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france-eesti wrote:[flag=]et[/flag] Gave up Estonian because of the Partitive case
but I'll be back!!!!!
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Luís wrote:france-eesti wrote:[flag=]et[/flag] Gave up Estonian because of the Partitive case
but I'll be back!!!!!
(for you [flag=]et[/flag])
Why the partitive in particular?
vijayjohn wrote:Come on, kanji have WAY more pronunciations in Japanese than in Mandarin!
OldBoring wrote:From my experience, then it's not that Chinese characters have multiple readings (only few characters have them, and much fewer than Japanese!), but that Mandarin phonology is very difficult for a Japanese speaker, with all those consonants and vowels that don't exist in Japanese. A Japanese speakers also perceives Mandarin as varying a lot in "pitch accent".
OldBoring wrote:So vijayjohn was right that you meant tones. I think like every language, your pronunciation will not be perfect at first, and even with some pronunciation mistakes you can make yourself understood with the context. On the other hand, if your interest is only to be able to read and write Chinese, it's not necessary to learn the readings of all the characters. I've met a lot of Japanese students in China who just do fine with reading Chinese (because they already know kanji) even not knowing the pronunciation of half of the characters. Same goes for the Chinese trying to learn Japanese.
Luís wrote:German will probably have to go.
I keep on having to study it (for several reasons) over the years, but I'm always stuck at the A2-B1 level. I guess I just don't have the motivation. There are other languages out there that interest me much more. But then, German is actually useful. I know about the sunk-cost fallacy, but it's still hard to abandon yet another language...
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