I will actually co-sign this, and it’s a lot more tolerable in writing than in a conversational context. It’s a different kind of Lego than Chinese grammar and it sticks together in different ways, but it’s manageably modular.
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Replying to @samuel_wade @isaiahmschrader
I’m not in the habit of saying anything positive about Japanese, or at least not without immediately qualifying it with something really damning.
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As someone who came from Japanese to Chinese, I can say the work that goes into expressing the same thought as a non-native speaker is far smaller for the latter because you're not under the same pressure to try and tailor every aspect of each sentence to an exact situation.
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“Wait, is the person I’m talking to better than me, or worse?”
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Replying to @Pinboard @KangHexin and
Unironically, yes! Chinese is just not that hard!
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For real though it's babytimes easy if you put in the time. Japanese is a whole 'nother beast.
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Replying to @Pinboard @KangHexin and
The good news about tones is that everyone learns them wrong the first time and then you can bond over it later.
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There's also always a harder tonal language to study, to make you grateful for what you have.
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Replying to @Pinboard @KangHexin and
Don’t make me tap the Taiwanese tone sandhi chart again
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