Japanese voicing, and learning Mandarin and Portuguese (was Re: Keyboards)

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:12:20 -0500, Philip Newton
<philip.newton@...> wrote:

> On 1/11/06, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
>> What have I not learned about etymological compounds in Japanese, btw?
>> Why
>> is it "hiragana" and "furigana" with a "ga", but "katakana" with a "ka"?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku
>
That link really raises more questions than it answers, but thanks for it
anyway. It'll give me a decent place to start learning and investigating.

While I'm on the subject of learning, I need to learn at least the
rudiments of both Portuguese (Brasil) and Mandarin as quickly as possible,
for a contract I might end up working on. Right now, I have a fair handle
on the phoneme inventories of both languages, and something of their
typology. I have access to Pimsleurs for both languages, and to Henrik's
excellent flashcard site (which gets better each time I check it), but do
any of you know any other free (preferably) online resources?




Paul

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