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WCT May 3-7, 2010 (1656-1660)

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Tuitsuro:

--- Quote from: Binary on 10 May 2010, 16:51 ---WHALE OIL BEEF HOOKED

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Ah, that took me a minute. :lol:

Kugai:

--- Quote from: Tuitsuro on 11 May 2010, 20:46 ---
--- Quote from: Binary on 10 May 2010, 16:51 ---WHALE OIL BEEF HOOKED

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Ah, that took me a minute. :lol:

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Me too.  :laugh:

And as the Upper Class English say,  AIR HAIR LAIR

ecstaticjoy:
yes, yes, yes <33333333333

Akima:

--- Quote from: Lyrical on 10 May 2010, 21:00 ---From what I understand, the tonal languages, such as Japanese and Chinese, tend to be the most difficult to learn to speak correctly.
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Technically Japanese is not a tonal language, unlike Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai etc.

Obviously I'm not the best person to ask about the difficulty of learning Chinese (usually Standard Mandarin) as a second language. It is classed as one of the most difficult for English-speakers to learn, but I'm not sure that it is the tones that give most trouble. The CSL people I've talked to found the tones simply came with practice, and Mandarin grammar is in many ways far simpler than English. It is the writing system that seemed to be the big hurdle... as it is to Chinese people too! I sometimes wonder if the fearsome reputation of Chinese is partly an artifact of a general foreign-language teaching tradition that over-emphasises written language because it is easy to test.

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