On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:15:41 -0700 (Subject: RE: [VOTE-RESULT] Aaron Farr as a committer on Avalon) "Farr, Aaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally I think the real difficulty in Chinese lies in literacy. > Learning Chinese characters is mostly just a matter of brute memorization > and it's a huge task. It's not like you can easily sound out an unfamiliar > character. I think so. Kanji (Chinese Character in japanese) have over one million characters, too. (Of course, we can not memorize all of them in our *poor* brain... around ten thousands or thereabouts) Chinese grammer is alike to the westerns' ones. Japanese is completely different. Note/Digression: The difference between eastern and western cultures is, IMO, the weight of "Read/Write" and "Listen/Speak". Eastern culture take care of the importance of "Read/Write" *more* than that of "Listen/Speak". I think this is derived from the *fact* that all the chinese-oriented cultures have/had Chinese Characters. Sincerely, -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
