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To: Mogger

English is a horrible language to try to learn. Nothing to do with “white supremacy”.

I always thought of Chinese being a difficult language to learn. Being character based instead of phonetic, one has to learn thousands of characters to read the language. Then to ice the cake, pronunciation is based on tone, so depending on how you say a sound, the meaning can be four completely different words.


29 posted on 12/06/2022 12:10:42 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: Flick Lives
Then to ice the cake, pronunciation is based on tone

Everything you're saying is from the parochial standpoint of an Anglophone.

For a Chinese, English is difficult precisely because it lacks tone.

Regards,

66 posted on 12/06/2022 6:00:08 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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