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Re: Rating Languages

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Sunday, September 23, 2001, 10:55
BPJ wrote:
>At 08:46 2001-09-22 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > >>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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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