vijayjohn wrote:That's my understanding of it, yes (though probably eskandar or Saim or someone like that would know better than me ).
Okay thank you Vijay!
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vijayjohn wrote:That's my understanding of it, yes (though probably eskandar or Saim or someone like that would know better than me ).
Meera wrote:Oh and she is trying to organize a trip to a Japanese bookstore in New York!!
Yasna wrote:Meera wrote:Oh and she is trying to organize a trip to a Japanese bookstore in New York!!
Save up for that trip. My wallet is always significantly lighter after I leave there...
Meera wrote:I will! Which price range are the books there about?
Yasna wrote:Meera wrote:I will! Which price range are the books there about?
There's quite a range at Kinokuniya. Some small paperback novels or manga volumes might cost only 7 dollars, but the newest hardcover stuff might be around 25 dollars. I'll bet they have some great stuff for learners too, but I didn't discover the store until after I was past that stage so I haven't checked. And then there are some really nice art books for animes and video games that can be up to 50 dollars. There was a Zelda art book I really wanted, but I couldn't bring myself to spend 50 dollars on it and then it went out of print... There is also a nice cafe on the second floor which you will want to check out.
Btw, I don't know if you are a cat person, but another Japan-themed thing to do in NYC is cat cafes. I went to Koneko last time and would recommend it to any cat lover.
Meera wrote:I'm trying to learn the script and I know it is simple but it is taking me a long time.
vijayjohn wrote:Meera wrote:I'm trying to learn the script and I know it is simple but it is taking me a long time.
It's okay. It took me a long time, too.
vijayjohn wrote:I think the only script that hasn't taken me a long time to learn is Cyrillic, and that's only if we count being able to read the letters in print, plus it's not that different from Roman script.
Osias wrote:Unilang is the only place I know an American talking to an Indian (or Indian American, I don't know) about Russian language drops a word from German in the middle of a sentence out of the blue.
vijayjohn wrote:Scripts take a long time to learn just in general IME. I think the only script that hasn't taken me a long time to learn is Cyrillic, and that's only if we count being able to read the letters in print, plus it's not that different from Roman script.
Actually, the only times it's been really easy for me to learn a script are when I kind of know it already. You know, like learning how to read Urdu when you already know how to read Arabic and Persian.
Meera wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Scripts take a long time to learn just in general IME. I think the only script that hasn't taken me a long time to learn is Cyrillic, and that's only if we count being able to read the letters in print, plus it's not that different from Roman script.
Actually, the only times it's been really easy for me to learn a script are when I kind of know it already. You know, like learning how to read Urdu when you already know how to read Arabic and Persian.
Yeah that's true or if the scripts are extremely similar, like going from Devanagari to Gurmukhi is really easy.
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