 4th and 5th ones.
Sinhala is a beautiful looking script, I haven't done any of the Gupta derived scripts yet but I'm doing the background on Tibetan (by learning it). Like Cherokee, each symbol tends to represent a consonant / vowel pairing. Except these Brahmic scripts tend to use diacritics, small markers for each vowel differentiation with the consonant marker - Cherokee uses a different symbol for each consonant vowel pairing.
zenmonkey wrote:...don't want to buy Wyner's guide because I'm not convinced of the value...
neuroascetic wrote:zenmonkey wrote:...don't want to buy Wyner's guide because I'm not convinced of the value...
I can understand not wanting to buy the guide, but I'll note that I found it useful for German. I didn't know any of the IPA alphabet at the time, so it may have taught me more than it would teach you. I've found the minimal pair exercises have tuned my ear in a way that would be hard for me to achieve on my own. I've had to do some of my own modifications to suit my flash card format preferences, but, overall, it improved my pronunciation tremendously. Of course, if you know which phonemes to seek for building your cards (I didn't), Wyner's deck is not needed. I credit it with helping me learn how to produce the German "r" (as someone who completely failed at being able to roll my tongue in Spanish, this was a satisfying achievement), but I'm sure if that was something I was determined to do, I could have found other resources that would have helped me with that sound.
I'm eager to hear about your criticisms of the other parts of the book. I feel like the book influenced me, however, I'm realizing that I actually don't use many flashcards that follow his model. And I was too far along for the 625 word list to be useful.
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