>>>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
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>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.

Not really any language. French works reasonably well - one way

The advantage of Spanish is that there's a rule that tells you which syllabe has the emphasis in a word. If anything does not follow the rule an accent is put on the vowel of the syllabe that has the emphasis.

Also, Spanish has no 'long' or 'short' vowels - like the o in monitor and open