{"id":312,"date":"2007-03-02T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/02\/joy-of-phomenes\/"},"modified":"2007-03-02T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T19:07:00","slug":"joy-of-phonemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"The joy of phonemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/scotland\/alba\/\">Scottish Gaelic radio<\/a> all day today. I don&#8217;t understand a lot yet, though can get the gist if I concentrate. As I listen, I often repeat some of the words and phrases I&#8217;m hearing &#8211; it&#8217;s a good thing I work at home most of the time, or my colleagues might begin to doubt my sanity. I really like the sound of Scottish Gaelic and enjoy trying to speak it.<\/p>\n<p>Tha mi ag \u00e8isdeachd ri Raidio nan Gaidheal fad an l\u00e0 an-diugh. Chan eil mi &#8216;tuigsinn m\u00f2ran fhathast, ach tha mi a&#8217; tuigsinn an bhr\u00ecgh ma tha mi ag \u00e8isdeachd gu c\u00f9ramach. Tha c\u00f2rd m\u00f2r rium G\u00e0idhlig a&#8217; bruidhinn.<\/p>\n<p>For me, one of the joys of learning foreign languages is getting my tongue round their unfamiliar phonemes. Each language presents me with a different set of phonetic challenges, some of which are more challenging than others. At the moment, for example, I&#8217;m having fun wrestling with some pesky Czech consonant clusters.<\/p>\n<p>Which languages do you most enjoy pronouncing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to Scottish Gaelic radio all day today. I don&#8217;t understand a lot yet, though can get the gist if I concentrate. As I listen, I often repeat some of the words and phrases I&#8217;m hearing &#8211; it&#8217;s a good thing I work at home most of the time, or my colleagues might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,42,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning","category-pronunciation","category-scottish-gaelic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}