Whilst you’re at it you may as well discover that Japanese doesn’t have one, even two, but three alphabets! Find out more about the three Japanese Alphabets here. Russian is also a fascinating language to learn and can cause confusion with English learners given that P, H and C represe...
why does english have capital letters? i wonder why english has capital letters? as a non native english speaker, i could not understand the logic behind it. it also increases key strokes on typewriters, computers, and makes it difficult for non natives. i am sure that if puritans of engli...
my favortie is "i am Japanese so i can`t speak English" yet there may be 5 or 6 or more Japanese people around them speaking more than acceptable English. what does he say about himself (usually a him) and what does he mean about the people around him that are Japanese and speaking...
I find it most logical to spend the effort on the most dominant languages in different language families. If one is fluent in Spanish it is very easy to later add French, Italian, Portuguese, Latin etc. If one is fluent in Mandarin it is easy to add Japanese and other tonal languages. ...
(mile) to a single character 里 results in the loss of distinction between the two totally-unrelated words. Some may argue that this ambiguity is resolved when the word occurs in the context of the sentence. However, this argument only holds true if the character does occur in a full an...
Whilst you’re at it you may as well discover that Japanese doesn’t have one, even two, but three alphabets! Find out more about the three Japanese Alphabets here. Russian is also a fascinating language to learn and can cause confusion with English learners given that P, H and C represe...