Re: Rating Languages
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 23, 2001, 10:55 |
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BPJ wrote:
>At 08:46 2001-09-22 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
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>>On
>>the other hand, if you can't memorize a few thousand characters
>>and are tone-deaf, then Chinese must be hard.
>
>Just a thought: do tone-deaf people have a handicap in societies speaking a
>tone-language? Then again maybe not. I'm pretty tone-deaf myself, and I
>manage the two Swedish word-tones...
Same here - I have trouble hearing any difference between the tones, but I
evidently use them correctly as nobody's ever complained.
Andreas
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