>>13685193effort. xenoglossia is simpler when you're only repeating words off a page, than when you're trying to communicate with someone else.
>>13686841and moreover, the one upshot of coming from english to another language in terms of pronunciation is that you're working from the idea that there's more than one way to sound out what you're looking at, because english just loves to have a crapload of contextual sounds for every letter to compensate for it's tendency to pick up loanwords like a meth addict stealing loose change out of people's pockets - japanese in particular comes with the idea that each syllable has only one way to be pronounced, give or take some dropped "U"s, which both simplifies that aspect from an outside perspective, and makes less rigid systems considerably harder from an inside perspective.
