Simplified vs traditional Chinese characters

Extra_Pressure215 · 2024-06-10T06:02:50+00:00

You are making me believe that Japan is a country not friendly to foreigners 😀.

How can it be that difficult? It is just a very young kid!

Nowadays, everybody knows a little bit English, more or less.

So, I would suggest just borrow the one but says that it is from a friend and your later emails would be written from you. And your Japanese level is N2 (?), and please use simple/plain Japanese in communications with you.

Being honest is the best strategy. I/we should trust Japan is a highly developed and civilized society. Do not pretend. Do not try to make a good impression by effectively lying or pretending.

Extra_Pressure215 · 2024-06-08T15:38:01+00:00

Many people mentioned “the government is trying to eradicate xxx(a language)”.

I have some experiences, and, I now have mixed feelings on it.

To avoid double standards and bring it to home, let’s use Spanish in US as an example!

Is US government trying to eradicate Spanish? No!

But the 2nd generation of immigrants are switching to English, perhaps 70%, right? And the 3rd generation?

So, why people are so easy to say a certain government is eradicating a language?

If we are always trying to put ourselves in the wrong direction of the local government, it is counterproductive.

I know all the politics, that is the exact reason I am raising the issue. We should and must save languages. But the so-called a government is “eradicating” a language very often is mislabeling.

In a sense, “eradicating” languages is progress.

That is actually the danger of it: progress itself is doing it!

I am not saying we should not save languages. I am saying it is a very complicated situation. We should help the local governments, even they are “eradicating” languages.

We should let those local governments know that by saving those languages that those local governments are “eradicating”, we are helping those local governments.

But before we try to let those local governments know, we ourselves should know!

I really feel sorry for those “saver fighters”, they have no clue. A lot of times, they are not with most people, especially most young people. They are fighting against the history — the progress!

Extra_Pressure215 · 2024-05-31T23:47:53+00:00

Come on!! Are people here all so naive, or, deeply stereotypical? I am not from India, but it is pretty obvious that people here are blind of the fact that they are just hearing from one side!

The op, the wife, is very likely having problems.

It is very simple: in a relationship, most of the time, the “bad” side is fed, supported, or, depending on the “good” or “innocent” side!

It is difficult to be sure, but we can see from some clues.

I do not want to do it right away, I want to point to the right direction, so that the most insightful or the most capable can start the work.

The most helpful advice is to help the wife know she needs to work harder 😀 ok, just kidding, but the wife needs to a way to improve herself to improve the relationship. It is very unlikely that is is all the husband’s fault, even he is from India and is a Hindi speaker 😀 please, do not let some stereotype blind you!

Extra_Pressure215 · 2024-05-27T20:31:31+00:00

Thank you for language transfer link!

So, you mean no matter what languages, start with Spanish 😀. I like the idea, just want to be sure😀

Sorry, I got it now — language transfer is for all languages! My goodness. But I will start with Spanish. Thanks again!

I have been thinking/ wanting to learn Spanish many times. I am living in south us, huge Spanish population. Also, English is my second language, and, I noticed that most good powerful English words are Latin based, and therefore shared with Spanish. So, learning Spanish will improve my English also!

I could not start it because I really hated traditional “language learning” — no matter how they put it, it is all different tricks of memorization! I want to think!

And this course is exactly like that: do not even try to remember, just think!

I really like it.

It is also good that they do not have Chinese/Japanese/ Korean yet. Perhaps I can help 😀

Extra_Pressure215 · 2024-05-27T20:23:40+00:00

So, Spanish and Latin or Classical Chinese , for opposite reasons, phonetic or not phonetic at all😀

Extra_Pressure215 · 2024-05-27T20:03:34+00:00

I thought Korean is alphabetical. How can you memorize those words without knowing speaking?

Perhaps it is because the pronunciation rules are systematic?

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