gtranger

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   by gtranger 2y ago

   Anecdotally speaking, my spouse is from China and she thinks it was easier for her to learn Japanese than English despite learning English from a young age and not having any formal Japanese education until college by which point she was al
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   by gtranger 2y ago

   The fact that it is a well-documented language that has evolved over thousands of years with almost no external influence and is entrenched with thousands of years of cultural concepts that are distinctly unfamiliar to a majority of the wes
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   by gtranger 2y ago

   I’m extremely skeptical of your claims that you learned Chinese grammar in a week as a Chinese learner myself and I’m willing to bet you don’t realize how much you don’t know. The Chinese grammar wiki has 505 articles on grammar split acros
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   by gtranger 2y ago

   It's worth noting that the aforementioned list is the unified pronunciation list that was published in 1985 by the Ministry of Education. The reason why you see some words only having a single (unified) reading in that list is due to t
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   by gtranger 2y ago

   While not as egregious as Japanese where characters can have 15+ readings, the number of exceptions certainly are not few. Below is a link to the official table of words with multiple pronunciations in standard Mandarin. https://