Re: R: Re: "y" and "r"

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Mangiat wrote:

> Italian hasn't an established standard, as well. Besides different dialects
> and languages spoken in the peninsula (the Etnologue lists about 30
> different languages), there is also in the way one pronounces the national
> language great difference between this and that region, or even between this
> and that town within the same region. The most troublesome problem is the
> realization of the infamous couplets /e/ - /E/ and /o/ - /O/.
Hmm.  So when you take Italian as a foreign language, say in the U.S. or
Britain or elsewhere, what kind do they teach you, and more importantly,
do they *tell* you which kind they're teaching you?  :-)

YHL, looking somewhat despairingly at her book on Italian, which she
isn't touching until she gets through this semester of Latin, and
wondering if she should settle for being able to read and write but not
speak, someday