The Chinese phonemicsystem is complicated, only a few people can fully understand it.
语音系是个很复杂的系统,一般人很难弄懂。
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Though I don't have counts of their phonemic inventories to hand, it seems little wonder that Japanese, with a fairly simple sound system, was the fastest in the study, and Spanish was second.
These changes led to one of the major discrepancies between the phonemic representations of words and morphemes, that is, between the pronunciation and the spelling system of Modern English.