When Words Betray Your Ear:Dangerous-Sounding Finnish Words and the Slavic Trap of Hearing

Author’s Column by Tymur LevitinLevitin Language School / Start Language School by Tymur LevitinGlobal Learning. Personal Approach. Before we understand a foreign language, we hear it.And long before we analyse a word, we react to it. This reaction is not intellectual.It is instinctive, emotional, cultural. For speakers of Slavic languages — Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian — […]