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"A GUI is earier to deal with than an unresponsive terminal just Spanish is easier to learn than Chinese." I don't think you're making the point you want to he
by ekiru 16y ago
"A GUI is earier to deal with than an unresponsive terminal just Spanish is easier to learn than Chinese."
I don't think you're making the point you want to here.
Spanish is easier to learn than Chinese for English speakers, certainly, but it's not inherently more intuitive than Chinese. Spanish is easier to learn for English speakers because it is more similar to what they have already become familiar to. For a speaker of Japanese, Chinese is probably easier to learn than Spanish.
- Herring 16y agoChinese is difficult for speakers of chinese. They spend a long time drilling the letters.
- prakashk 16y agoThe GP wasn't talking about complexities of Spanish and Chinese for native speakers, but for speakers of other similar languages. Presumably, Chinese is easier to learn for Japanese speakers for the same reasons of similarity and familiarity that speakers of English have towards Spanish. If Chinese is inherently difficult, perhaps the Japanese could cope with it better than English speakers, as they had already gone through the rigors of learning Japanese, a language with similar (if not the same) level of difficulty. I could be reading too much into it, of course :)