• jarfil@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have the opposite happen to me with Chinese, like I know 危高电压 means “danger high electric pressure (voltage)”, but have no idea how to sound it out. Dysfunctional literacy? 😄

    • Gabu@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Haha, I think that’s usually just called “learning a language from books”. My magyar (Hungarian) suffers from a similar issue.