Re: Language Difficulty

Hi!

D Tse <exponent@...> writes:
> I have tried to teach an off-list conlanger in real life a few phrases of my
> native language, Cantonese, but it's the tones that mess people up. It's
> always the tones that mess people up :P
Bu2 shi4.  (Sorry, only Mandarin, no Cantonese)

I found the tones in Mandarin complicated, but not the ultimate
problem.  I sometimes even noticed to have applied the tone sandhi
rules without thinking about them (yi1, yi2 or yi4; bu2 or bu4; third
tone regular sandhi rule). :-)

But I simply love phonology!  And I love Arabic sounds! :-)))

What's definitely hard for me with Chinese is its writing.  And the
syntax that seems easy but seemingly cannot be described with
rules. :-)

**Henrik

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