Monday, December 2, 2019

Jen Mia Respondo

And God said:  (Let it be) light, and was made light.
Kaj Dio diris: Estu lumo; kaj fariĝis lumo.
keye DEE-o  DEER-ees  Est-oo  LOO-mo  keye far-EEJ-ees LOO-mo

And God saw the light, that it is good
Kaj Dio vidis la lumon, ke ĝi estas bona;
keye DEE-o VEED-ees la LOO-mon  ke jee EST-as BO-na

and God parted the light from the darkness
kaj Dio apartigis la lumon de la mallumo.
keye DEE-o ap-ar-TEE-gees la LOO-mon de la mal-LOO-mo

And God named the light day,
Kaj Dio nomis la lumon Tago,
kaj DEE-o NO-mees la LOO-mon TA-go

and the darnkess, he named night.
kaj la mallumon Li nomis Nokto.
keye  la  mal-LOO-mon  Lee  NO-mis  NOK-TO

And it was night, and it was day, one day.
Kaj estis vespero, kaj estis mateno, unu tago.
keye EST-ees ves-PER-o  keye ES-tees ma-TE-no, OON-oo TAG-o

Note:  Double letters in Esperanto are both pronounced with the vowel they're associated with.  Double letters always or almost always, no, I'm pretty sure are always a result of word roots and grammatical prefixes or endings coming together. Unlike in English, those word particles are always spelled the same way so you don't have to wonder about things like dropping "e"s or keeping them in.  Once you know how something is pronounced, you'll know for certain how it's spelled.

Here's a more complete written out guide to pronunciation for English speaking Americans, there are all kinds of guides for other English speaking countries and other languages all over the place online, as well as a huge number of very good recorded examples of the language being spoken.

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