That's interesting about your mother and her code-switching.
Pronunciation is pretty easy for me. I'm very good at learning pronunciations. Part of that is I'm good at repeating what I've heard even if I don't know how it's written. I can sing along in a number of languages with no problem once I've listened to the song enough times. It's more difficult if I'm looking at lyrics in the original language while singing. Polish and French are notorious for that problem. Polish is overly fond of consonants and French can't seem to leave vowels alone and then you don't pronounce most of them and some consonants too.
One funny thing I always think of when I see or say "suitable" is my comparatively literature professor I had while studying abroad in Sicily. She taught us in English, but naturally she was Italian. She would pronounce "suitable" like it was "suite + able", so "sweetable". I think about that every single time I encounter "suitable". Another issue of English right there; too many words being spelled the same or almost the same and then pronounced differently.
With my fics, HP ones are always long WIPs that I'm not likely to finish. The shorter ones I've posted are in different fandoms, because it's easier to keep them pretty short.
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Pronunciation is pretty easy for me. I'm very good at learning pronunciations. Part of that is I'm good at repeating what I've heard even if I don't know how it's written. I can sing along in a number of languages with no problem once I've listened to the song enough times. It's more difficult if I'm looking at lyrics in the original language while singing. Polish and French are notorious for that problem. Polish is overly fond of consonants and French can't seem to leave vowels alone and then you don't pronounce most of them and some consonants too.
One funny thing I always think of when I see or say "suitable" is my comparatively literature professor I had while studying abroad in Sicily. She taught us in English, but naturally she was Italian. She would pronounce "suitable" like it was "suite + able", so "sweetable". I think about that every single time I encounter "suitable". Another issue of English right there; too many words being spelled the same or almost the same and then pronounced differently.
With my fics, HP ones are always long WIPs that I'm not likely to finish. The shorter ones I've posted are in different fandoms, because it's easier to keep them pretty short.