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To take a few examples from your comment: "Definitely" has 19 "strokes" "Speaker" has 14 strokes "Visual" has 10 strokes "Made" has 9 strokes 9 strokes is
by supportlocal4h 8y ago
To take a few examples from your comment:
"Definitely" has 19 "strokes"
"Speaker" has 14 strokes
"Visual" has 10 strokes
"Made" has 9 strokes
9 strokes is a lot in Chinese, but relatively few in English. And despite what anyone says, you can't learn English using phonics or any other method except bulk memorization. In English, every word and every one of its derivatives has to be memorized. Past tense, possessive, plural, everything has to be memorized. Nobody bats an eye at this. Learning 8 strokes for "tree" is easy, but the 4 strokes for the Chinese equivalent is hard. 12 strokes for "water" is easy. 5 strokes in Chinese is hard. Oh, and throw on 4 more strokes in English if you turn it into a verb and use the past tense, "watered". Unless you write "did water" instead and split them up with a noun in between: "did you water". What a disaster.
I am a native English speaker. I like to think I am decent at it. Better than most of the people with whom I speak in person. But did I just use "whom" correctly? And did I just start a sentence with "but"? And "and"? And leave out the subject? Is this even proper English?