::headdesk:: chinese. argh.

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TONE SHIFTS.

dude, no WONDER I was getting so confused with the accents. asklhdfukjh.

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[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Japanese does my head in more than enough, I don't think I'd ever consider trying Chinese!

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XD You sorta know half of it already, no?

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

It's always fascinating, actually, to see how the uses of the kanji have drifted - the areas the meanings are the same, and where they've changed. But that's a passing interest and doesn't involve trying to learn how to speak it XD. Plus Japanese gives additional hints by tacking useful things like verb endings and noun markers onto the kanji!

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but verbs make things difficult! they change yanno! Chinese just has lots of adverbs. _{which, granted, all 'sound the same', buuuuuut ::wry grin::}

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

But I'm used to verb endings that change, every language I've ever dealt with has them. Okay, you have to actually learn them, which sucks a bit, but I wouldn't know where to start with a language without them!

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details! ;D

[franzeska]

Yeah, but Chinese grammar is massively easier than Japanese grammar. (For a speaker of English anyway.)

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I have more motivation to struggle with the Japanese, though, in the form of my love of manga and doujinshi XD