Also wouldn’t be a surprise if Cook had been quietly learning Mandarin for years to take advantage of opportunities like this.
@sprockethouse @marcoarment I live in Taiwan and completely agree with him…but then again, I'm not good at languages, so maybe you're right
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@monkbent@marcoarment Well, to be fair you’re also dealing with the traditional characters, as well. Mainland uses the simplified… -
@sprockethouse@marcoarment very true. Big difference in recall -
@monkbent Also worth pointing out difference between learning to read/write (very hard) and to speak/understand (much simpler)
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@monkbent But no verb tenses, articles, prepositions or gender? Hugely simplified, even if there is no alphabetThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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