>C'mon, Russian is phonetical enough, you know the spelling when you hear the word.
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Don't kid me :) Try to spell "akkompanement" correctly in Russian. That was one of the words in my husband's article which I had to look in the dictionary.

>But I find another problem: when trying to translate into my language, I can't remember the best words like I once did.

I have the same problem. I was trying to explain my son what does "Synonym" mean and could not think of good examples in either language.