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Feb 25 |
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How can I pronounce 绿 (lü4 - green)? Just in case you weren't aware: The vowel phonemes in "book" (ʊ) and "fool" (u) are different, and in English many pronounce ʊ without much rounding. |
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Feb 21 |
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Why do Chinese translations of English names sound very inaccurate? Do you have an example of a translation coming from Japanese? |
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Feb 8 |
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Is there a lot of value in learning to write Chinese characters? I think you're confusing memorization (learning how to reproduce something) and recognition. The question is not whether writing will help you memorize. It seems pretty obvious that it will. It's not even whether writing (compared to doing nothing) will help you recognize. It seems pretty obvious that it will too. The question is: Given that your main goal is NOT writing (by hand), is your time better spent writing or doing something else? |
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Feb 8 |
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Is there a lot of value in learning to write Chinese characters? @XièJìléi, you might think that everybody goes through the cognitive process text->sound->meaning when reading English, but that is far from the whole truth. The brains of people who read often will learn to shortcut the process, skipping the sound step, thereby making the reader able to read by skimming. Whether the fact that English orthography is more phonetic than Chinese orthography makes this process rarer or less efficient, I don't know. I just wanted to highlight that the process you describe takes place in English as well. |
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Feb 7 |
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What is that use of 得? How about 获得 and 取得? I believe these are also not descriptive-complement examples. |
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Feb 7 |
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What is that use of 得? Is this not an example of a verb-verb compound? In Chinese verb-object compounds occur in this order, so I don't think it can be parsed with a noun reading of 记. |
