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YpaYv!4" (imageofz let me correct a tiny mistake: "with a new alphabet" .. Ypaw!). What happened here is that "imageofz" failed to change the orthograph of the adjective nouveau (new) into nouvel (new) before placing it in front of the word alphabet (alphabet), which starts with a vowel sound. This change is grammatically required when a word ending with a vowel is placed in front of a word beginning with another vowel. This is to facilitate the "liaison" or the flow when pronouncing the two words back to back. The last message on this discussion excerpt (Message 7) is from skirlet, replying to an earlier message from imageofz (Message 5); regarding the use of a familiar orthograph to write the sound of a language that uses an alphabet other than the one in the student native language, which she refers to as "phonetic writing." Citing her own case, skirlet, who is a native Russian speaker, was explaining to imageofz that she had to first use Russian alphabet to write French sounds, which was made extremely difficult by the combination of letters as well as by the presence of silent letters in French. This technique worked well for him/her while learning French with a Russian background just as the same technique worked well in reverse for imageofz while learning Russian from an English background. Even though imageofz contributed only two messages to the present discussion thread, his contribution seems to have led to some really strong discussions with a very nice flow to them, contrarily to the somewhat standstill experience from the previous project participant (Trey) who abandoned his participation in the forum after failing to make himself understandable a couple of times to the rest of the participants. Nonetheless, it is less apparent why imageofz, while he should have been greatly
