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Re: Chinese writing systems

From:Jake X <alwaysawake247@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 1:06
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From: "Mat McVeagh" <matmcv@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: Chinese writing systems


> >From: Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> > > > >CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes: > > >Knowing how to pronounce a language doesn't necessarily imply you > > >understand it, after all. > > > > > >If that were true i'd be fluent in Tagalog by now :). > > Yeah if that was true I could speak about 20 languages :) > > Mat
My aunt reads Cyrillic correctly, without knowing a word of Russian as far as I know. Jake

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Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>Pronouncing a language without knowing it (jera: Chinese writing systems)