>>The way we learned to count syllables was "count the vowels". Or, if you're not sure, try to sing the word, one syllable - one note. Including the funny cases where the song requires the singer to extend the r-as-vowel (which actually happens quite often - drvo (tree), srce (heart), prvi (first), rđa (rust)... and, surprise surprise, Hrvatska (Croatia) and Srbija (Serbia) :).
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>You wouldn't have to if you didn't loose vowels in those words in the first place. :)
>In Russian: derevo, serdce, perviy, ruda.
Sergey
Don't you mean "lose vowels". Loose vowels is when someone has verbal diarrhoea :-)
Terry
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.