Mari wrote:
>Last year we went to Madrid (to visit the fair!). Other people in Holland
>told us that is was impossible to communicate with some people in Spain. We
>didn't believe this at all.
>
>Sure there are some languages difficulties, but why don't we use hand and
>feet to make sure that people can understand us. Sometimes the knowledge of
>English is very poor, but I'm sure everybody can try to use some foreign
>words to get it clear... (after I few days in Spain, it was possible to
>recognize several words in a sentence and with that to understand what they
>were talking about in Spanish!).
>
>Therefore I think that when people say that he could not communicate, you
>haven't put enough effort in it TO COMMUNICATE.
Spanish and English/Dutch are all European languages and in some way
relative (influences of Latin and Greek) so I can very well understand that
it's possible to recognize words. I, myself, can understand written Spanish
to an acceptable extent, even though I never studied a word of Spanish (I
did have to learn French at school, though). Japanese and English, however,
are very different languages. Japanese is an Altaic language (like Korean,
Turkish), or, to go in short, an oriental language. What I want to say is:
you can't compare these languages at all.
By the way, Ikeda really DID efforts to communicate with the people of
Sunrise mentioned, but perhaps their interest wasn't enough to have them
take any effort in communicating.
Rieks.
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