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To: Cronos

With Chinese, it is like learning two languages-— the abc one and the characters. It is one fascinating language, and although I’m not at all
fluent, I’m understood. I do a practice session, and get lost in the etymology of a character. I just love this language!!!!!!!


28 posted on 05/31/2015 8:38:37 PM PDT by Exit148 ((Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: Exit148
But, how do you THINK in it?

for me it was interesting changing my mental gymnastics from S-V-O to using declensions and putting the verb at the end

But to me the Chinese way of conversing "me house to go" -- seems like a different way of thinking. How do you do it?

56 posted on 06/01/2015 2:32:43 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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