>>Thank you very much. What would be the difference in pronunciation between "connais" and "connai"?
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>It's like the difference in pronounciation between the futur tense and the conditional tense
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>Je partirai (I will leave)
>Je partirais (I would leave)
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>That said, "je sais" is pronounced both ways
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>The advantage of Spanish is that when you see a word you know how to pronounce it, whereas in other languages you do not

Actually, that's the advantage of almost any language I know of, except English. French, from what I heard, works one way - you know how to pronounce it, but several ways to write the same thing.