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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The bad news is that you sound terrible when you don't get the tones right, even when you are understood. I think this has to be considered a problem with learning Chinese.
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That's a good thing to remember for the next "scare some one in four words" Twitter challenge. New tone just dropped.
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