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	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... liosama Wrote:kfmfe04 Wrote:http://www.language-learning-advisor.com...other.html . This link pretty much kills the whole point of this (stupid) thread. Although he is wrong in some parts (i.e hanzi n...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-06, 11:25 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... wccrawford Wrote:Well it's Fabrice's board and he can do whatever he wants. Since I've been here, he's always removed posts or banned people for 1 thing: Disturbing the board to a high degree. If y...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-06, 6:55 am
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... HerrPetersen Wrote:Calm down, Tak47. The whole discussion is not really worth the emotion put into it. Chinese and Japanese are both hard to learn languages. Which one takes the cup, is for everyone t...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-06, 6:17 am
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... theasianpleaser Wrote:I know recently Kazelee had an epiffany about the uses of 「やっぱり」, but Barney Rubble, I'm just lost on that one. It's Cockney; Barney Rubble = trouble.	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-05, 8:03 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Jarvik7 Wrote:Tak's entire tirade seems to be in defense of "the dignity of the Chinese language" and nothing directly linguistic in nature. People are misinterpreting the graphs on that site by the ...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-05, 7:55 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... kazelee Wrote:Tak47 Wrote:What do you mean you cannot study grammar systematically? That is what sentence mining and the SRS are for! Of course you can learn it systematically! What make it any differ...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-05, 6:54 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... kfmfe04 Wrote:This is interesting: http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/...s-japanese Don't know how much credit you want to put into his graphs, but they are interesting, nonetheless. I posted t...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-05, 6:07 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... JimmySeal Wrote:Tak47 Wrote:The HSK Advanced is the equivalent of the JLPT 1, but for Mandarin. Once you pass one of these, you have reached fluency in the language. As someone who passed JLPT1 a whil...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-05, 3:38 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... kfmfe04 Wrote:iSoron Wrote:足下「あしもと」, by the way. Ack! Of course I know that one, but couldn't think of how 下 is used as もと。Thanks! Tak47, how many assumptions are embedded in your comparison? 1. An...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-05, 6:49 am
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... kfmfe04 Wrote:Doh! I wouldn't quote those JLPT hours if I were you... I think they may be off by a factor of 2-3 or more... (this is well known amongst students who have actually spent the time an...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-05, 5:59 am
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Tobberoth Wrote:And I found Japanese pronunciation very easy while I find Mandarin pronunciation harder. Still not harder than I found Japanese grammar, not even close. That's fine, different people f...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-05, 5:00 am
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Serge Wrote:How is bringing a totally different language (文言) into this discussion relevant?! And if it is relevant because of the literary heritage and occasional modern usage, why has no one mention...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-04, 9:59 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... kazelee Wrote:Finally some new information. You forgot Japanese's crazy compound frenzy, though. That gives it a slight nudge in the more difficult direction. At least 90% of the words in modern Manda...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-04, 9:16 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Tobberoth Wrote:Reaching fluency in Japanese impossible? Hardly. I'm just saying it's harder to become fluent in Japanese than in Mandarin. I'm also saying that one can start being creative with manda...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-04, 8:03 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Tobberoth Wrote:But it's different and I explained why. Hanzi is a bigger hurdle in Chinese than in Japanese because you need to know more, that's the common argument. Using Heisig-like techniques cou...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-04, 7:19 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Tobberoth Wrote:Then why do I find Korean much harder to learn than Mandarin? I'm sorry, but I don't see the connections you're making. And besides, even if I find Mandarin very easy because I alread...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-04, 6:59 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Tobberoth Wrote:Tak47 Wrote:文言 is not a novel, it is the Classical Chinese language (in which nearly everything written before the 1900's is written). 西遊記 is far from the hardest novel, as it is nothi...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-04, 6:41 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Tobberoth Wrote:Oh I see. Just because I can't read one of the hardest works in Chinese, which even most natives can't understand, I HAVE to think Chinese is hard right? I can't simply say I find Chin...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-04, 6:17 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Tobberoth Wrote:The only reason you felt you had to "call me out" was because you were offended that someone found a language you found hard to be easy. Since when did I say Chinese was difficult? I d...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-04, 5:51 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... wccrawford Wrote:QuackingShoe Wrote:Jesus, that didn't take long. For the inevitable fight, you mean? :D I don't think this was intended as a troll topic, but I don't think a troll could have got peo...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-04, 4:57 pm
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Tobberoth Wrote:The comment that one can learn grammatical rules in Japanese and be done with it proves a very bad grasp of Japanese. Why do you think we enter sentences into Anki and not separate wor...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-04, 6:45 am
	Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Tobberoth Wrote:My experience tells me Mandarin is MUUUUCH easier than Japanese. Of course, I learned Japanese first to it isn't odd that I find Mandarin a peice of cake. You couldn't be more wrong. Y...	Tak47	General discussion	225	39,119	2009-03-04, 5:56 am
	Thread: Heisig's warning at the beginning of Lesson 31...what does it mean? Post: Heisig's warning at the beginning of Lesson 31...w... I don't have the kanji book, but I do have the hanzi one. I believe he means that you should not try to visualize the character as it is written on the page, but imagine the elements as tangible anima...	Tak47	Remembering the Kanji	2	1,146	2009-03-01, 10:16 pm
	Thread: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi Post: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi No one knows, but it could take a while, as the first book was delayed for a long time. Edit: Having finished RTH1, I am going to use Rick Harbaugh's dictionary to learn another 2700+ characters to b...	Tak47	Chinese and Hanzi	57	35,616	2009-02-27, 6:01 pm
	Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... I finally finished RTH1 today! Taking into account that there were a few stretches of 4-5 days that I did not do any cards (review or add new ones), I finished in about 6 weeks. I now need to keep goi...	Tak47	Remembering the Kanji	1,845	424,794	2009-02-26, 6:23 pm
	Thread: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi Post: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi I have almost completed Remembering Traditional Hanzi volume 1 and wouldn't mind contributing my stories. I wonder if Fabrice knows a way to mass-add stories (1,000+).	Tak47	Chinese and Hanzi	57	35,616	2009-02-15, 6:47 pm
	Thread: Why are there "report"s on all of these kanji? Post: Why are there "report"s on all of these kanji? I try not to make any erotic (or profane) stories when I am making mnemonic stories for personal use, but if I am in a really tight spot and can't think of anything else I might use one. I just don't ...	Tak47	General discussion	26	7,000	2009-01-19, 5:04 am
	Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! I am using Remembering Traditional Hanzi since I am studying Chinese. I only have 6 more to go before I reach 600! I learned 81 so far today. This is really great since I forgot how to write most of t...	Tak47	Remembering the Kanji	526	167,182	2009-01-19, 2:26 am

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